Hi!
咁我之前呢 So, in the past
就有教開英文既 I used to teach English
有好多人呢 And there's lots of people
好多你地呢 A lot of you guys
就問我可唔可以教你地喎 Have asked me if I could teach you guys
- And the answer is, yes, I would like to teach you guys English
And I'd like to start from the basic - 我想又最基本既開始
劇本 Script
所以如果你想英文好, So if you want to be good at English
我建議要由ABC I suggest to start at ABCs
最基本既位開始 The most basic
因為如果你好似我咁 Because if you're like me
係一個好local既香港中文學校學英文 Learning English at a local Chinese school
好大機會你學既音係錯嫁 There's a big chance your tone is wrong
ABC既秩序 你岩既 冇學錯 ABCs order: you were taught the right way
係啲音錯 It's the tone that's wrong
咁如果你啲音都學錯 So if you're learning the wrong tones
咁你咪日後學英文呀 講呀 讀呀 When you learn, speak, read English in the future
都會係錯囉 Will be all wrong
Does that make sense? - It does make sense.
Because if you're from Hong Kong and you study at a local Chinese school,
That's where you learn English, you're
Most likely gonna get the accent wrong.
The tone is just a bit off beat
And you're gonna turn into a really monotone Chinese English,
Chinglish way of speaking.
Like this.
- [Chinese accent] I completely agree with you. - That's not the right way.
I would like to demonstrate the correct and incorrect way of saying the ABCs.
- (Chinese accent) A - (English accent) A
- (Chinese accent) B - (English accent) B
(Chinese accent) C
(ABCs in Chinese accent)
(Chinese accent) Next time won't you sing with me
(ABCs in English accent)
我記底左香港人 I marked down the alphabets that people
最常錯既音調 既字母 Usually mess up the tones with
(Chinese accent) B (English accent) B
好輕咁樣, B It's light like this, B
(Chinese accent) D (English accent) D
(Chinese accent) E (English accent) E
香港人好鐘意拉長啲音 People like to stretch out the tone
盡量縮短 就會正確好多 Try to shorten it and it'll be correct
E, not Eeee, E!
下一個係有啲難頂既, F-fu The next one is kinda hard to stand, F
聽都錯啦 係咪呀 Sounds wrong, doesn't it?
It should be, F, F!
唔係 f-fu Not f-fu
下一個都好難頂, H The next one is also hard bear, H
No! H, H, not H-chue
冇兩個音 Doesn't have two tones
It's just H. H.
唔好 "H-chue" Don't go "H-chue"
H, 姐係噴左啲氣出黎 H, it's like blowing air out
H, okay?
Eh-lo
L
Eh-lo (shakes head) No.
L
R
Ah-lo
R. Rrrrrroo. No! R.
R. R. R. Ahh-lo. Don't make me hurt you.
S-see, s-seeee (laughs) S!
For the love of God, S.
What letter- what- what letter was I doing?
下一個唔關你地拉長個音呀啲野既問題 The next one has nothing to do with tones
個問題係個 咬字 The problem is, articulation
你個 你個嘴點樣郁 Your- your mouth's movement
V. V. 唔係 wee V. V. Not wee
Not wee, NEXT!
好易聽咋嘛 好清晰嫁喎 It's easy to listen; it's pretty clear
W, dub-ble-u, ehhh, pretty much the same.
W. 講得靚啲 W. Make it sound prettier
W. W. Dub-ble-u
(Chinese accent) I am from Hong Kong and we say dub-ble-u
No! You say it right! W.
X-sy. Nooo, no, why- ahh!
支燈冇電 The light is out of power
Excuse me.
以防萬一 X. X. Just in case. X. X.
一個音 X One tone, X
永遠都唔會係 x-sy. X It's never gonna be x-sy. X
Zed (UK) Zee (US)
冇一個語言係會講 e-zed No one language pronounces it e-zed
Where the hell did that even come from?
自己作嫁我覺得香港人 I feel like people made it up
Ee-zed
I hope that was useful.
I just thought- I just thought that since I got so many messages asking,
"Can you teach me English?"
I would try start teaching you proper English and I thought we would have
to start from the basics.
Class dismissed.
Cat!
(Cat meows) 唔係呀 Nooo
如果你有小朋友 If you have kids
你唔好教錯佢地點樣講ABC呀 Don't teach them ABCs incorrectly
你叫佢睇我短片 Tell them to watch my video
學我講ABCD- Okay? Learn my way of saying ABCD- Okay?
轉個tone 唔該 轉左個tone佢 Change the tone, please. Change the tone.
Uhh, class dismissed! See you next week.
Peace!