the mochinamochina blog with Chinese Pinyin

Hey everyone!

It’s been a while since I updated this site.

Many users have requested they want a different movie and a physical DVD.

I realize the previous “Lost in Beijing” videos are a bit “edgy”. This new movie is an older film dubbed “The Greatest Chinese Film Ever” about a woman with quite the love dilemma. It suitable for all ages (even Children).

This product is much better than anything found on this site. Why?

* You get two physical DVDs sent to you
* One DVD can even be played in any DVD player. It comes a variety of removable subtitles (8 different options). So, if you just want Pinyin subtitles, just select “Play with Pinyin Subtitles”. If you want Pinyin and English subtitles, just select “Play with Pinyin and English Subtitles”. And so on.

The other DVD includes:

* Thirty videos with “hard subtitles” for your iPhone, PSP, whatever (each video is 5 minutes long)
* Character Writing Program (type or copy a Chinese character and the program writes it for you using the correct brush-stroke order
*Mouse-over Chinese program which works with MSN. When someone writes to you on msn in Chinese, mouse-over what they wrote and up pops the Pinyin and English.
* A manual about how to find a Chinese person online for language exchange and practice chatting to them (in Chinese) on MSN for FREE. Using Chinese on MSN everyday skyrocketed my Chinese level.
* A manual to show you how easy it is to type Chinese on your computer (if I knew it was so easy, I would have started typing Chinese as soon as I started learning it).
* The best Chinese-English English-Chinese dictionaries ever.
* How to put a Chinese-English dictionary on your phone. The dictionary also has pinyin for every entry.

But it now!

Lets compare for a minute this product against the top-selling Chinese Language Learning Products: 1) Fluenz Chinese and 2) Rosetta Stone Chinese

1) Fluenz Chinese (fluenz.com): all flash, no substance. I wouldn’t use it even if it were free.

*No Chinese characters, Pinyin only! What does this mean? You can’t read Chinese on MSN, you can’t read Chinese emails. You come to China and Can’t read Chinese! (in China, it is rare to find Pinyin anywhere).

* Your Chinese “teacher” is a white girl with absolutely terrible tones! Especially her 4th tones - sounds like she’s shouting, this is what amateurs do. And she’s your teacher for the program?

* Numerous errors and glitches in the program - many times giving you the wrong answer to the exercises.

* 320USD for this? What a joke.

2) Rosetta Stone. Very few English translations and explanations. And a very outdated language learning software.

* Mainly pictures paired up with Chinese and Pinyin (no English). So, they would have a pictures of a chair and have 椅子 yĭ zi beside it. And that’s about it, a bunch of pictures with Chinese and no English.
* It’s been at least 4 years since Rosetta Stone Chinese has been updated. In other words, it’s completed outdated and boring.

Enter “Learn Chinese from Movies” DVD Product

You like movies. You like chatting on MSN. Why not learn Chinese while doing these things?

You probably know your favorite English movies line-for-line. How many times did you watch this movie? 5, 10 times? I watched “Fight Club” about 10 times and I know that movie line-for-line. Doesn’t it make sense that you can know a Chinese movie line-for-line after watching it a few times? It does to me, and that’s what I’ve been doing for quite some time.

You want to type Chinese on MSN but think it’s too hard. It’s not. Chinese comes on every English version windows CD. Install Chinese on your computer, select “type Chinese” and then type “nihao” and suddenly “你好” is automatically selected and appears immediately in your MSN message to your friend. How hard was that? You can usually type pinyin for a whole sentence and it will select all the correct characters for you. You don’t even have to think.

How to find someone who wants to chat with you on MSN everyday in Chinese? It sounds simple, but not many Chinese want to speak Chinese with a foreigner, they’d rather try to practice their English no matter how good your Chinese is. After a year of searching the internet, I found out how to find Chinese who would like to chat with you in Chinese. (The method involves a “secret” website and a “secret” search code to find these Chinese members who prefer to speak Chinese with you.)

Learn to read/write/type/speak Chinese with things you already do everyday - watching videos and chatting on MSN. I’d say that’s pretty darn practical.

Interested? Buy it Now.

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Learn Chinese from Chinese Pinyin subtitled movies.

Welcome to mochinamochina.com - the best resource on the internet for learning Chinese. This is the only website (to this date) that contains pinyin subtitles for Chinese movies and videos.

This site has 43 lessons which you can download individually. Each lesson contains:

1. An mp4 video file with Chinese, Pinyin, and English subtitles. (see video below or download here)
2. A PDF Lesson Plan to accompany the video. (click here to view sample Lesson Plan)

With this website, you can download all the lessons and burn your own CD-ROM. Or you can simply learn directly from this site (the video files are not big and download quickly).This site is intended for mature minds. Learners aged 12 and under may not want to use this site. However, I’ve done my best to edit out any extreme language and scenes. All 43 Lesson are listed below. Click on one and start learning Chinese now!Click on a lesson, then download the corresponding mp4 and PDF.

Lesson 01- Paying Employee for Favours
Lesson 02 - At the Massage Parlour
Lesson 03 - Sneaky Girls (update: mp4 working now)
Lesson 04 - Ankun the Spy(update: mp4 working now)
Lesson 05 - Xiaomei the Terrible
Lesson 06 - Getting Smashed
Lesson 07 - Pervert Boss
Lesson 08 - Stop Hitting Yourself
Lesson 09 - Spying Ankun
Lesson 10 - Emotional Distress
Lesson 11 - More Blackmail
Lesson 12 - Infertile WangMei
Lesson 13 - Tit for Tat
Lesson 14 - Dinner with Xiaomei
Lesson 15 - Call him on it
Lesson 16 - Pregnant
Lesson 17 - Go Ahead and Sue Me
Lesson 18 - Big Squabble
Lesson 19 - Negotiation Time
Lesson 20 - Abortion
Lesson 21 - The Contract
Lesson 22 - Team Spirit
Lesson 23 - Meds and Supplements
Lesson 24 - The Kid is Mine
Lesson 25 - Soccer Star
Lesson 26 - Talk to Me
Lesson 27 - Pingguo Pops it Out
Lesson 28 - Bribing the Doctor
Lesson 29 - Money Talks
Lesson 30 - Baby Shower
Lesson 31 - Servants
Lesson 32 - Praying to Buddha
Lesson 33 - Making Breakfast
Lesson 34 - Not at Work
Lesson 35 - Money not in the Bank?
Lesson 36 - Comfortable Massage
Lesson 37 - Crazy Xiaomei
Lesson 38 - Dinner with Xiaomei
Lesson 39 - Horrible Fight
Lesson 40 - Pingguo is Devastated
Lesson 41 - Everyone is Against Me
Lesson 42 - DNA Test Results
Lesson 43 - Let’s Go, Baby

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Watch Mochina Chinese Lessons in High Quality with Youtube. With youtube, you can now view all their videos in “high quality” or “standard quality”. What does this mean for learning Chinese? It means that you clearly see all the Chinese characters and pinyin in the subtitles. Any fuzzy characters that you saw before in any of my previous videos are now much clearer. And to think that I was going to add high quality videos manually to my site. Looks like youtube beat me to it.

To watch my videos in high quality, go to the Learn Chinese from Movies youtube page and click on a video. Below the video, there will be an option to “watch in high quality”. Click on this. No more squinting.

Learn Chinese in 8 Weeks. 100% Money-Back Guarantee. Click Here!

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Write your name in Chinese. Here are some resources and a how-to guide (below) so that you can write you name in Chinese.

Write name in Chinese - mandarintools.com: characters are in GIF format, so you can’t just simply cut and paste it into a text document (unless you know how to type Chinese characters). Click on the Pinyin and you can hear the pronunciation.

Write name in Chinese - chinese-tools.com: More accurate translation of English-Chinese names. It also includes tone marks on the Pinyin and it’s really easy to just copy and paste the Chinese characters because they are not in any picture format.

If you want to write you name in Chinese (ie with a paintbrush or pen and paper), you should download this Chinese character writing tool (free). After you install this tool, you need to use the keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste the Chinese character, ie highlight the character, press “ctrl C”, click on the writing program, press “ctrl V” and the program will start writing the character.

The How-To Guide to Writing Your Name in Chinese

Here is a step-by-step guide to write the name “David” in Chinese.

1. Go here, type in “David” and click search.
2. Look at the search result and highlight the 1st character (大).

3. Copy (ctrl C) this character and paste it into the Estroke Chinese Character Writing program (can download here.)

4. Do the same for the other characters in your name.

5. To pronounce your Chinese name, you can read the Pinyin in Step 2. If you don’t know how to read pinyin, you can see the Pinyin Pronunciation Guide found here.

There you go! Now you can write and pronounce your name in Chinese.

If you have any questions about this, feel free to leave me a comment.

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(NOTE: This article talks about the Chinese meaning of numbers and their Mandarin pronunciation. We will only focus on the Mandarin pronunciation as it is the most popular and is spoken by over 1 billion people. We will not talk about Cantonese or other dialects here.)

Chinese are very superstitious, especially when it comes to numbers. They believe they are lucky numbers and unlucky numbers and that these numbers can be responsible for your success or failure. Chinese therefore want to choose lucky numbers for things such as license plates, drivers license number, street addresses, bank numbers, and especially phone numbers.

Lucky Chinese Numbers and Meanings:

Two

二(Chinese character) èr (pinyin pronunciation) “two“. There is a Chinese saying “good things come in pairs”(好事成双 = hăoshì chéng shuāng). You will see a lot of double symbols in Chinese brand names, such as Double Happiness cigarettes (see below).

(Left pic: on this pack on cigarettes you see the character 喜 (pinyin = xĭ) twice. 喜 can mean “happiness”, so two 喜 can therefore mean double happiness.)

Six

六 (pinyin = liù), six. Six (liù) has similar pronunciation to flowing/smooth (流 = liú) and slippery (溜 = liū).

Eight

八 (pinyin = bā), eight. Eight sounds like prosper or wealth(发 = fā). 发 is short for 发财 = fā cái = get rich (恭喜发财 = gōngxĭ fācái = congratulations and get rich. This phrase it said at Chinese New Year and can mean “happy new year”or “congratulations and best wishes for a prosperous new year”).

The Summer Olympics in Beijing are scheduled to open on 8/8/08 at 8:08:08 pm.

Nine

九 (pinyin = jiŭ), nine. Nine (jiŭ) sounds exactly like 久 (jiǔ) - which means “a long time” or “long lasting”.

Combinations with Chinese Numbers and their Meanings

168 - means “road of prosperity” or to “be prosperous together”. For Chinese, it is considered one of the luckiest numbers. It is found in many business names, such as the one below (pic):

518 (wŭ yào bā) sounds similar to 我要发 wŏ yào fā, which means “I will prosper”.

5189 (wŭ yào bā jiŭ) sounds like 我要发久 wŏ yào fā, which means “I will prosper (for a) long time”.

Unlucky Chinese Numbers and their Meanings

Four

四 (pinyin = sì), four. Four (sì) sounds like 死 (sĭ), which means “death.” Therefore, the number four in not included in many things, such as product models, floor numbers, and many other things.

Seven

Seven is considered spiritual or ghostly. The seventh month of the Chinese calendar is also called the “Ghost Month”. During this month, the gates of hell are said to be open so ghosts and spirits are permitted to visit the living realm. It is not commonly associated with luck.

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Chinese Milk Commercial with NBA Star and Popular Actress.

Once again, I’ll give you the Chinese, Pinyin, and English for this commercial.

In this commercial: Yì Jiànlián (易建联), (Crystal) Liú Yìfēi (刘亦菲), and some other hot girl.

Yì Jiànlián plays for the Milwaukee Bucks and is under contract with Nike, Coke, and Yīlì (伊利, a Chinese milk company) and hence this commercial. More about him here.

Liú Yìfēi, 21, is a hot mama from Wuhan, Hubei, China. She’s an actress and a singer. More info about her here and here.

“我要我的滋味”
“wǒ yāo wǒ de zīwèi ”
“I want my taste.”

阿联在哪里啊? 比赛要开始了
ālián zài nǎli ā ? bǐsài yāo kāishǐ le
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Lesson 43 - Lets Go, Baby

1. Watch/Download Learn Chinese Through Movies - Lesson 43. The video contains Chinese, English, and Pinyin subtitles.
2. Print/View Lesson Plan 43 (includes Chinese, English, Pinyin Dialogue and Key Learning Points)
3. Download this video to your iPod/PSP. (see FAQ for help)

Synopsis: Ankun wants to give back the money, take his baby, and return to his life that he had before. That may prove to be quite difficult; something tells me that Pingguo doesn’t really like him anymore.

What to do now? Click here for practicing and studying Chinese and what to do after each lesson.

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Lesson 42 - DNA Test Results

1. Watch/Download Learn Chinese Through Movies - Lesson 42. The video contains Chinese, English, and Pinyin subtitles.
2. Print/View Lesson Plan 42 (includes Chinese, English, Pinyin Dialogue and Key Learning Points)
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Synopsis: The boss discovers the true identity of the child and cannot accept it.

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Lesson 41 - Everyone is against me

1. Watch/Download Learn Chinese Through Movies - Lesson 41. The video contains Chinese, English, and Pinyin subtitles.
2. Print/View Lesson Plan 41 (includes Chinese, English, Pinyin Dialogue and Key Learning Points)
3. Download this video to your iPod/PSP. (see FAQ for help)

Synopsis: The boss thinks his wife and Pingguo are part of the blackmail scheme. He then calls the police to find the kidnapped child.

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Lesson 40 - Pingguo is Devastated

1. Watch/Download Learn Chinese Through Movies - Lesson 40. The video contains Chinese, English, and Pinyin subtitles.
2. Print/View Lesson Plan 40 (includes Chinese, English, Pinyin Dialogue and Key Learning Points)
3. Download this video to your iPod/PSP. (see FAQ for help)

Synopsis: Pingguo’s vents her frustrations on her Boss. She is in a very tough situation.

What to do now? Click here for practicing and studying Chinese and what to do after each lesson.

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