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| bluecollar Groupie United States Joined 5540 days ago 43 posts - 48 votes | Message 17 of 108 22 January 2008 at 12:56pm | IP Logged |
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Well,the hardest part to judge is the accent.For that,we need real native speakers of the languages.I hope to have some Indians,arabs,Chinese and Japanese on board.
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| apparition Octoglot Senior Member United States Joined 6036 days ago 600 posts - 667 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Pashto | Message 18 of 108 22 January 2008 at 1:23pm | IP Logged |
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I was curious where they got all those children's books in different languages, so I asked whoever runs the account on YouTube and they replied that they got them through Amazon.com So, in case anyone else had that question, there you go.
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| Lawrence Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5568 days ago 149 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Cantonese, English* Studies: German, French, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 19 of 108 22 January 2008 at 3:10pm | IP Logged |
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Here is a transcript of the Cantonese part, in case anyone wants to know for some reason:
Questioner(Q): 你有幾姊妹呀? Wendy(W): 我有一個弟弟呀 Q﹕ 淨係有一個弟弟咖咋 你媽媽係做乜嘢咖? W﹕我媽媽幫我個爸爸 Q﹕你鍾唔鍾意食中國餐呀? W﹕唔鍾意 Q﹕唔鍾意? 噉你點解又要去XX食嘢呀? 鍾唔鍾意呀? W﹕唔鍾意 Q﹕哦﹐原來唔鍾意 你幾多歲呀? 你幾多歲呀? W﹕我八歲啦 Q﹕你學中文有幾耐呀? W﹕我學啦*1。。 Q﹕學咗。幾多年呀? W﹕六年 Q﹕六年定係五年呀? W﹕唔係呀 Q﹕你又話你三歲開始學咖嘛 W﹕係呀 Q﹕但係你依家先得八歲﹐邊有六年呀? W﹕等陣。。呀係呀﹐係唔五年呀 Q﹕係啦﹐講錯咗呀頭先 識唔識*2識唔識[讀*3]用廣東話讀哩啲課文呢? 你依家讀吓哩個課文畀我聽吓呀 W﹕好呀 小鴨說﹕媽媽﹐你帶我去遊泳好嗎? 媽媽說﹕小溪的水不深﹐自己去遊了 過去幾天﹐小鴨學會了遊泳 hmm.. 我唔食飲。。 Q﹕一樣咖嘛係唔係 W﹕係呀﹐一樣 Q﹕一樣咪得囉 噉你喺都做咩呀? W﹕我睇有乜嘢好食 Q﹕你好鍾意o抄嘢食係咪? W﹕係呀﹐點解-你知呀 Q:你睇吓食到肥o奪o奪緊係知啦 你最鍾意食乜嘢呀? 你最鍾意飲牛奶﹐最鍾意食糖﹐最鍾意食餅﹐ 係咪呀? 你依家搵咩嘢呀? W﹕係呀(你係依個呀??) Q﹕係咪話你再食就大肚腩咖 W﹕係呀 Q﹕點解XXX啲越南話同你啲廣東話一樣嘅? W﹕乜嘢? Q﹕佢話你再食就邊大腩咖啦﹐係咪噉講呀? W﹕係呀 Q﹕點解同廣東話一樣嘅? W﹕帽呀*4 Q﹕又帽? W﹕點樣? Q﹕你跳個舞嚟睇吓 W﹕我唔識跳舞呀 Q﹕你嗰日著條裙呢﹐喺度轉轉﹐轉得幾好睇 喎 跳嚟睇吓﹐再跳多一次 W﹕係咪噉樣呀? Q﹕係呀係呀 你最鍾意做乜嘢呀? 嘩﹐做咩要咳呀? 感冒呀? W﹕係呀 Q﹕好耐啦﹐你有冇食藥咖? W﹕有呀 Q﹕你緊係要著對襪啦﹐又唔著襪又唔著鞋 W﹕我唔鍾意呀 Q﹕唔鍾意咪感冒囉 著東件衫呀嘛 你最鍾意咩玩*5具呀? W﹕我唔知呀 Q﹕有唔知? 著*6住鍾意嗰啲 W﹕我鍾意玩嘅。。 Q﹕你最鍾意- W﹕係YOYO呀 Q﹕YOYO係。。哦。噉唔*7見你玩過嘅? W﹕喺度我冇呀嘛 Q﹕喺度冇玩。鍾二玩公仔 Now I don't know if the questioner is a native speaker or not, but there are some differences in the way she speaks Cantonese to how I do. Maybe it's some regional thing. Asterisks: 1: probably a Mandarin/Cantonese confusion. She said 啦,which sounds very similar to 了in mandarin, which would have worked grammatically if she wasn't speaking Canto. The questionier corrects this. 2: Mispronounced, then self-corrected 3: Just a slip of the tongue, I should think 4: They were just talking about saying something the same in Vietnamese, so I assume that is a similar sounding word in Viet 5: The character is often pronounced waan2, but in this context, it shud be wun6. Regional thing? 6: No idea what this was supposed to mean, I just wrote what it sounded like to me 7: Grammatical error. Should have been 冇 instead of 唔 So yeah, I can't really tell if the questioner is native or not. Her Pronunciation is really good though, so I think she might be, or at least grew up around it. Maybe a Chinese Vietnamese person? Since she refers to similarities between the two languages. The girl started off well, but her pronunciation got very slightly dodgy near the end. She sounds like a Chinese kid who grew up overseas to be honest, which is pretty damn good! If I heard her speaking Cantonese with her family here in England, I'd probably assume she was a Chinese kid :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lawrence Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5568 days ago 149 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Cantonese, English* Studies: German, French, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 20 of 108 22 January 2008 at 3:11pm | IP Logged |
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PS. X's are syllables I couldn't catch for one reason or another.
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| bluecollar Groupie United States Joined 5540 days ago 43 posts - 48 votes | Message 21 of 108 22 January 2008 at 3:17pm | IP Logged |
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Man.It seems to me the little girl passed the Cantonese test.She is obviously not a parrot.
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| bluecollar Groupie United States Joined 5540 days ago 43 posts - 48 votes | Message 22 of 108 24 January 2008 at 10:49am | IP Logged |
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Wendy Vo is no hoax.She is one of the 10 role models for young American 18 and under.Check forbes.com and search for wendy vo.
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