How I coached Eliza Coupe's Chinese in the film "Shanghai Calling"

For more video lessons on Chinese pronunciation and tones, please check out http://www.yoyochinese.com. Also, checkout the homepage of "Shanghai Calling"- (http://www.shanghaicalling.com) for more information.

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[pinyinhead]

Yangyang are you even Chinese??? I have many Chinese customers but none of them look like you. lol

[sloppycheng]

Yes, I'm full Chinese. hehe. :)

[irishpolyglot]

Great job! Shared this video on twitter/Facebook with over 10,000 language learning followers. Checking out your other videos!

[sloppycheng]

Thanks a lot Benny! Your channel is amazing!

[yeroca]

This idea was very well presented, but I'm not really convinced it's a good way to learn to speak Chinese generally. I think it might be good to learn fixed phrases, lines in a play, lines in a poem, etc. but I'm not sure it will help during conversation where you are having to form sentences on the fly.

[sloppycheng]

I agree with you that this may not be the best way to learn to speak Chinese generally, but I think for a few phrases and sentences here and there that don't completely conform to grammar or simply don't make much sense to you , this may serve as a shortcut!

[gino19866]

golly gosh! who's that guy?he's so adorable!!!

[nsrdhani93]

*o* osm...actually it's quite OOT...how could chinese ppl can access youtube?since in china as far I know the youtube's blocked?*srry,i'm just curious or mybe it connect to weibo or something* Thx anywy..u're really great chinese teacher!^^ jia you..

[1Thousandtrees]

lol yangyang you look like my cousin :) 

[Jester Angel]

im going to wath this movie...



[Bob Urlich]

Why isn't pinyin dumped as a romanization?It makes little sense and is so far removed from how english is actually pronounced.The transliteration that you used to help Eliza approximates the sounds so much better.Most other asian languages like Cantonese,Japanese and Korean use romanizations that make sense.Foreigners would learn much quicker if pinyin was dumped.I always felt the reason they don't dump it is mainly for political reasons.Everyone knows it's NOT the most efficient system.

[Amy Leung]

Yangyang, ur English is really good. Could u pls hare with us how u learn English?

[Guangyi Chen]

你真是个好老师， 好友毅力啊



[Guangyi Chen]

不拍电影 也能成为名人

[xyzno1]

I so totally agree a great deal....I actually watch this to improve my English. Thank you very much, Yangyang. Hehe.

[fei Yu]

我发现看你的节目对学英语挺有帮助的