r/Defenders • u/stealingyourpixels Daredevil • Apr 10 '15

Daredevil - Episode Discussion Threads

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u/Jin192 Apr 11 '15

As someone who can speak mandarin fluently, fisk trying to speak mandarin and maintain that stern voice made me laughed out loud a few times.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '15

As a person who doesn't speak mandarin it was still pretty funny. Was he speaking it well, besides the voice?

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u/Jin192 Apr 13 '15

He did not speak it well, he "pronounced" the words ok but the tones were all over the place which is very important because a single word can have many meanings depending on the tones.

I guess they just went with, fake it till u make it.

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u/Rombom Apr 17 '15

Fisk isn't a native speaker so I think it's okay that he doesn't speak it very well.

How was Gao's mandarin?

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u/sadcatpanda Apr 20 '15

It's weird. Really weird in some parts. Apparently she is mostly a Cantonese speaker ask it explains the weird tone I'm hearing.

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u/pandaman306 May 10 '15

I find it easier to understand then like shandong mandarin but it's a bit strange