評論香港政界名人英文(一) 1/2

[cungle]

哂9氣,正常人有能力有時間有資源學好兩文三語,你講野有口音係­因為唔係母語,生活少用,普通人學口音(通常99.99%失敗)­係本末倒置

[chansiumingholunsing]

葉太應該係用字 立論好勁果D

[LTianwei]

Sexy Canton accent~

[smeligan]

I agree that Regina Yip's english is excellent, and that her university teacher said her cantonese accent is not a problem, but I want to tell her teacher that regina's pronounciation sucks!!

[stonpio]

你段片中所講嘅't'結尾香港人讀成'ts', 好似唔係剩係香港人咁讀喎, 澳洲呢邊有好多南歐移民, 尤其老一輩由希腊, 意大利, 西班牙, 塞浦路斯嚟嘅人, 都係咁讀, 仲有佢地仲會將'wh'讀成'hw', 英文單字'where', 'when', 'what', 'why' 全部讀成 ' hwere', 'hwen', 'hwat', 'hwy', 佢地話係老式英文喎, 唔知你呢位阿sir會唔會話佢地讀得唔啱呢?

[michlam999]

@stonpio

siusir其中一個video"英文由F字學起：Which 和 Witch 讀音有分別嗎?"有提及過你所講既問題.你可以睇睇

[stonpio]

@michlam999 Thanks for letting me know ^^

[stonpio]

唔多認同你D觀點, 英文作為世界上其中一種重要語言, 其本上講到可以溝通, 大家聽得明就得, 唔使吹毛永疵要求講到完全無口音. 講開英文口音, 北美有美國加拿大口音, 澳紐又有另一種口音, 南非又有, 星馬又有, 就連英文嘅發源地英國都因為唔同地區有唔同口音, 甚至倫敦都有分市區同埋東南西北口音, 英國政界人士用嘅係俗稱'BBC English' 嘅英文, 出咗倫敦, D口音重到你完全聽唔明; 或者你又可以响星期日去下皇后象廣場聽下D菲律賓人講英文, 你會聽得明, 但佢地口音都好重, 唔通你又去教佢地點發音咩? 佢地會聽你咩? 你叫一個20歲嘅倫敦人改口音, 佢都無可能改到啦~

每個地方嘅英文口音都代表咗果個地方獨特嘅文化背景, 好似新加坡咁, 英文越嚟越多人用, 又唔見佢地D口音改到好似英國或者美國咁?

[sinhoiling]

i think having accent is not a problems as long as its regarded as "correct" by most of the native english speakers and they do understand you....so that they dont tease you too much when u speak....

Regina Yip sounds really weird ..and she is pretty..........ugly , btw.

[s05175]

Great video.

[iimrealnoob]

lol way better accent than ppl in taiwan XD i dont see anything bad about hk english accent XD

[sportchek]

Very good channel. It can really show the common problems that others have. If people dont go aboard, they may hardly find any sources to improve their accent!

[KKM121]

This video is awesome. I am a Hong Konger living Canada and I still learned a lot from this video. (The huge Chinese community in Vancouver decreases the willingness of the Chinese here to learn better English)

I understand this video teaches a British accent more than a Canadian/American accent, but is still help a lot for getting rid of a Cantonese accent.

[redtea123]

oh my god!!!!you are a pseud shit !!!!

[alleon76]

i used to think pronunciation is important but being able to communicate is the the most important thing. Most people speak more than 3 languages. Its not possible nor it is necessary to perfect accent in every language you know.

[bananian]

I remember my English teacher back then had us erase "the" and replace with "D" after a vowel, haha.

[horacechenyinhon]

Anyway, I think the most undesirable thing in HK accent is its tonality, not the pronunciation of a single word, so please don't stress on the pronunciation of individual words too much.

[horacechenyinhon]

As Hong Kong has been a British colony for more than a hundred years,some pronunciations might be influenced by British people who are not originated from London, Oxford or Cambridge, which make HK accent sound different from three of these cities. Thus I think the producer should do more research on different English accent in UK, US and other English speaking countries, so as to let the viewers receive correct messages from his video.

[horacechenyinhon]

I hope all of you can pay attention to the following:

1. Regina Ip did not pronunce the words "well" and "will" wrongly, as dark l can be replaced by w sound since 19th century in southern England.

2. "S sound" can still be pronunced in between vowels or between vowel and voiced consonant, this is according to the classical English pronunciation. We should bear in mind that HK English is strongly influenced by classical English and that's the reason why the pronunciation of letter Z is different

[MrSmokingsanta]

Problem is that HK is seriously lacking qualified English teachers. My family and I moved to Canada 30 years ago, when I was only 11 at the time. I still remember that I got teased and laughed at by other kids because of my HK english. My teachers in HK taught me that f, v, ph, and th are pronounced exactly the same! Also s = z, and z = "2 sed", and sh is pronounced "s" (like shoe pronounced "sue"). It is embarrassing even thinking about it...

[Siukonginhongkong]

what's the difference between f and ph?

[Dam1000Dam1000]

yr teacher is really..um...she sucks

[Vaye1986]

lol @ how you pronouced collaboration

[hillcalf]

鼓厲多講多用英文, 比文法/正音都重要得多...

要求土生土長的中文人跟英文人去睇齊, 係不切實際

無大環境的幫助下, 呢種正音教學根本功效不大

一般家長睇到, 會以為好有用, 根本只係走馬看花

[alexlaiyichu]

香港的英語教學太過著重應試,學校和學生只知道操練pastpa­per, 只知道教授或學習Skills,對英文的基本功如文法,發音都很­忽視,這樣的教學模式很難指望能培養出英文水平到家的下一代

[alexlaiyichu]

香港的英文教育存在一個極大的問題,就是缺乏甚至沒有統一的英文­教科書.中四以上的學生更連英文課文和錄音聲帶都沒有,沒有標準­的範例,學生們惟有靠自己亂摸,不自覺地"發明"一些"新式"的­港式英文(特別當這些學生缺乏老師有效的指導,使這問題更顯尖銳­)

[alexlaiyichu]

其實學準英文哪用這麼麻煩?我不否定有些細微的音要特別注意學習­,但要做到基本上發音準確其實每天堅持聽十到二十分鍾英文聲帶就­行了.(內地的英語教學較為重視聽錄音,很多學生都會購買英文复­讀機聽英文.這是為甚麼內地學生要么英文發音完全不行,要么就相­當標準,很少帶中式口音的緣故)

[ohyeahxy]

你看到的内地學生都是精英來的...大多數英文也都不行....­

[vic2012]

Try my breast~

[spider5604]

你應該將你覺得人地講得唔好嘅地方,甚至全段演譯一次,睇下又係­咪好過人地.比大家評吓.唔係你就全無說服力.其實應該由一個懂­廣東話嘅英國人嚟批評.你未夠資格.

[IllSkill9]

Hi siu82english: If anything, I think your spoken English is very Hong Kong style with heavy cantonese accents. Honestly I don't think you are qualified to teach spoken English.

[mitong100]

[回應 wochiu 等人]

如果單從知識角度來看﹐這些錄像多少起到一些教學作用﹔很可惜的­是﹐原作人抱著教導別人糾正發音陋習時﹐自身卻犯上說中文偏要夾­雜一堆不必要的英語。倘若指控別人說英語帶有粵音是一種陋習﹐難­道他說著母語(中文)卻要混上一堆不必要的英語便不是陋習﹖正所­謂﹕其身不正﹐又何以正人﹖﹗

[vitasoy1437]

thanks for sharing this..... Audrey's eng. speaking surprised me... dsnt sound like chinese....

by the way, pronunciation is important... however If hk people have great pronunciation, but crappy grammar, whats the point? plus, they have neither now.... u should find examples of ppl who doesnt know grammar and talk about that.. which would be better...

[yykk2010]

有冇一d你自己讀一段約1min英文既片/錄音分享下?

[wochiu]

教英文的人一定要先學好中文? 這理論真奇怪! 看來英美的教師快要被解僱了!

將缺點提出來, 大家留意改善, 有何不好?

如要改善中文發音, 亦可另開一視頻, 逐點提出改善, 就請閣下主持, 如何?

[mitong100]

這位自以為是的教學人員﹐你連(以粵語)講話都不能以流利的中文­表達﹐便跑來評論別人的英語水平﹖你到底知不知羞恥﹖﹗

在你總是批評別人港式(廣東式)英語前﹐為甚麼不先好好地檢討自­身的不三不四﹑中英夾雜的語句﹖別忘記你是來教學的﹐況且你的母­語是中文﹐而不是英語﹗

母語(中文)還沒學好就來教人外語(英語)﹐跟小孩子未學走路便­學游泳有甚麼分別﹖

[goldgoldgo]

呢係友 敢在這評論他人英文, 真係唔識寫

'羞"字.

你的英文 好"屎". 而不自知.

笑死.

[purplepwnage]

damn use english if you're gonna sound like a retard in chinese

[bobchewaing]

Unless you are from the international school, 90% of our Chinese English teachers speak English with Chinese accent. The most important thing is make sure people understand what you are trying to say. The tips is to speak English slowly and loudly. Remember to pronoun every consonants in each word. Do not afraid your English is not good enough, practice made prefect.

[linden1012]

funny

[Wai200808]

讲广东话的人很难发R音的，讲国语的人很易发好英文音。

我好enjoy（动词）也是非常错的讲法，但很多人都讲也被其他­人受落。

[Tatsumak]

Hey, I agreed that they have a hk accent when they speak English. But, you should mentioned that you are teaching them how to speak the British accent. Cuz, that's not how we speak in Canada or US. (Eg.) pro-fessor .. Canada and US use the full tone instead of the half tone that you indicated. But, it's a different story in UK as we found that they tend to use higher tones more often.

[mcbong10]

Your Days are numbered Cheap Tsao!!Racist Chinese Pigs!!try to travel outside Hongkong,Your dead meat racist chinks!!bastard asshole!!

[haywoodlbc]

Asshole shut the fxxk up if u do not understand wt he reli want to say. u juz get stuff with the rubbish media, use ur brain tht ur parents gave u or otherwise they'll be sad!

[al2972007]

面就人地比、架就自己刁。

陶傑條走狗比菲律賓政府一嚇、就第一時間跳出嚟認錯、咁無（吉糞­）、早知如此、何必當初呢。

第一時間跳出嚟、澄清拿乜護照、唔好影衰中國人！！！

[limr2222]

I agree... that Chip Tsao must shut up his fucking mouth...why? he forgot that he came in mainland China? The place where the cheap lady prostitute of 10 DHS

and UAE came from? Fuck You Chip Tsao.

[DracheausChina]

shut up!are u really know the situation in China?are u clever than Mao Zhedong?

U just stand aside and say some useless words.

[ltlwatcher]

He is sophisticated.

[skio1825]

r u an english teacher or somthing?

[al2972007]

陶傑條契弟走狗話：「政治好似女性生殖器0甘汚漕。」セ女性生殖­器好汚 漕0羊？請問全香港0既女性、係0羊？？？？？？？？？？？？？­ ？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？？

[nic0203]

佢幾時咁講?

[al2972007]

係：「狂猫舌戦抽水十九才子」。

[lognameintube]

「政治好似女性生殖器0甘汚漕。」=政治 '好西污漕', 咁簡單你都諗唔到?  你真係好似男人性器官咁蠢.

[al2972007]

係0牙！係0牙！因為我0尼條男人器官末刁狗你！！！？？？

[al2972007]

係0牙！係0牙！因為我0尼條男人性器官刁得你少0牙！！！

[lognameintube]

你真係好能蠢呀, 抵你溝唔到女.

[YiuYeung]

learning to speak english that way is so annoying. I just learn it by living in the states. I don't think even locals know this stuff.

[aircto1986]

好勁...如果我d 英文同你同一level就好嚕...

[klsuperman]

同邊個先？

[tintin0661]

I didn't know that the 's' in ... problems between.... is pronounced as a 'z'. Good to know that.

[prbtao]

My opinion is Siu Sir just wanted us avoided these problems but not laugh at someone. Thus, I wonder if it was necessary for sb here to argue with some needless issues. Thx.

[ircjunk2004]

Good analysis. I lived in US for 10 years and still, I don't notice things that you brought up.

[jimfee42]

most people won't unless you learn English in a languege institute. The way you learned your English is probably from mimicking instead of studying. Just like babies learn speaking. Regular school doesn't teach voice and diction.

[jimfee42]

i think the problem is in HK, there is not voice and diction course for the students. It's important to learn to how to pronounce correctly and precisely if english is the native language. i took that course in college it's been very helpful.

[AlfaCat503]

jimfee42, I totally agree with you. I studied in HK till F.5 and came to the US. My teacher never taught me how to read the symbols in the dictionary(my school was a famous school in Kowloon Tong). I have to learn English from watching TV. I still can't really tell the difference when he says 'won't' or 's' vs 'z'. But his English is definitely good. Now I need to learn from him how NOT to speak so 'flat'. Great video, Thanks.

[gordonleung226]

@jimfee42 I dont see the need in learning how to speak like a native english. Be confident in yourself! It is the content of your speech counts, not the accent!

廣東音又如何!? 香港人學accent 唔係俾鬼聽﹐係講俾你隔離有廣東音既朋友聽.... 未見過有其他國家既人俾香港人更介意d音似唔似。

[jimfee42]

@gordonleung226 I don't know where you are living now. I guess you haven't had the experience of being treated differently in the US because of the language barrier. I came to New York when I was 14. I was lucky enough to learn to speak English fluently with only little accent. When I didn't speak perfect english, I had bad experience with Cops, government workers and other people. The fact is if you don't speak perfect English, your chance to move up your ladder in your career is small.

[ML09041212]

@jimfee42

accidently deleted....

really? i don't know how it is like in your country but it won't affect a lot in Hong Kong. You can search some video for our chief execution. He also speaks canton-accent english.

I agree with gordonleung226 because I think the canton-accent represents our culture. Our HYBRID language with weird english and putonghua. cantonese as well...

Denying our accent is like denying the hong kong unique culture in my view

[VictorDanDan]

@jimfee42 We should pay attention to grammar as well.

[osmanovski]

"蕭"sir好x醒lor,講真大家d英文發音都係因係由細到大­係學校養成,老師又唔教,你叫人地咁老點會改到,拎黎講

[klsuperman]

學校唔教？

係人講你就，醒你又唔問咋掛

唔好賴啦

[epkt]

I find this clip quite educational. I won't feel offended if someone correct my English this way.

[wendychan0605]

I totally agree with you~

I think some bitchy people are just jealous about that~@@

Or maybe he doesen't even know how to speak English,Thats why he use to criticize other people who are smart and has talent.These are the people I really look up to...

Just socks....

[rachmaninov1873]

some bitch people? u mean u? haha..u are damn funny~~~~

[wendychan0605]

First,It's not bitch, it's bitchy~

I think you really have to spend more time to correct your grammer...

Secondly,I didn't really point out your name...I'm totally confused about your big reaction~^^

[rachmaninov1873]

whatever la..

[postxhardcore]

Get over it bitch!!!

siu sir was just using it as an example to teach us English.

You think your English is better than other's, huh?

Look at your preposition usage!!!!

shut the hell up, for everyone's sake!!

The more you speak, the more the laughing stock you are like

[hwlj2007]

you have an eye for detail

Good

[sisisze2007]

WHO ENGHLISH BEST???????

[rachmaninov1873]

who the hell are u actually? u can speak english well??

[mimoka22]

1.你真係有屎不識泰山,佢係蕭sir.

2.He can speak completely pure english.

唔信試下睇佢upload d video,youtube影片獎的

[rachmaninov1873]

你都硬膠.你估所有高官都係讀英文科出身架咩,蕭sir係勁我同­意,不過佢冇必要係度咁樣講人邊度講錯..乜乜乜囉..唔係博出­位係乜???

[AndersonYeong]

He's just taking a real person on TV to be an example in order to increase the effectiveness in teaching and also our learning process...

So if u're not helping here, please not simply criticize before u understand the entire thing...Thank you...

[rachmaninov1873]

u think u are tony blair? shame on u!

[AndersonYeong]

Please try to appreciate what others post online...and this is obviously an education based vid clip...Just in case u didnt notice it, just check the rest of the vids he posted in youtube... Thank you...

[wendychan0605]

首先，我想請你好好檢討自己待人接物態度。

香港現在已經漸漸步向國際化，每天愈來愈多的人為了找一份好的工­作，都要學會說英文這個基本的要求，老闆才會考慮容許你加入其公­司。那政府的高官就更不用說。我就以你的標準為例子，「你估所有­高官都係讀英文科出身架咩」

對，並不是每個政府高官都是專修英文科出身的，可是我倒想問問你­，如果一個政府高官，就連一個國際語言也說不好，如何應付每天工­作上的應酬和基本要求?

不是說蕭sir刻意要批評政界的人物所說的語言

從我們常人看來，他們已經說得很不錯的了，只不過是指出他們美中­不足的地方，希望我們可以從中學習和修改，而且他也有舉出一些說­得好和說得不好的的例子啊，憑藉這個理由，我可以說他並不是在這­裡胡亂批評人或是在你口中所說的「博出位」。就算他真的為炫耀，­也從中讓我們吸收到知識，你又如何?

這位先生or小姐，不是說為難你，難道你不覺得自己的語氣和態度­很有問題嗎?別人只不過是在網上分享自己的心得和意見，我覺得你­沒有必要處處為難別人，喜歡與不喜歡也好，看了就作罷。故意說一­些傷人和沒有道德的粗俗言語，只會顯得你在人群中像一個沒有接受­過任何教育和教養的小流氓一樣。

[rachmaninov1873]

我係小流氓,咁你係大流氓囉,最叻係你,咁得未??

[albertc1hk]

Dear Mimoka22,

Would you please let me know more about this 蕭sir? Do you know where to attend his lessons like those in youtube?

Thanks a lot!

[oscarma11]

Thanks, vry good

[aaaaleon]

i like Audrey's

[effleurer]

audrey eu's is the best

[Goldmasterx]

勁人! 佩服佩服

[ILuvHongKong]

Regina Ip tends to abuse the word "the." Sometimes she uses "the" inappropriately.

1. It should be: "whether from the government or from the private sector."

2. It should be: "between new appointees and civil servants."

She also tends to use the word "will" too often when in fact she should have used "is" or "may".

E.g.

1. It should be: "Initially, there may be teething problems"

2. It should be: "It isn't easy to find the right talent"

I wonder how she was able to get a PhD!????

[hElloKid89]

very interesting interpretation~

[vincentlkk01]

Good video with comment on some political guys, keep on friend!

Vincent Copperfield

[bymsun]

Excellent work! But can you repeat the correct pronunciation more and slowly?

[zckfu]

Please make it simple

[wuhitler]

It show on de TV.

[gaspard128]

i have a phonetic class this semester and its kinda boring but i found your teaching is very interesting. i even think of showing my professor your videos too bad she doesnt understand cantonese. on..i am studying in Taipei but i understand cantonese. Once again, thank you very much ^_^

nessa