So are CEOs, plus their skills and talents in the field of commerce and some times the Engineering field as well. I doubt all educated people (reporters or not) can pronounce all the languages and dialects out there whether it is their own or not. Even if they are not reporters many educated people still often speak to audiences, hold seminars.
However if the non highly educated people have learnt that particular foreign language s/he is more likely to get the pronunciations right.
To be able to pronounce every languages or dialects correctly I think you need to have learnt the languages before or have learnt languages with very similar pronunciations.
I think you must have high talent in learning languages and high ability to master pronunciations, but this is not something everybody can do.
The last time I checked the requirements for journalism in terms of pronunciations (in Australia) was just to be able to say things correctly and clearly in the national language/s of the country or area.
HK reporters (or other highly educated people from HK) pronounce poorly in Mandarin.
It doesn't matter whether people are educated or not, it depends on their field of expertise, like say if they graduated from the field of mathematics, as a scientist of mathematics (besides the obvious that they need to be good at maths) they only required speak well in their own languages or the language of the university/ies they graduated from. Actually I have seen foreign lecturers of maths who can�ft speak English well but very good at maths.
Say if a maths professor is to hold a conference about maths, if s/he happens to mention a foreign scientist, very often s/he can't say their names correctly. They just pronounce it the way their language pronounces it.
A lot of the educated Australians, Americans, English professors and so forth have extreme difficulties just to get their foreign students names or places they come from�cetc pronounce correctly, whether this is in the field of journalism or not.
I wasn't talking about the Europeans who didn't know that, I was talking about the Cantonese people.
Especially the ones who live in western countries. I would expect them to know their own ethnic well but I am wrong, very wrong!!! They think the most of the Southern Hans speak Cantonese and the Northern Hans speak Mandarin�cLOL They even think there are more Cantonese speakers than Mandarin. LOOOOL.
Yes most Europeans or white Americans couldn�ft tell between Chinese to Japanese to Koreans and so on.
In Oscar of this year they said the film �gThe Departed�h was a re-make from a Japanese film but in fact it was a re-make of the HK film�h Infernal Affairs.�h
But then again Asians are also very ignorant when it comes to white people. Comments such as white people only eat McDonalds, the only thing white people can cook is roast are just total jokes.
That's very interesting; maybe my husband has Germanic blood line in him that he didn't know about. He isn't a historian and he never saw his family tree, but you are right it is a common believe that they think their ancestors were Gauls, but in my husband's case most of his Belgium blood are Flemish and others are of Roman descents from Northern Italy.
Wait but then Dutch is an ethnic made up of English and Germans I heard,
well this is too complicated. DNA test will solve all the confusion.
I recently found out I could be a mix of northern and Southern Han, according to the origins of my surname...
... this explains my grandfather's sunken eyes and high bridge nose which is more of the features of the northerners...life is full of surprises.
Originally Posted by Minty
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