I finished my Voice and Accent class last night and noticed a missed call from Ashely, so I called back, while I couldn't quite catch what she was talking...very embarrassed that I could not understand her Amr English! And the reasons? I contributed it to my voice and accent class, where my instructor Chanchal, an Indian woman exerted her effort to prevent us from Amr pronounciations, and filled us with a heavy British Accent! I wanna ask if speaking with an accent is an normal and unavoidable fact, while should we correct one and substitute with another?! But, well, I failed to answer...Maybe she thought, as many Americans in the early 20th Century did, that English Accent is the most delighted accent, which makes every alphabet clear. It took me a long time to adapt to her Indian accent, which is quite Anglified, and no wonder I could not figure out what Ashley was saying. Sorry, Ashley~~~~(>_<)~~~~

 

This morning, I took my international journalism class, the instructor of which is a Chinese man who strived to teach us in bilingual language, namely Chinese and English. He explained all simple things in English, which sounded very strange, in a degree, aweful, say English with a Chinese accent?! My poor ears! And yet, when it came to difficult terms and situations, he would choose Chinese to examplify them. I chuckled in my heart, how interesting a man! Admittedly, his analysis was excellent, and pretty cogent. How perfect it would be if he should explain all in Chinese...sigh...We need to catch up with international etiquette...and English could serve as a symbol...

 

And, the afternoo, I just finished my News Press Regulation and Ethics, the professor of which was from HK, and all her lecture was conducted through an unclear mandarin. Hope I could learn some cantonese from her cantonese accent...

 

Alright, and then, I will accompany Ashley to East Gate to have our dinner...Hope everything right with her when moved from ACC to such a small room in J, which sounds good to us but weird to her who has accustomed to big personal space...

 

SO...whatsoever...it's a strange world...otherwise, how could Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize...

Sigh again...