Thanks to Shawn.Lin, while browsing his link in another thread, I came across this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OHtl1udSs8
It is Taiwanese Hokkien Speech Contest, the foreigner (angmoh) in the video clip has a native accent!
Foreigner with native Taiwanese Hokkien accent
Foreigner with native Taiwanese Hokkien accent
Hi everyone
Thanks to Shawn.Lin, while browsing his link in another thread, I came across this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OHtl1udSs8
It is Taiwanese Hokkien Speech Contest, the foreigner (angmoh) in the video clip has a native accent!
Thanks to Shawn.Lin, while browsing his link in another thread, I came across this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OHtl1udSs8
It is Taiwanese Hokkien Speech Contest, the foreigner (angmoh) in the video clip has a native accent!
Re: Foreigner with native Taiwanese Hokkien accent
Hi niuc,
Thanks for posting this. Yes, VERY impressive indeed. Sadly, there's no information on whether he actually acquired his Taiwanese as a child, or if he learnt it later in life. If it was after 15, then it would be very impressive (though *exactly* how impressive I don't know, as I don't know the accent that well).
Some of the related links are quite interesting too. The "trouble" with youtube is that I start clicking on related links, and in no time, I'm in a different subject area, totally unrelated to Hokkien!
Thanks for posting this. Yes, VERY impressive indeed. Sadly, there's no information on whether he actually acquired his Taiwanese as a child, or if he learnt it later in life. If it was after 15, then it would be very impressive (though *exactly* how impressive I don't know, as I don't know the accent that well).
Some of the related links are quite interesting too. The "trouble" with youtube is that I start clicking on related links, and in no time, I'm in a different subject area, totally unrelated to Hokkien!
Re: Foreigner with native Taiwanese Hokkien accent
Hi everyone,
Was wandering around youtube, and came across this link (and lots of related ones by the same guy).
http://www.youtube.com/user/Glossika#p/ ... amIn3hH_LM
In one clip he introduces himself as Mike Campbell, and his nick on youtube is "Glossika". Furthermore, besides Taiwanese, he seems to do clips for Hakka, Mandarin, and a number of other varieties of Sinitic as well.
This makes me very strongly believe that he's the guy who once started the Glossika site on Sinitic Languages. On that site, there were lots of tables showing the 8 tones (2 x 4) of Chinese, as reflected in all the descendent languages. Furthermore, the surname Campbell stuck in my head, from the days when I used to consult the site. I was very impressed with it in the old days, but after a while, it seemed to have been bought over by some commercial language-teaching company, and then never got updated or properly maintained after that (which was a real pity).
In any case, he seems to have a very good accent too. To me, he seems to have consciously learnt tones, as one can notice that he sometimes makes mistakes and then corrects them (perhaps mentally very quickly applying tone-sandhi rules, and sometimes not getting the rule right, or reading tone marks, but executing them slightly incorrectly sometimes). Nevertheless, spectacularly good accent too, IMHO.
Was wandering around youtube, and came across this link (and lots of related ones by the same guy).
http://www.youtube.com/user/Glossika#p/ ... amIn3hH_LM
In one clip he introduces himself as Mike Campbell, and his nick on youtube is "Glossika". Furthermore, besides Taiwanese, he seems to do clips for Hakka, Mandarin, and a number of other varieties of Sinitic as well.
This makes me very strongly believe that he's the guy who once started the Glossika site on Sinitic Languages. On that site, there were lots of tables showing the 8 tones (2 x 4) of Chinese, as reflected in all the descendent languages. Furthermore, the surname Campbell stuck in my head, from the days when I used to consult the site. I was very impressed with it in the old days, but after a while, it seemed to have been bought over by some commercial language-teaching company, and then never got updated or properly maintained after that (which was a real pity).
In any case, he seems to have a very good accent too. To me, he seems to have consciously learnt tones, as one can notice that he sometimes makes mistakes and then corrects them (perhaps mentally very quickly applying tone-sandhi rules, and sometimes not getting the rule right, or reading tone marks, but executing them slightly incorrectly sometimes). Nevertheless, spectacularly good accent too, IMHO.
Re: Foreigner with native Taiwanese Hokkien accent
Hi Sim
Yes, I don't know the info either. Personally sometimes I still sense that his is not 100% native accent, but very very close. I think one who learned as a child would have even smoother accent. His pronunciation is not 100% correct but the amazing thing is his accent, even when he was thinking what to say.
Mike Campbell of Glossika indeed has marvellous linguistic talent. However his accent still sounds a bit "ang-moh" to me.
Yes, I don't know the info either. Personally sometimes I still sense that his is not 100% native accent, but very very close. I think one who learned as a child would have even smoother accent. His pronunciation is not 100% correct but the amazing thing is his accent, even when he was thinking what to say.
Mike Campbell of Glossika indeed has marvellous linguistic talent.
However his accent still sounds a bit "ang-moh" to me.