Stars Tongue-tied at English Festival 2007 Ivana Wong and Matthew Ko are the ambassadors for this year's "English Festival 2007" and attended a special Carnival event yesterday, also attended by other English speaking stars including Tracy Ip, Winnie Shum, Stephen and Francois Huynh, Joe Yau and Priscilla Chik. The organisers hope that this event will encourage people to listen and speak more to English and the guests had some fun with the audience. One of the games involved the guests having to recite tongue-twister rhymes and of course Ivana and Matthew did the best. Ivana has studied abroad before and she likes to play tongue-twister games in both English and Chinese. She would like to join up with Hins Cheung, Louis Cheung, Khalil Fong and FAMA to do a tongue-twister song at a concert. Earlier, she went to Taiwan to record her new album and she just has one song left to complete. As the producer will be visiting her in Hong Kong soon, then she will be playing the host and taking him to try out the local delicacies. Tracy studied in England for six or seven years and her English is quite good, but she admits that after returning to Hong Kong, she has not used it as much and it is deteriorating. The only chance she has to practice is when she takes her dog to the vets or when she is gossiping with colleagues who have returned from overseas. Winnie grew up in Canada, so English is no problem for her. Talking of her series 'The First Beat' being planned to air in the summer, but may be pulled because of the recent rumours surrounding Sonija Kwok and Michael Tao, does she feel it is a shame? Winnie says that she has not asked the executives about this, but she is not too worried because it will air sooner or later and if the show is released overseas first, then she can watch it when she returns to Canada. http://www.takungpao.com.hk/news/07/04/23/UL-725637.htm
