Chinese Executive videos from Univ. of Texas

orkelm

June 15, 2007 at 04:13 PM posted in General Discussion

First of all, excuse the shameful self promotion. (I figure, however, since c-pod folks are used to Aric's Texas-style self promotion--gonna miss you on the Saturday Show Aric-- and since I'm at the Univ. of Texas too, ya'll might understand where we're coming from.)

Anyway, our website is used in our courses for Business Chinese, specifically on the cultural aspects of doing business. The website has over 200 quicktime video clips of interviews from Chinese-speaking executives (both Mainland and Taiwan). All of the video clips are transcribed (traditional, simplfied, and pinyin) and translated into English. The cultural information is cool, but even better is the chance to hear real speech from real people saying real things in Mandarin. Check it out.

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/orkelm/chinese/index.html

Hope you like it,

Orlando

calicartel

January 10, 2010 at 04:33 PM

I've been going over those clips for some time. They fill a gap in that they contain improvised speech (with repetitions, unfinished sentences, plenty of uh, eh etc.). Many non-standard accents are represented. What about setting up a group about those interviews?

bento

July 11, 2007 at 06:39 AM

this site "tá falado", it is great... I've met a handful of americans who already knew spanish and it has always been tiresome to explain to them the differences between spanish and portuguese!

If i only got it sooner, it would have saved me a lot of trouble!

About the "confessions of love" comentary.

I actually speak portuguese, you know. Some years ago, when i heard she saying "mi é dodo na bo" i knew what each word in the sentence meant. But languages differ in the ways they use to express the same idea. So, in spanish one would say "te quiero", not meaning "i want you", but rather "i love you". Also the african crioulo "mi é dodo na bo" means rather "i love you" than "i'm crazy about you".

billybobjoebobwilly

June 23, 2007 at 02:49 PM

Hi Dave, Orkelm, I can tell you the problem with Quicktime, it's Quicktime itself.. Gosh, in all the years of working with Computers Quicktime has been the worst thorn in my side. Mpeg (mpg) is better (in my opinion).

NE way, the site is great!!! I'm loving the "Pushing American" section. Thanks Orkelm!!

orkelm

June 22, 2007 at 10:41 PM

Thanks John, btw, I do like Sinosplice for the description of j, q, x, zhi, chi, shi, etc. I'm still trying to get those right.

John

June 19, 2007 at 02:57 AM

Wow, this is pretty cool! I like it.

dave

June 18, 2007 at 01:15 PM

Thanks Orkelm; I got it fixed. For some reason the videos just take an extremely long time to load up. They are still great though!

LaoBa

June 17, 2007 at 07:20 PM

A great resource indeed. Duoxie le!

orkelm

June 17, 2007 at 07:15 PM

I've received a few email requests asking if we have the same video materials in other languages. Besides Chinese I also have similar video interviews in Portuguese, Spanish, German, and Japanese. Easiest would be to go to my homepage.

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/orkelm/kelm.htm

Dave, send me a personal email and I'll pass the info on to Eric (my tech support guru). He might be able to identify what's going on.