The Two Chinese Characters are John B. Weinstein & Carsey Yee and they rock!
If you don’t know how to pronounce “Beijing,” and really even if you do, you should check out this wonderful informational video they put out to educate and entertain.
My Mandarin is kind of rusty so I’m looking forward to more lessons from these two characters in the future… I wonder if they take requests for words/phrases to teach us???
That was entirely wholesome.
Though for some reason, I was reminded of a spoof of learning Cantonese called “The Queen’s English” about learning Cantonese words that you’ll never hear in a conversational Cantonese class!
i still want someone to tell me how to say, “your breath smells like ass.” think they’d do it since you wouldn’t let me ask your mom?
Now that is a useful phrase to know, in all languages, yoshi. If you happen to be in the middle of Norway, and someone whom is near you has breath that smells like ass, it would be really convenient to know that phrase in Norwegian, for example.
I also didn’t know that about Beijing. I pronounced it with the French-sounding “shzhe”, not the definite “j”. Now I am informed.