是男孩还是女孩
“if a pregnant woman is carrying a boy or a girl.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
让幼童辨出怀胎妇人肚中
“where a young child can tell”
是男孩还是女孩
“if a pregnant woman is carrying a boy or a girl.”
要不要试试
“Want to try?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In traditional Chinese folklore, children are believed to possess natural spiritual intuition capable of discerning the gender of a fetus before birth.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
is it... or...
The standard grammatical pattern for forming an alternative question in spoken Chinese.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I'm curious what kind of guy”
“plenty of girls would like him.”
“I had been born a boy.”
“Probably a woman, right?”
“Is he your husband or boyfriend? Is that child yours? What are you talking about?”
“It has nothing to do with being a kid”