CKY vs RC how would you compare?

shadeslayer

原帖由 samsam123321 於 15-03-18 發表
分唔到佢係中國人定英語國家的人。

邊個聽先？

A grandma may think that her local kindergarten granddaughter's English is indistinguishable from a foreigner. Is the girl native?

Although I am not native, my listening in English is ok as I don't need the subtitles in English movies and TV drama etc. One day I heard 2 IS students talking to a local school student and to my ears, I can't tell the difference. Afterwards I asked the two IS girls how good the local boys verbal English was, they said he was very good but they can still detect very subtle difference in some of the words.  Is the boy native?

Shummamapapa

Just personal opinion. Why should we care if our kids talk native English or not? As long as they can communicate himself effectively with people from different countries, and adequate for academic learning, I am satisfied. Even within one country, people speak with different accents. Honestly, IS kids would definitely speak non Hong Kong accent. And more interestingly, with a mixture of people from different backgrounds in the Chinese community, they will speak with an unique accent. If you are really fond of a pur English accent, the most probable thing parents can do, is to send them abroad. I would rather concern with the thinking skills, creativity and world views, my kids would be nurtured in IS.

annie40

回覆 Yeahp 的帖子

甘肯定？
孩子年紀還細的家長是多慮了。如果孩子步入青春期，家長還是堅持今天的意見，也許要認真反思自己有否跟孩子一起成長。

IS孩子有拍拖的情況不會比LS多，就算有，也是成長的必然過程，提醒孩子注意禮儀便是了。

annie40

回覆 samsam123321 的帖子

孩子講話時的禮貌，態度，和語氣，做就孩子的素質。

nintendo

This parent must be a newbie in EK.
Still remember all these years, when anyone said he prefers "british accent", people would actually mock him.
To sum up the past discussions:
There are different people from different countries in IS. Scottish, Australian, Singaporean, Indian, African. Not sure whether these people give you the accent you want?
British accent?
Well, I have never lived in England so I cannot comment on that.
But for the US, there are different accents.
So, chances are you might get the wrong british accent even if you learn from a british teacher.

964000

Sometimes when I talk about native accents, I just mean " non HK accents". You know what I mean.

licpd

here is what wiki says about native language.   
"A native speaker is someone who speaks a language as his or her first language or mother tongue. Native speakers can usually speak the language very well since they speak the language since they were born. A native speaker's language is normally the language their parents speak and the language of the country they have lived in since birth."

Shummamapapa

原帖由 licpd 於 15-03-19 發表
here is what wiki says about native language.   
"A native speaker is someone who speaks a language  ...

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samsam123321

又同大家打對台。個人相信口音非常重要，係邊個國家做野，最好有果個國家口音。

poonseelai

原帖由 samsam123321 於 15-03-19 發表
又同大家打對台。個人相信口音非常重要，係邊個國家做野，最好有果個國家口音。 ...

哦，咁留港工作有香港口音咪啱囉

Artie

原帖由 poonseelai 於 15-03-19 發表
哦，咁留港工作有香港口音咪啱囉

Not sure how to access the accent of all students at RCHK. Unfortunately, my kids probably cannot provide Hong Kong accent.

shadeslayer

原帖由 poonseelai 於 15-03-19 發表
哦，咁留港工作有香港口音咪啱囉

我估佢意思係當地「第一語言」口音。香港人第一語言係廣東話，有鬼佬來香港，有香港廣東話口音，當然無問題。

但這解決不了香港人在香港學英文，那樣的口音才可接受的問題。

個人認為世界上有很多不同的常見口音，不妨礙溝通，沒有問題。我看問題有二：

1。那樣的溝通？

在靜靜會議室談公事上的溝通，到夜晚酒吧強勁音樂下談笑風生，天南地北的溝通，是兩種層次相差很大的溝通。

2。不要讀錯當口音。

shadeslayer

原帖由 Artie 於 15-03-19 發表
Not sure how to access the accent of all students at RCHK. Unfortunately, my kids probably cannot pr ...

I know one RC student who speaks English like a native to my ears.

964000

原帖由 shadeslayer 於 15-03-19 發表
I know one RC student who speaks English like a native to my ears.

RC/ESF/HLYIS等口音我都聽過我都收貨的，反而有同事GSIS口音，覺得有點「怪」，可能個人問題。

samsam123321

一del.

964000

原帖由 samsam123321 於 15-03-19 發表
一般香港人說的英文，永遠都是第二語言，以流利程度比新來港人士說廣東話更差。如果咁都相信自己的港式英文 ...

咁咪留番在香港囉，反正現在至可見將來亞洲機會也不少

964000

原帖由 samsam123321 於 15-03-19 發表
一般香港人說的英文，永遠都是第二語言，以流利程度比新來港人士說廣東話更差。如果咁都相信自己的港式英文 ...

我想讀IS不是為了學英文去㚈國平步青雲，如果下一代想平步青雲，我相信應該學好普通話去復旦清華北大，之後再去英美鍍金。我讀IS主要忍受不了現在的傳統學制和DSE這個四不像。

H_A

Ruth0329 發表於 15-3-10 10:50
我對RC給家長的資料和溝通好有信心，容我少少離題：在報云云IS的admission application 過程，school tour  ...

其實都越講越離題，變左ＲＣ學生英文好唔好的問題。
我女讀ＲＣ的，上年佢去意大利遊學，遇到來自唔同地方的學生，其中有一班來自美國的，成日以為走時我女會同佢地一齊搭機返美國，講左好多次佢來自香港，反而有個美藉華人，班美國人又成日覺得佢要返香港，咁我諗我女Ｄ口音同英文溝通都應該冇乜問題掛。

在家我地係全中文對答的。

shadeslayer

原帖由 samsam123321 於 15-03-19 發表
一般香港人說的英文，永遠都是第二語言，以流利程度比新來港人士說廣東話更差。如果咁都相信自己的港式英文 ...

當香港人學英文好到第一語言程度，咁廣東話就變成第二語言，好似星架波。

shadeslayer

原帖由 964000 於 15-03-19 發表
RC/ESF/HLYIS等口音我都聽過我都收貨的，反而有同事GSIS口音，覺得有點「怪」，可能個人問題。



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其他學校我接觸過小貓二三隻，而 GSIS 學生我接觸不少，口音過不到我個關的，印象中好像沒有。