The Mandarin Lip Reading Game Goes Wrong
Mandarin lip reading melts our brains.
Mandarin Monkey Podcast · Mandarin Monkey Ltd
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Show Notes
We skip the small talk and jump straight into chaos. One of us wears noise-cancelling headphones with brown noise blasting. The other says sentences in Mandarin and English. The goal is simple. Lip read the line. No clues. No questions.
The results are a mess. “You squeezed it before I was ready,” becomes cheesecake. 羊羹 becomes “some kind of rat.” Twice becomes twat. And a totally normal Chinese sentence turns into Argentina.
If you enjoy Mandarin learning mixed with confusion, misread lips, and unearned confidence, this game delivers.
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