Comments on: Chinese New Year Line Dance http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2010/03/02/chinese-new-year-line-dance Try to Understand China. Learn Chinese. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Eric http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2010/03/02/chinese-new-year-line-dance#comment-21806 Eric Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:12:14 +0000 http://www.sinosplice.com/?p=4199#comment-21806 <p>This is so funny. I am a lion dance coach in Oregon. I have had this same conversation so many times in the past month. We have been very busy this year. At lease one performance every day of the new year. We have a dragon now too. I get less confused looks if I say Chinese lion and dragon dance.</p> This is so funny. I am a lion dance coach in Oregon. I have had this same conversation so many times in the past month. We have been very busy this year. At lease one performance every day of the new year. We have a dragon now too. I get less confused looks if I say Chinese lion and dragon dance.

]]> By: light487 http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2010/03/02/chinese-new-year-line-dance#comment-21745 light487 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:22:09 +0000 http://www.sinosplice.com/?p=4199#comment-21745 <p>Hehe.. That's a good one. The most recent one of these I can think of is when my friend, who is from Suzhou but has been in Australia for 3 and a bit years, was talking to me about "aging" people. I can't remember exactly how the conversation started or the exact words that were used but what she was really saying was "asian" :)</p> <p>What tends to trip me up the most is when she, or another Chinese speaker, suddenly switches from speaking Chinese to speaking English within the same conversation. There I am trying to translate in my head these completely new words/sounds that I have never heard of; trying to work out the meaninfg based on the context of the rest of the conversations.</p> <p>Then they say something like "am I saying that right?", thinking that it is they who are making the mistake with their pronunciation of English and then it dawns on me that they were speaking English and everything suddenly makes sense.</p> <p>It's like the whole world gets out of synch for few moments while we reorient ourselves with each other. :) ahhh! The wonders of language barriers! :)</p> Hehe.. That’s a good one. The most recent one of these I can think of is when my friend, who is from Suzhou but has been in Australia for 3 and a bit years, was talking to me about “aging” people. I can’t remember exactly how the conversation started or the exact words that were used but what she was really saying was “asian” :)

What tends to trip me up the most is when she, or another Chinese speaker, suddenly switches from speaking Chinese to speaking English within the same conversation. There I am trying to translate in my head these completely new words/sounds that I have never heard of; trying to work out the meaninfg based on the context of the rest of the conversations.

Then they say something like “am I saying that right?”, thinking that it is they who are making the mistake with their pronunciation of English and then it dawns on me that they were speaking English and everything suddenly makes sense.

It’s like the whole world gets out of synch for few moments while we reorient ourselves with each other. :) ahhh! The wonders of language barriers! :)

]]> By: Nathan Cain - MandarinMnemonics.com http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2010/03/02/chinese-new-year-line-dance#comment-21736 Nathan Cain - MandarinMnemonics.com Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:10:55 +0000 http://www.sinosplice.com/?p=4199#comment-21736 <p>That is so cute!</p> That is so cute!

]]> By: Robin http://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2010/03/02/chinese-new-year-line-dance#comment-21724 Robin Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:24:00 +0000 http://www.sinosplice.com/?p=4199#comment-21724 <p>I went to a Valentine's Day ball the day before Lunar New Year this year, and we really did do a line dance! Funnily enough, right outside the ballroom, the Vietnamese Student Association was holding an event featuring lion dance :D</p> I went to a Valentine’s Day ball the day before Lunar New Year this year, and we really did do a line dance! Funnily enough, right outside the ballroom, the Vietnamese Student Association was holding an event featuring lion dance :D

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