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Street scenes in the Sichuan dialect

Jonathan Kott (aka Jiang Nan) walks the streets of Chengdu speaking the local vernacular. tbjblog has more about this local celebrity.

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Your sichuan Chinese is very good.

i bet he gets all the sichuan girls he desires

Takes me back to my time in Ba-Shu. I never pulled the accent off very convincingly but it definitely helped you get understood some places to say, e.g., "haa" instead of a putonghua "xia".

LMAO. Nan Ge really sounds like someone originally from Yunnan or Guizhou.
川普 rules the world!!

I don't understand why Jonathan Kott is going to one of those ubiquitous Lanzhou noodle restaurants for a video about Sichuan dialect on the streets of Chengdu. The Chinese people at Lanzhou La Mian are speaking Mandarin to him and probably not aware that he's even using Sichuan dialect.
Also, Chinese high school girls are notoriously camera shy and wouldn't talk much to him anyway even if he didn't have an eight inch microphone in his hand.
This video would have been much better if he had taken his camera crew to a traditional Chengdu teahouse instead of wasting time at Lanzhou La Mian. There needs to be much more interaction with real Sichuan natives, and less time talking to himself or to cars in the parking lot.

I spoke fluent trailer trash in the US of A but nobody done gone put me on TV.

He speaks Sichuan well because that's how he learned the entire language and is the accent he learned from the beginning. Only in China can a dorky ass whiteboy who probably couldn't get laid to save his life in his home country go on TV and become a celebrity.

to James, aidsmonkey, and people of their ilk:

please, at least try to mask the projection of your frustrations onto others. it's a bit pitiful to watch.

besides, he's a comedian! and they're not usually tall, strikingly handsome jocks. i don't know if he writes his own material, but sometimes it's quite funny - in a cheezy way - and he's got good comedic timing.

南仔说四川话很棒~:D

Aidsmonkey, have you considered Springer? No offense, but "fluent trailer trash" and TV time just bring out Jerry Springer for me, and I just have to comment.
on the subject of Sichuanese , here is one:
四川话听力测试(中级)Sichuanese Listening Test
link

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