Hong Kong English
Hong Kong English - Interview with actor Andy Lau
Play videoAnother example of Hong Kong English, this time with another actor from Hong Kong, Andy Lau. In this interview, I notice [f] replacing the TH in "everything," lack of reduction of vowels in function word like "can", and FLEECE pronounced like KIT.
Another Example of Hong Kong English - Jackie Chan
Play videoThis Jackie Chan interview provides another example of Hong Kong English. I especially notice the morphosyntactic features of the variety, like lack of copula "be" and the lack of -s/-ed tense/plurality suffixes. These features are likely influenced by Cantonese, which doesn't have conjugations or plural nouns like English.
Hong Kong English - Jackie Chan on GMA
Play videoJackie Chan, a famous actor and stuntman from Hong Kong, gives an interview on Good Morning America. His speech is a great example of Hong Kong English. In this video in particular, we see examples of [l] vocalization, TRAP produced like DRESS, and simplification of final consonant clusters.
Joe Wong: Building A Wall Didn't Work For China
Play videoThis video describes a linguistic practice from a Chinese comedian called Joe Wong. I think it is very impressive since he does comedy in his second language. This could be categorized into Hong Kong English since his first language is Chinese.