# Futurama: Does Amy speak real Chinese?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 29, 2006, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-does-amy-speak-real-chinese/350384 "2006-03-29T09:09:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-does-amy-speak-real-chinese/350384/1 "2006-03-29T09:09:52Z")

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When Amy Wong gets upset, she tends to start cursing (I assume) in Chinese (I assume). Is it real Chinese, and does what she says make sense in the context?

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**Author:** ![Gerome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gerome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerome)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-does-amy-speak-real-chinese/350384/2 "2006-03-29T13:10:58Z")

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On the DVD commentaries they claim that it’s real Chinese - Lauren Tom, who does the voice, can apparently speak Chinese. The curses are allegedly fairly tame. I don’t speak Chinese myself, so I can’t verify this personally.

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**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-does-amy-speak-real-chinese/350384/3 "2006-03-29T19:08:57Z")

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There must be someone here who speaks Chinese and can give some insight.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-does-amy-speak-real-chinese/350384/4 "2006-03-29T19:33:16Z")

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[Not that I’d expect anybody to remember it, but we did have this thread two years ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=254070&highlight=kill+dead+you) Amy is speaking bad Cantonese.

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**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-does-amy-speak-real-chinese/350384/5 "2006-03-29T20:26:19Z")

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So when she does the voice of Minh, is she really speaking Laotian?

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/futurama-does-amy-speak-real-chinese/350384/6 "2006-03-29T21:41:34Z")

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On a related note, Abbey McBride, who does the voice of Ling Ling on _Drawn Together_ is [not Asian](http://voicechasers.com/database/showactor.php?actorid=4159) and is just making it up as she goes along.