My mum comes from a chinese/dialet speaking background, was educated in Chinese schs and she onli picked up english when we start schooling. Even then, she didnt pick up much from us as we struck to speaking mandarin at home.
Despite that, she is 1 courageous woman to me, she is totally not shy speaking to others using her half past 6 english. Many times, still feeling proud of the fact that she dared to converse in english.
So, we tried to help her as much as we can, by correcting & teasing her whenever she got some phase/words wrong. 1 might scare that she will be angry, but its juz the opposite!! She is proud of her funnie pronunciation and continued with it..
Here are some examples for the funnier 1..
David Bacon = David Beckham (Sounds similar, at least to her)
Africa = Apricot (Dun ask me why, its after she showed me the fruit then I knew what she was trying to tell me)
Lobut = Robot (Hokkien style)
Chart = Charge (Hokkien style)
Ladio = Radio (Hokkien style)
Celebrate = Separate (Sounds similar to her again, though she knew celebrate is wrong, but she juz cannot prounce separate)
Lorec = Rolex (I guess this is common among hokkien speaking ppl)
8-lay = 8-days (wat's up with all the L pronunciation??)
Pakgate = Package (Her latest 1 tat send us rolling with laughter on the floor)
There are more that I cannot recall..Will try to compile again when they come to my mind..hehhe
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