"Shit"! -20111003

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/VeidOj11Uws/

I am not sure whether I should comment on the video as "Shit"!
There are too many Chinese learning English now, me included. I have spent half of my spare time improving it since 2009.
To be honest, sometimes I was really upset when I could not communicate with native speakers normally.
When I knew someone who was practising or learning a new language, I would absolutely encourage them him. I knew how difficult to start and keep working on it.
Please be patient with to others. Never laugh at others if you know that they are pronouncing or spelling in a  the wrong way.  (or spelling incorrectly)  Correct them in order to help.

I am very grateful for all the friends who have helped me with great patience in the past one year, especially Jeff, Neal, Larry, M, and D.

You're welcome... Don't stop!

Try to use the 'present perfect' more. It will make you sound more natural. We use it a lot when we talk about things that have a relevance to us now. The simple past talks about things that are finished. 

If you say "My friends who helped me.." it sounds like it is finished. They are no longer helping you. But if you say "my friends who have helped me" it sounds like "my friends who helped me up to now."

This tense, using have and has, links the past to the present. Often right up until now. 

"Shit"! -20111003

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/VeidOj11Uws/

I am not sure whether if I should comment label the above video as a piece of crap!"Shit"!
There are too many Chinese learning English now, me included. I spent half of my spare time improving it my English since 2009. To be honest, sometimes I was really upset when I could not communicate with native speakers effectively normally. When I know someone who was practising or learning a new language, I would absolutely encourage him that person. I knew how difficult it is to start and keep on improving working on it.

Please be patient to others. Never langh at others them even if you know that they are mispronouncing or spelling words in a wrong way. Help and correct them in order to help.

I am very grateful for to all the friends who helped me with great patience in the past one year, especially Jeff, Neal, Larry, M, and D.

After watching the video, the message is good but the presentation is wrong.  Utterly pushing the wrong buttons.  In the end, it puts many people off.  It does not come off as sincere because of the gutter language he used and trying to be funny when he is not.  He comes across as some pompous ass.  Just because he had perfected the intonation and able to speak "accentless", he is trying to show off his superiority in the language. I do not know if this is true but it comes across in my reaction.  

 I do not know what his background is, but for one thing I can tell you, is that he does not seem highly educated to me in the video.  Also, there are clues indicating that he is not a native speaker.  For example, the way he pronounces the word, "pronunciation".  It is pronounced as "pronounciation" (by the way is NOT correct spelling).  The correct way is "pro-NUN-cee-ation" NOT "pro-NOUN-cee-ation".

If you really want to hear educated English and enunciation, even when insults are traded, just watch "My Fair Lady", http://www.tudou.com/playlist/p/l2350485.html, Now that's class in how to insult people!

If you want to improve your hearing and speaking listen to the speeches of Ronald Reagan or Margret Thatcher.  Some people have better hearing than others when it comes to imitating the flow of rhythm of any language. There are those who speaks perfect English even when they have a very strong accent.  Marlena Dietrich is one such example.  She speaks with class even in her heavy German accent.  Watch her in the movie, "Witness for the Prosecution" (控方証人) and hear the diction of Charles Laughton potraying as a lawyer.  Without giving the plot away, hear how Marlena speak in a different accent! http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/XG43p6yRBEE/

Learn from the masters and the classic movies. When they opened their mouths, you know that they are people of class and distinction.  I am still learning from them!