What's a Chinese accent like when speaking english?

Question

Well,some people I know just speak quite perfectly,it's quite amazing.

Answer 1

well I come from China and I can say, my English speaking have no Chinese accent.And a plenty of Chinese can do that too.But the generation of my father's do have an chinese accent when they speak English

Answer 2

From what I know, northern Chinese curl their tongue when they speak Chinese while southern Chinese quite often don't. Therefore northern Chinese could speak English (esp. American English ) with an accent that sounds better than southern Chinese people. The confusing r/l sound should not be heard in the English spoken by any northern Chinese even if they have just started to learn and cannot speak fluently yet.

Answer 3

Chinese speakers have different accents when speaking English, it's true. There are a number of typical characteristics of Chinese accents, though, on both an individual-sound level and on the syllable, word, and sentence levels.

On the level of individual sounds, there are a number of modifications that I won't go into here. On the syllable level, Chinese speakers often remove consonant sounds from the ends of syllables, or add another vowel to the end, so that a word like "made" might sound like "may" or "may-duh". On the word level, Chinese speakers often do not stress the stressed syllable of the word in a way that English speakers are used to, so Chinese-accented English might sound like it has a "machine-gun" sound, a stream of syllables of all about the same length and pitch. On the sentence level also, Chinese speakers may give equal weight to stressed and unstressed words. Chinese uses pitch quite differently from English, so some Chinese speakers change the pitch of their voices much more frequently than most English speakers do. In addition, Chinese speakers often speak in a generally high pitch in comparison to that used by English speakers.

Answer 4

What's an English accent like when speaking Chinese??

Answer 5

It sounds well, bad. I'm a Chinese - Canadian who has lived in Hong Kong for several years, believe me it was quite horrible, the students, fine, that's understandable, but the teachers, no offense, especially some with a lot of grammatical problems...

Answer 6

Amusing

Answer 7

In my experience, L's are R's and the reverse also.

Answer 8

chinese of course!!! what else!

Answer 9

"question for me?" = "kaistion foo miiii""
"dollar fifty" = "dala fiiiifttty"
"trouble" = "trabo"