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By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:21:16 +0000

He’s a friend of ours, and he had about two hours to think about it before he answered (he was over for dinner). PLus he really wanted to do it. Also, he used to be a Mandarin teacher at our school before he got a job with a bank, so when he speaks Chinese to us it’s always really clear.

His fiancee graduated from Wheaton.

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:45:53 +0000

GREAT lu shang de fangwen! Actually I DID learn some new words from this little video. It’s the first time I’ve heard your Chinese, Joel (I’m assuming that was you) and it sounds great!

Whoever that last guy (Wheaton shirt) is, was he reading or just riffing? Is he on staff with the Beijing Olympic Committee? So very elegant and professional sounding, not to mention the easiest Mandarin in the clip to understand (and used a phrase from the song I’m posting in a few hours: quan shijie de muguang).

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:27:13 +0000

yeah well, just don't forget that to Chinese people, our Chinese sounds something like this.

By: ruthie

ruthie — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:48:28 +0000

wow.. joel.. that was GREAT! thanks for putting all that together.. all those sweet people make me wish i could come over.. but i would rather wait until after the olympics when all the foreigners were gone :)

they all see so nice!

(OH.. it was cool to hear you speaking Chinese!)