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To: Ilaine who wrote (35580)7/1/2003 11:20:47 AM
From: RealMuLan  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
>>Let me guess that Zhang Yi-mou speaks Mandarin as it is spoken by the educated class in Beijing? <<

Zhang Yi-Mou speaks Mandarin as a couple of millions of people who have been born and grown up in Beijing speak, no more and no less. The dif. bet. educated or not can only be told by the wording, the adjectives, or sometimes by intonation, etc., not by pronunciation. Most of Chinese from Southern part of the country cannot separate Si from Shi (maybe sort of like here in the US a lot of southerners cannot pronounce "Oil" correctly), and that is why we called it "Southern accent". For any language, there has to have a standard pronunciation, anything differ from it is called "accent".
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