Yao's english has gotten ten fold better

pokerpills · Oct 25, 2006

Just saw the pregame interview with him and Mcgrady...man his english has gotten a lot better. It was just 2 years ago when he can barely speak a lick of english and now he speaks it a lot better than some people that have been in the US for over 20 years.

dougstewart · Oct 25, 2006

pokerpills said:
Just saw the pregame interview with him and Mcgrady...man his english has gotten a lot better. It was just 2 years ago when he can barely speak a lick of english and now he speaks it a lot better than some people that have been in the US for over 20 years.

That's good...there may be hope for even you then. "has gotten a lot better"...may I suggest "has improved"? "It was just 2 years ago when he can barely speak"...2 years ago was in the past, whereas "can" is in the present, may I suggest "could"? "some people that"...that is an impersonal pronoun, people are the ultimate persons and "who" should replace "that".

Rawpimple · Oct 25, 2006

So I take it Yao would destroy Ace-Ace on the verbal section of the SAT.

bznofx19 · Oct 25, 2006

I know Vlad Guerrero still cant even formulate a phrase to repeat in any situation like Sammy Sosa did with: "Beisbol has been berry, berry good to me..."

pokerpills · Oct 25, 2006

doug stewart said:
That's good...there may be hope for even you then. "has gotten a lot better"...may I suggest "has improved"? "It was just 2 years ago when he can barely speak"...2 years ago was in the past, whereas "can" is in the present, may I suggest "could"? "some people that"...that is an impersonal pronoun, people are the ultimate persons and "who" should replace "that".

It the rate he's going, he'll surpass me by next year.

LarryTalbot · Oct 25, 2006

Rawpimple said:
So I take it Yao would destroy Ace-Ace on the verbal section of the SAT.

:lolBIG: , I don't get that. Sometimes he speaks normal english like on his tout site, and sometimes it's like a caveman.

SkinsRaj28 · Oct 25, 2006

Yao has actually been able to speak pretty decent English since he entered the NBA...he just relied on an interpreter because he's a perfectionist and didn't want to potentially embarass himself at all in interviews until he felt 100% comfortable speaking the language.

I'm not surprised at all that he sounds good...all international players should strive to perfect the language. It increases their endorsement opportunities a ton.