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:
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
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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