Re: [definitely OT] very short note before people listen to "my" interview on the UGR
Re: [definitely OT] very short note before people listen to "my" interview on the UGR
- Subject: Re: [definitely OT] very short note before people listen to "my" interview on the UGR
- From: Yan Feng <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:23:29 +0800
Richard Huggins (email@hidden) wrote to us on 25 08 2003 12:00
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Yan, I doubt that you're any more different than the rest of us, other than
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being a Chinese resident who writes flawless English! (Well, almost
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flawless..."apparantly" should be "apparently" ... heh heh). You should see
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my Chinese..... (Ha! I've never written one character of Chinese!)
Ah... typos...
Mind you, I've evolved quite a bit from being that 2nd-grader in elementary
school who got 100% on the spelling bee. ;-) And part of that evolution,
sadly, involved more than one typo...
(Hey, where's the Entourage AutoCorrect?...)
You want to learn Chinese? I know at the start it looks like it's a crazy
mix of strokes and things that look like characters boxed into other
characters. But here's the thing: played Lego before? Good. Chinese is just
like that. Seriously. :-)
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When I was in Russia I noticed that the interpreter had a UK accent to her
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English. It seems that if you are taught by one who has a UK accent, then of
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course you'll speak that way. Was that how you were taught?
This will sound insane. We had the geography teacher from Australia, the
learning assistant from the US, the tutor from England, and I wouldn't rule
out a Canadian or two. You could imagine what accent I picked up there!
(This was back in 8th grade).
Fortunately, though, I think it was my pre-calc teacher and BBC Prime that
got me in a UK accent?
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As for your voice, what interview are you talking about? Online? Where,
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when...?
Anywhere you hear my voice, it's that trademarked accent...
soprano-ist/-ish/-flavour/-like/-sort-of/[fill-in-the-suffix-blank], UK
accent... and a very good place to get a clue of that is on the MUG Centre's
User Group Report - I'm part of the list of "the interviewed" this time...
aka guests. :-)
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