Ni-hao Kai-Lan

[Pat the Great]

anyone else catch this? i guess it's like a chinese Dora the Explorer on Nick Jr. I wanna watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IubQRg4pCwk

[lopan]

THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!

I can't express how wonderful this cartoon is. It baffles my mind that there's a cartoon that is well-produced, fun and interesting AND teaches children how to speak chinese. In a generation from now there'll be people who can say "Ni-Hao" (with the right intonation!) without the stigma of the phrase belonging to a foreigner demographic. Simply wonderful.

[Makulita]

I was really worried they were gonna do in Dora's style because if you put Dora's design in an Asian context... just imagine it in your head. I really like the style of Kai-Lan, it looks alot like the children books I remember seeing on O'ahu and any "anime" influence isn't immediately apparent, unless, y'know, you're hardxcore and you make yourself see it. Or you're a dumbass and anytime there's something Asian and animation you automatically assume anime. Whatever.

Good job, I give it four stars.

[nightshade]

I just died of cute overload.

Heh, even though the tiger was being whiny, the fact that he had one little tooth sticking out killed me--cute cute cuteness!

[Pat the Great]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxwisiKL38I&feature=related

YES

[nskripchun]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxwisiKL38I&feature=related

YES

DJ Hou Hou... nice.

[nightshade]

Hou Hou is talented.

[blockthebox]

Holy crap, that's really cute. Is that a freakin' rhino being held up by a balloon? Haha.

[evil_FUX]

Ah, teaching children all over the US to speak like AA's.

[nightshade]

OMG, the koala loves pandas, hahahaha (fan video set to a Japanese song):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4q0M8jtJ5ck&feature=related

It's almost as good as when Hello Kitty dresses in rabbit outfits.

Holy crap, that's really cute. Is that a freakin' rhino being held up by a balloon? Haha.

Oh, dude, how did I miss the fact that there's a FLOATING RHINO?

[jaehwan]

That's really cute! Darn, not on Netflix yet.

[Heyyu]

OK, look, I like animation and all, but watching a show for 5-year olds is a little too... juvenile.

And I'm still waiting for the teen version of that when she grows up to be a high school stuck-up CCB...

[ZhuBaJie]

And I'm still waiting for the teen version of that when she grows up to be a high school stuck-up CCB...

great attitude. appropriately WHINY.

[nightshade]

And I'm still waiting for the teen version of that when she grows up to be a high school stuck-up CCB...

Just because you get the impression that five-year-old cartoon character doesn't want to date you, doesn't mean she's a CCB. It just means you're a huge fucking downer.

[krnbboyprd]

It's cute and all but now little white kids are going to come up to me and say hello in Chinese...siigghhh...little bastards..:(

[aelward]

My kids love this show.

My only bite with this is that they chose a non-native speaker (albeit ethnic Chinese) and taught her Mandarin; instead of choosing a bilingual Mandarin-English speaker. Although my Mandarin pronunciation is far from perfect, I can hear Kai-Lan's American's accent. The only thing she says well is "Ye-Ye."

[Ike]

My kids love this show.

My only bite with this is that they chose a non-native speaker (albeit ethnic Chinese) and taught her Mandarin; instead of choosing a bilingual Mandarin-English speaker. Although my Mandarin pronunciation is far from perfect, I can hear Kai-Lan's American's accent. The only thing she says well is "Ye-Ye."

Most Chinese-American kids do end up with some sort of American accent, even if Mandarin was their first language.

As a comparison? How accurate is Dora's Spanish?