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POSTED BY: SAHARA
UPDATED: Thursday, February 8, 2007 12:11
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Thursday, February 8, 2007 11:06 AM

SAHARA

It's Mandarin they speak (or try to speak

) in FF, yes?

Sahara
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Thursday, February 8, 2007 11:56 AM

DONCOAT

Yes, with one exception.

In "Out of Gas", the automated voice that says "Warning! Life Support Malfunction!" (or the equivalent) repeats the warning in Cantonese. This was an unintentional mixup due to using a fill-in translator.

*Darn! I thought this was gonna be a thread about Olympic track & field athletes from Beijing.*

By the way, my nephew has lived and worked in China and speaks Chinese pretty well for a barbarian. According to him, Mandarin IS Chinese. Any other dialect isn't. And he also says that "try to speak" is a good way to put it.

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Thursday, February 8, 2007 12:11 PM

SAHARA

Well, I recently got a car with a CD player and I've been getting books on CD for my son and I to listen to while we're in the car (he LOVED Animal Farm, we're listening to Star Wars Ep III right now with Brave New World on deck) and my library carries language CDs. They have Mandarin and Cantonese on CD, so I thought I'd give one a shot. I just needed to know which one!

Sorry my post's not about the Olympics. But I do have a cousin trying out for the US Rowing Team. Is that close enough?

Thanks for the info.

Sahara
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