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bluecollar
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 Message 17 of 108
22 January 2008 at 12:56pm | IP Logged 
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
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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 
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
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Speaks: Cantonese, English*
Studies: German, French, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean

 
 Message 19 of 108
22 January 2008 at 3:10pm | IP Logged 
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 :)



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Lawrence
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 Message 20 of 108
22 January 2008 at 3:11pm | IP Logged 
PS. X's are syllables I couldn't catch for one reason or another.
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bluecollar
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 Message 21 of 108
22 January 2008 at 3:17pm | IP Logged 
Man.It seems to me the little girl passed the Cantonese test.She is obviously not a parrot.
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bluecollar
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 Message 22 of 108
24 January 2008 at 10:49am | IP Logged 
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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