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Speaka EnglishPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, July 9, 2008 6:51 PM
If you're in Beijing this Thursday July 10, the premier screening of a documentary called Mad about English, about Chinese people learning and speaking English. The Beijing screening this Thursday starts at 7pm at the following address: 7G Building 4 Merlin Garden See the film's web page (Chinese) for more information or phone 8855 0623 for details about the screening. |
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Comments on Speaka English
笑死我了，实在太好玩儿。网上会不会有下载版本？
The Beijing policeman at the end of this clip is Officer Liu Wenli. He works at Jingshan Park and appeared on CNN yesterday doing a similar bit for reporter Emily Chang.
South China Morning Post has a free video of him demonstrating his greetings to tourists in several foreign languages:
http://olympics.scmp.com/Article.aspx?id=460
yay, i am going to watch it :)
真是awesome啊！！
好可爱兼sb的人民。
stoneking,
你妈了个比的,你骂到我了,你个呆比国的.
I shattered!
I think I never laughed so well in months! It's the first time I see great movie-reportage combination in china in an american comedy sense, with true beijing flair!! I need to see this movie!