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Has anyone watched the Yao Ming interviews at rockets.com?

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by carayip, Jan 14, 2003.

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  1. carayip

    carayip Member

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    The site address:
    http://www.nba.com/rockets/news/bighour021221.html

    Is it just me or Yao's Mandarin is hard to understand? I could understand 80% of what that reporter said but only about 50% of Yao. Does he have heavy Shanghai dialect or what?
     
    #1 carayip, Jan 14, 2003
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    i got the same problem too, although i live in hong kong and can't speak any mandarin, i could hear the reporter fine but can hardly pickup anything yao's said.:rolleyes:
     
    #2 kelsey_tam, Jan 14, 2003
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    I can understand him 100%. Yao actually speaks madarin more like a person from Northern China than from Shanghai.

    Shrimpie
     
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    His mandarin actually has a heavy Beijing accent from living and playing their most of his adult life.
     
    #4 oj411, Jan 14, 2003
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    The 56k version has very low audio quality. Try listening to the 300k version. Much clearer. And Yao speaks the standard mandarin. Of course the reporter speaks much clearly compared to Yao. That's his job.
     
    #5 zhaozhilong, Jan 14, 2003
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    yea Yao mumbles sometimes
     
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    I found out some of the questions were really stupid. From my point, that reporter was worse than Yao. sometimes he didnot state his questions clearly
     
    #7 actigraph, Jan 14, 2003
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    that reporter should come from taiwan or hongkong ~

    definitely not from mainland
     
    #8 tch, Jan 14, 2003
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    He is actually a taiwanese American. From Taiwan and been living in Houston for the last 12 years.
     
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    Man, if you don't understand Yao's Chinese, your listening comprehension needs serious improvement. I lived in Beijing for a long time, and I understand his Chinese perfectly, even he's not from Beijing.

    BTW, that reporter asked so many meaningless questions, and Yao was getting really irritated toward the end.
     
    #10 jamalccc, Jan 15, 2003
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    yao looked really bored......and sometimes give 1 liner answers with no elaborations
     
    #11 jh811, Jan 15, 2003
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    Well maybe that's because Mandarin is not my mother tongue so I can relate to a non-native speaker more than a native speaker. :eek:
     
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    Hey guys, do you know if there are any translations for the interviews? Unfortunately, I don't speak and understand Mandarin very well. I speak Fukienese though.
     
    #13 RedDragon, Jan 15, 2003
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    Ò¦Ã÷ is really fatter than before.
    The reporter can't express his ideas clearly and seems to be so interested in Chinese food and Yao's driving skills.
     
    #14 Daisy, Jan 15, 2003
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    There is really nothing new in that interview. If you don't understand mandarin, you didn't miss anything.

    Shrimpie
     
    #15 Shrimpie, Jan 15, 2003
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    Yeah the reporter didn't even know what he wanted to ask sometimes and Yao Ming looked pissed off,
     
    #16 carayip, Jan 15, 2003
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