Let's Speak Chinglish -Introduction-

Chinglish, a well spread virus on earth, is spoken by a huge amount of Chinese English speakers. To defeat this disease or to blend in with those Chinglish creatures(just in case that you have great potential to earn a fortune by communicating with them), knowing how Chinglish is formed will help you cure them or join them. With my personal background and experience, I specify on few different regions of species, especially from Taiwan(ones with Japanese influence, Minnan and Mandarin speakers). In this project, there will be more about the pronunciation. If the project goes smoothly, there will be another project emphasizing on the grammar point of view.

How is Chinglish formed? We know that the accents are easily formed when people learn new languages by relating the new sounds to the similar ones in their original languages. For Chinglish speakers, this means we will be looking into Chinese language(Mandarin and Minnan speakers)and apply the logic of Chinese language to English speaking. To make this project more fun and clear, I will make videos to demonstrate absolutely atrocious examples of Chinglish Speaking for you to witness online.

As a trained opera singer, I've studied diction in English, French, German and Italian. For most of this project, I will be using the IPA(International Phonetic Alphabet) learned from the great teachers, Kathryn LaBouff(Eng), Marianne Barrett(Ger), Thomas Muraco(Fren), Corradina Caporello(Ita), and etc. I've also done some research online to see how Chinese people write their own alphabet. I will use most of those with some of my own ways to explain.

So, let's move on and have some fun!

Great books for diction learning~(The pictures are the links to them on Amazon.com. If you like to read more detail or to make a purchase, just simply click on the picture.)

(I have all of them except I didn't get them with their price listed on Amazon today... )