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- eric - Jan 23 2007 | china, beijing, chinese, street, interview, language barrier, language, translation
Found this clip in the new Blue Dot video rollup. Nice! I'd never heard of the show "Sexy Beijing" but it's apparently a transplanted American talking about her experiences in Beijing. In this episode, she asks people on the streets about their "English names" with some pretty funny results.
Smacker!
I love this video. Su Fei (Sophie), a westerner, walks the streets of Beijing asking people if they have an English name, and why.
It's so impressive to see a westerner apparently so fluent in Chineese, too.
[the intro - filmed in the style of Sex in the City - is really good too]
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This certainly takes me back to when I was in Beijing.
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Cool! I love the name Smacker, and I like the guy with the nametag labeled "Susan." Hilarious.
I had a friend in Hong Kong whose name was Genius, and his girlfriend's name was Purple. My other friend was named Audi and his sister was Mercedes. Gotta love it.