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ANNOUNCER:
It's time for English Makeover from BBC World Service.
In this series, learners of English from around the world tell us their language problems. And
there's advice for them and you, from experienced teacher of English, Karen Adams.
Clip: Karen Adams
Hi, I’m Karen Adams and I’m an English language teacher and teacher trainer. And over the
years, I’ve helped or at least I hope I’ve helped, hundred of learners to improve their English.
The English Makeover learners will be telling me about their problems and well…I’ll see what
I can do to help.
ANNOUNCER:
Today's learner is Amanda But from Hong Kong.
Clip: Amanda But
My name is Amanda. I’m from Hong Kong. I’m Chinese, and I’m working as a marketing
assistant for a company and I’m enjoying my job and I like do a lot of cycling in my spare time,
and it’s good here in London because I have a lot of opportunity to meet different friends who
come from different countries…
Vicki: In London, Amanda has got friends from lots of different countries and she uses
English with them. She’s also studying English, to help her work in the marketing office where
I went to meet her.
Clip: Vicki interviews Amanda about her English language skills
AMANDA: I’m studying two English evening classes at the moment. One is spoken English,
another one is writing course and it’s great because at work I use a lot of my English skills but
it’s mainly related to what I’m doing but I don’t think I have enough time or enough chances
to talk to my colleagues, for example about movies, concerts or just other leisure programmes.
In my classes I have English native speaker as a teacher and I also have other classmates from
the rest of the world.
VICKI: So you’re in London, you’re working in marketing here and you’re also studying
English on a course in the evening. How long have you actually been living in Britain?
AMANDA: About three years and a half.
VICKI: And why did you decide to come to Britain?
AMANDA: Oh well, that's a story. Actually, I met my husband in Hong Kong and we married.
And I went with him and he got a job and I came with him, that's why I'm here in London.
VICKI: How long have you actually been learning English? Did you learn English in Hong
Kong originally?
AMANDA: Yes indeed. I think I started learning English from my primary school which is
about age 8 or 9.
VICKI: When you first came to Britain did you find it difficult speaking English or
understanding people?
AMANDA: Yes, definitely. I'm very interested in the pop music, especially the Britain's famous
bands. However, having said that I can't pick a lot of conversations from my friends or even at
work or after work. The only thing that I understand English is through the pop songs. I think
first of all it stopped me communicating with people a lot, because once you have an accent (of
course, I'm Chinese and I have a Chinese accent)… sometimes people hesitate a little in
response to my questions or my conversation, and that stopped me to communicate with them
afterwards because I think they don't understand me, and meanwhile I don't understand the
accent as well.
VICKI: OK, so what specific problems do you think you have with your English?
AMANDA: I think I have many problems in English. First of all sometimes I feel quite nervous
when I talk to a native English speaker, especially my manager because sometimes I feel I
don’t know the English style I’m speaking is correct or is a lot of mistakes. So I hesitated, and
when you hesitated you won’t say in a fluent way. So sometimes I feel I’m just not very natural
when I talk to native speakers…

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