Although Jenny is not even close to be the most beautiful or cute girl in 83 but she certainly has a very unique style to report news.

No offense but Jenny's English.....

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原帖由 中山樵 於 2010-12-6 12:20 發表
No offense but Jenny speaks very fluent English. The only thing is that her accent isn't quite Cantonese. I was surprised the first time I watched her hosting weather report because her oral English i ...

My point is Jenny's English is superior comparing with other Cantonese but there is still an obvious gap between she and native speaker. I personally had goosebumps when I first heard she reported weather, I'm able to get every single word from her but I guess it's the odd pronunciation that made me had it.

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原帖由 richard07 於 2010-12-6 19:41 發表
I think she is very difficult to become as the accent of the English native  speaker!! Because she in fact is a Cantonese native speaker!! It is totally different of the English native speaker from w ...

I totally understand your point but this is Pearl, it is suppose to be for native speakers.

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原帖由 中山樵 於 2010-12-6 20:11 發表
There is a logical problem that must be made clear. It is not necessary for all the anchors to be native English speakers or reach the native level of oral English even if Pearl has native speakers as ...

I think we should just end the argument here.

Jenny is pretty good in translation from English-Chinese.

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原帖由 richard07 於 2010-12-10 20:39 發表

珍妮英文即時翻譯真係好叻!!
對珍妮有好高評價!!

It's not excellent but still very good especially considering English is not very good her first language.

As I said, Jenny is far way from being a native speaker but she is very good considering her background.

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原帖由 richard07 於 2010-12-10 22:36 發表
I also think that she is a suitable candiate for reporting the live broadcasting in the Nobel Award ceremony and as a translator among Ida, Venus and her!! Because I think that Jenny is good in Englis ...

Who knows? I guess we could assume that Jenny is best in English among all the anchors in channel 83.

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原帖由 中山樵 於 2010-12-10 22:47 發表
Oh, I think Diamond Cheng must be as good as Jenny in English.
Unfortunately, she is never an anchor of channel 83.

Connie may be fine in English too considering she has handled well in few episodes of "時事百科" that required some specific English terminologies.

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原帖由 richard07 於 2010-12-10 22:57 發表

Why do you think Diamond is better than Jenny while she is speaking in English??
I think they are both good when speaking in English!

The term he used was "as good as" meaning Diamond and Jenny probably are in the same level category in terms of speaking English.

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原帖由 中山樵 於 2010-12-10 22:59 發表
I am not trying to be dubious of Connie's English standard, but the mere fact that she can handle a few specific English terminologies like "quantative easing" doesn't mean that she is good in English ...

See, of course words or two can't define the English level for a person but it does imply something, "Quantitative easing" is not an easy phrase to pronounce especially for people who doesn't speak English much. Channel 83 has to decide someone to do this episode and pronounce it, Connie was given the chance so we could see the faith and confidence from TVB to Connie's English.

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原帖由 中山樵 於 2010-12-10 23:14 發表
I understand what you are saying. However, what if Connie hosted the Pearl weather report?

It is definitely unfair to allege that Connie would do a worse job than Jenny. I am not trying to make suc ...

Absolutely, but what we are discussing are all hypothetical but I guess we could assume that Jenny will do a better job than Connie. Unfortunately, we may never know.

我要用IME PAD同GOOGLE TRANSLATOR來打中文同我D中文麻麻

I always stress the importance to learning English and of course as a Chinese, Cantonese and PTH are an huge asset for our life.

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原帖由 richard07 於 2010-12-11 00:25 發表


In the past, my english level was very poor, just got the pass result (e) in HKCEE of  English Language in syllabus A!! This is a unacceptable result in my life!! Just because, I was lazy in my se ...

Remarkable effort!

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原帖由 richard07 於 2010-12-11 00:49 發表
Brother, you are an immigrant from hk when you are younger?? Why do your chinese, specially the Cantonese is not good??

I born in Canada and moved to HK when I am 6, moved back to Canada when I am 12, got my bachelor degree in UBC and master in Northwestern. I am then blessed with a great chance returning to HK for my current job.

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原帖由 richard07 於 2010-12-11 01:01 發表

Thanks for you encouragement!!
I am still studying the vocabularies from english news paper, english story books, I need to improve my listening skill, even though I felt that my englis ...

A very simple way to improve your English in a fun way is to read or watch something you are very interested in English (For example - Sports)

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原帖由 richard07 於 2010-12-11 01:06 發表
But why do you can read the chinese words and will browsering this forum??

I studied my Primary here in HK and my Chinese dramatically improved when I returned to HK after graduation, living with my grandparents really does help.

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原帖由 richard07 於 2010-12-11 01:08 發表
You english is quite good!!
Don't tell me your english is primary school level!!

Same question here, much higher standard than primary level.

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原帖由 中山樵 於 2010-12-11 15:38 發表

Jenny's Pearl weather report may perhaps be a better choice, considering the discussion nature of this particular forum.

The sad part is, and you would probably flame me about this, Jenny's English is not the ideal accent you want to imitate.

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原帖由 hkkane 於 2010-12-21 20:26 發表

Jenny's pronunciation still has room to improve.  

meters
territory
relative

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原帖由 中山樵 於 2010-12-22 15:12 發表
She pronounced the word "meters" in an unnatural way. I don't know why she raised the intonation.

"New Territories"...well, she made a mistake there indeed. It sounds like "torritories" more than " ...

I was easy on her already...

She pronounced relative as rea-a-tive. I believe this occurred because she was pacing it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/hkkane2012#p/a/u/0/PMKPiPAlLn4
owns Jenny English.

Although that girl is pretty nervous (maybe she's not too confident in her English skill) but her English oral is simply better than Jenny and it's not even close.

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原帖由 中山樵 於 2010-12-28 21:28 發表

I would say that Diamond's oral English sounds more Cantonese than Jenny's.
Diamond was more articulate than Jenny, but they were of the same level in terms of fluency.

I really have no idea of what more Cantonese English is.... Well at least Diamond gets the pronunciation correct and not create a new vocabulary out like Jenny.