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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (51572)	7/15/2004 11:41:25 AM
From: RealMuLan	Respond to of 74559

>>Most Chinese people have extreme difficulties with English, as most non-musical foreigners have extreme difficulty with the different tones of spoken Chinese. << Not true. Chinese women can speak excellent English. And most of Chinese men learn to speak English a little slow, but comparing with Korean and Japanese men, they have done much better. I have seen plenty of young Chinese who have never been overseas, speak very good/excellent English. One example, Yaoming, who has only been to the US for accumulatively <20 months, and who has had a very tough schedule so not to have much time to practice his English. Yet his English is pretty good. >>If the speaker comes from central China the probability of being unable to distinguish n and l is large. << Not true any more, since PuTongHua is a must learn for educated people. I have talked to some Chinese from SiChuan, Guangdong, Shanghai, whose PutongHua is so good that I thought they were from Beijing. I have seen more Americans complaining about Indians speaking English than Chinese speaking English. Most of Indians cannot pronounce 1 or 2 vowels in English, so make their English very hard to understand