Recently, News Weekly reports that many American people like to learn Chinese through watching TV.

  In a science fiction TV drama Firefly, China cooperate with US in the future world. In this play, many Chinese words are added into English dialogues. In the dialogues, there are various Chinese words ranged from “talent” to “bad egg”. This TV drama has become a hot BT downloading play.

  Currently, the American movie fans whose mother tongue is English often discuss new Chinese words which they find in TV drama in online forums or chat rooms. Over there, they also exchange what they have learned.

  There even some Chinese language learners set up their own Chinese-learning website. James, a Chinese language learner, put the Chinese words that appear in the TV drama on his website by episode, and marked with Chinese Pingyin and English explanation. James also collects the Chinese words which he has seen on the label or dress and he has listened in the TV play. He sorts these words and marks if it is simplified Chinese characters or traditional Chinese characters and if it is Chinese mandarin or Chinese dialect.

  Susan, a Britain language expert, said that the most interesting thing is the Chinese that haven’t been translated and explained in the play. Currently, Susan together with other people is co-writing a book about the usage of Chinese in this play. She said, “The play Firefly shows the future that is Chinese and English world. Chinese is a kind of prestigious mainstream language. Although there are Chinese dialogues that have not translation and explanation, this TV play successfully brings forth the future’s possibility, and it also brings forth challenge to the audiences who only know English.”

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