那跟去北京上大学 有什么不一样
“and there's no difference between that and going to university in Beijing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你哥也说了 就是去新加坡上大学
“Ling Xiao also said that he is going to university in Singapore”
那跟 去北京上大学 有什么不一样
“and there's no difference between that and going to university in Beijing.”
都是飞三四个小时的 你说 这跟以前
“It takes three or four hours to fly to both the places. That makes”
“There is no difference at all, so stop worrying about the distance.”
Chinese parents often worry deeply when a child leaves home for college; comparing a foreign destination like Singapore to a major domestic hub like Beijing helps normalize the distance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
how is it any different from...
Used as a rhetorical question to argue that two things are essentially the same.
to attend university / go to college
The standard colloquial verb-object phrase for going to college.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“with Ling Xiao?”
“he could've gone to any school in Beijing.”
“We've agreed to go to college in Beijing.”
“to university,”
“I'm going to get into a university in Beijing. I'll go to Peking University.”
“Still, why were you chosen, though?”