I feel so ashamed whenever I see foreigners who can speak chinese/vietnamese better than me even more so because I have a white friend who loves chinese so much that he lives and breaths chinese. He speaks and understands it better than me
These kids are just too cute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnJ5KVtqNik&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0OocOBkhQA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8rqj-rv3XA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_tbawIwKj0&feature=related Well, except for maybe the last one, LOL...
dude that first lil kid.... puts me to serious shame.. like ... I majorly fail. I'm almost ashamed to call myself chinese
Must be something with your end of it, I can hear the sound fine. Check your mute option, volume control, speaker connection, etc.-detect
Oki, well i havent watched the vids - sorry ><" i cant get to it.. but here is my opinion abt the topic: at first, if u see someone speak another language that isn't their own it is impressive and it does make u feel a bit like.. oh shiet! hahaa~ but u gota think abt the circumstances.. for example a caucasian who grew up in hk is bound to hv greater cantonese skills than a chinese who grew up in a western society like England because they aren't forever surrounded by chinese and english is the main language.
I know of a living example of that NOT being true. My nephews and niece, all born in the US but raised within the insular expat community within Hong Kong (attend private schools in English, speak to their servants and parents in English, watch the English television channel, etc), do not speak more than a few words of Cantonese despite having lived in HK for most of their lives (they're teens now). IOW, they're Chinese, but don't speak a lick despite living in the thick of it. I personally find that to be monumentally sad... -rolleyes
It's a matter of whether Chinese or other 'mother tongue' is spoken at home, between parents and their children. I know of a situation where the dad speaks Cantonese and the mom Mandarin. They converse in English. Their kids grew up not knowing either Cantonese or Mandarin.
Damn... That's pretty F'd up. We speak Canto at home, but lately my wife has been forcing herself to speak Mandarin to our daughter, who is still young. The older boys are already a lost cause... :laugh:
[video=youtube;77o0q3cgkg4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77o0q3cgkg4&feature=related"[/video] Sorry for dragging up this old thread, but I found another one of these and for the first time, listened to the woman "Sharon" speak English (she was #3 of the first group of videos) LOL, she speaks English with a Chinese accent. -clapclap And part 2 & 3 of Karina and her family: [video=youtube;OyN-yCep0u8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyN-yCep0u8"[/video] [video=youtube;kJuBOGpz_8k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJuBOGpz_8k&feature=related"[/video]
lol i remeber seein the video of kennis singing b4 but never realised he actually didnt live in hk and learnt it by himself whhich is quite epic
