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Re: 美国口语发音
Sean, or whoever out there...
I think it is not so "sensible" to spend time thinking about whether you're speaking/using American English or not.
Simply, use good English! Learn what the Englishmen or American learn from and do it well. Don't be a slave and follow so-called trends. Have some dignity and learn well.
We Chinese should not, I repeat, should not follow somebody's social usage pattern and then think comfortably that you are using some kind of "authentic language" and feel great about that. That is stupid to think so or do so!! In fact, when you try hard to say/speak/write the American way, you just tell the world that you do know what language learning is all about and, and you are taking a "slavery way" and let the bloody American to have the full right to judge you, to say whether you are "right" or "wrong" and he, who happens to be an American may turn out to be a lousy language user himself!
You can read Time, learn writings from Newsweek but don't take American English as trendy or whatsoever.
Look into the language itself (English, German, French or else) - it has life as such (meaning structure by itself). Learn it well and you don't need any bloody Americans nor British guys to tell you how right you are... All it takes - be a good learner!
I hate to see Chinese turning out to be slave learners - let me summarize - fuck the trends, fuck the Americans - be a good user and if you're not good enough, don't be an English teacher, don't try to teach people how to learn English.
Just try hard to learn with the right attitude and the right method and at the end of the day, let the whole world judge your English (language) standard - see if you can be an English broadcaster in a foreign country, whether you can acquire a position of corporate communication role in a multi-national company, or be regarded as a good marketing copywriter, or be an English writer online/offline in esteemed publications etc etc..
That's it and let's forget about being American or not! Don't waste time or dignity on learning from the stupid Americans!!!!!! Go, go learning good English, good international English...
Sorry but I need to throw this point out - it's so important!!
Eddie
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