nick’s (n)-line life

In the past, my prolific Youtube browsing has yielded some interesting results for China-related interest and language study. Today, however, I came across a video that comes in as my greatest youtube find to date. Looking at the 7 month old date stamp, I’m probably horribly behind, but I was still excited to find out about “Sexy Beijing”, the video is about the trials and tribulations of a foreign women looking to find a partner in Beijing. I was highly entertained and pleased to be able to understand some of the conversation. Check it out:

I’m probably influenced by its similarity to a 10 minute snippet of Sex and the City (something I also reluctantly admit to liking). However, unlike Sex and the City I can legitimately claim that watching this show is educational… I get to practice listening and reading and even managed to learn some new vocab (I particularly liked “谈恋爱” ). To my delight, it turns out that far from being an isolated spoof, the Sexy Beijing tag is part of a series of highly entertaining Youtube shows produced by DanWei TV (do a You Tube search).

I should really thank Mandarin Student for putting me onto this (see more). Now that I think about it, I was actually quite impressed to see how his site has developed since I last went there about a year ago. I’d now highly recommended it as both an entertainment and learning resource. In fact seeing as much of my time is spent doing mandarin related things these days, he got me thinking that it would be fun to run some more language related articles here… he’s almost given me the course to attempt to write a few entries in Chinese too… like I say: almost.. !

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