I'm Derek McNamara, an Irish guy who was working in Dalian, China as an Oral English teacher in Dalian Maritime University.Now in Chengdu studying Chinese in Southwest University of Finance and Economics

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom/My Name Is Yu Ming/我的名字是于明

I heard about this short film a long time ago, but I only found it now! I've been wanting to see it for ages (That's Irish English BTW)

The film starts as follows: a Chinese shop worker, bored with his life in China, randomly picks a country and learns their language a he plans to go there to live. The country he randomly chose was Ireland and the language he learned was Irish. Little did the chap know that all but a few people (who live in Irish-speaking areas known as Gaeltachts (Gaeltachtaí to be exact)) speak English and can't understand Irish, cos they forgot all they learned at school. Anyway, watch for yourselves. It's a touching piece and deals with the topic of the attitude of the Irish towards the Irish language in an interesting way.


2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yo Derek, did you see your copycat site: www.thegreatblogofchina.com sheessh the nerve!

btw, all your archive links are broken. yes i'm that bored to go testing the links on your site ;)

enjoy your next semester!

owen

5:43 PM, March 05, 2008

 
Anonymous Kay said...

I LOVE "Yu Ming is Ainm Dom"!
I had the same thing, where I heard about it but didn't get to see it for ages. In the end I found it on YouTube (not such good quality).

3:28 AM, May 13, 2008

 

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