Firefly Chinese with pinyin and characters

POSTED BY: ffying2
UPDATED: Sunday, October 29, 2006 18:07
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FFYING2

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:48 PM

Howdy all.

Using the shooting scripts and the fine translating that folks have done here and elsewhere, I've been compiling the pinyin romanization and Chinese characters for Firefly's Mandarin.

Thus:

FIREFLY CHINESE PINYINARY
[NEW URL] http://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net

I've also included some of the Chinese you can see in the background of the show and some resources.

Come on by.

Ying
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TASS

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:53 PM

Way cool ... now all I need to is learn pronuciation better.

Tass - where you are is where you are meant to be.

SARAHETC

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 8:57 PM

This is remarkable! This is the most fantastic resource! I'm only on the F section and already I'm making lists for people to email this link to. Can I link to it extensively?

You've even got the really, really tricky ones on there that I thought people would never figure out. Knowing now what "Fang zong feng kuang de jie" means exactly gives that scene more impact.

This is just great! It is super fantastic!

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

SHINY

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:03 PM

Great job, Ffying! Very shiny!

RIVER
Purple elephants are flying.
MAL
Good. Thanks for the update.

FFYING2

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tass:
now all I need to is learn pronuciation better.

Me too, but I guess so do our Big Damn Heroes. ;)

Ying

CHANNAIN

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:38 PM

I think you just elevated yourself to big damn hero status - this is super shiny!

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FFYING2

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Sarahetc:
This is remarkable! This is the most fantastic resource! I'm only on the F section and already I'm making lists for people to email this link to. Can I link to it extensively?

Xiexie.

Link away. I started this a year ago just for me and for bits on my other site, but the shooting scripts were the mother lode, so I thought I'd share. I know it's not perfect because I know very little Mandarin grammar. Coming from a student-of-Japanese background, I've been more of a characters/vocab. person.

Quote:
Knowing now what "Fang zong feng kuang de jie" means exactly gives that scene more impact.

Yeah, we could all figure out Dong ma?, but they should have subtitled the long, more important ones.

Ying

PUNKINPUSS

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 9:49 PM

This is just brilliant! So shiny and cool! Thank you!

I know a bit of Cantonese, but the Mandarin pronounciations always throw me so this is such a treat to have this as a reference. Plus, cursing in foreign languages, hey, that's just fun fun fun!

punkinpuss

TASS

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:03 PM

I was just talking to one of my coworkers and he was amazed at how well you did... (most of my coworkers are from China or Hong Hong... such is TO)

His only comment so far was with:
fahng-tzong fung-kwong duh jeh
he said he would have done it as
fahng-jhong fung-kwong duh jeh
based on how most NorthAmericans proncounce letter sets. (Not many know how to do 'tz')

Tass - where you are is where you are meant to be.

SAINT JAYNE

Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:09 PM

This is most excellent, Ffying2! They aught to write a folk hero song for you.

I wonder if any of the actors/actresses had good pronunciation in Chinese? It would be a lot easier learning these phrases if we could listen to the proper pronunciation.

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