{"id":3157,"date":"2014-06-10T00:41:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T07:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/?p=3157"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:38:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T15:38:49","slug":"learning-chinese-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/learning-chinese-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Chinese over 3\u00c2\u00bd Months | 12-Min Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/97714437\" width=\"500\" height=\"229\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As we did with Spain and Brazil, we filmed a short documentary chronicling our experiences learning Chinese over a little more than three months. Vat also spent hundreds of hours doing timelapses, hyperlapses and videos to try to capture a different perspective on what life is like in China. We both felt that the China we saw wasn&#8217;t always portrayed that way in Western media, so we wanted to try to capture our experiences of the largest, oldest and possibly soon-to-be most powerful culture in the world.<\/p>\n<p>For my Chinese readers, unfortunately, Vimeo is blocked in China. Never fear, we&#8217;ve made a special Chinese version of the video that we&#8217;ve uploaded to YouKu. This one has Chinese subtitles so it will make it a bit easier to follow along despite the many mistakes we made in Chinese. 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