The woman was born in HK. she is from an American missionary family. Google her father's name, Dennis Balcombe and you'll find her father's church web page with full bio of the family.
Actually her accent and intonation patterns in English show that she has had more exposure to native English speakers than most HK natives. This is illustrated by here question tones when she asks, "Is there anyone? Anyone?").
Sharon, you are awesome! I'm very touched by your commitment to preaching the Gospel to Chinese, not only in HK but also in China. May God bless you always!
She first spoke Mandarin, then Cantonese, then English. Her cantonese is native and perfect. Her mandarin is native but with cantonese accent. Her spoke English with cantonese accent. She is as Chinese as any one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.
Sharon would be the best representative of a beautiful woman from Hong Kong. She speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin so fluently. Her Cantonese is so perfect, so Hong Kong !!! Amazing !!!
@lastplacewin i think its actually pretty common for ppl to speak 3 languages fluently without accent at all. Many ppl migrate from hong kong or taiwan at young age (8 or 9 yrso) and can speak canton/taiwanese + mandarin as well as english. I'm one of those ppl and now i'm trying to learn un poco de espanol!!! learning languages is fun :)
why are people so impressed because she happens to be white and speaks fluent mandarin, cantonese, etc. if a person put their mind and effort, they can achieve many things and it helps to have a good ear for distinguishing the various tones of the cantonese dialect. are u impressed when chinese people speaks fluent english? don't give me the excuse chinese is a much harder language to learn.
@XieTianXieDi888 I'm a native English speaker and I listen to cantonese and mandarin accents all day. Her accent when speaking English does not sound cantonese. She sounds more Portuguese than anything.
there is no such things as easy or difficult, it is relative to the person learning the subject, for example some concepts in organic chemistry may be very hard for me to grasp but for someone from a prestigeous high school or college, it may be relatively simple. nothing is easy or hard, depends alot on background training, childhood rearing, support from friends/family, genetics, strong desire to learn, etc. God blesses her with talents and she is using them.
no really....she has a slight Chinese accent when she speaks in English. very slight but nonetheless noticeable. however, both her mandarin and cantonese are many times more fluent than mine ^^;;.
Her voice and her english sounds so much like my 40 something year old cousin who came to Canada around 10 years old. Living in North America, I take for granted that many of us Asians being 2nd, 3rd etc generation speak perfect english. It totally throws me seeing her and Corina Chamberlain speaking perfect Cantonese on youtube. Just weird.
Wow Sharon, you speak very good Cantonese and Mandarin, and of course, English. I would say your Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin) is much better than a lot of Chinese. Amazing.
@XieTianXieDi888 Can't have everything. It's usually one or the other. Her English is still better than 99% of HK people that learn English. Her parents are american, and her accent is half american half HK.
yes chinese may be a difficult language for some to learn, but everyone's learnig potential is different depending on a lot of factors such as desire, educational background, heriditary, surounding environment (friends or others that might encourage or help u to learn), of course natural God given talent, etc. a foreigner with a powerful chinese computer dictionary can pick up many new words from newspaper or other literary sources. the best is a never say quit attitude even making mistakes.
Lol her cantonese accent is so strong even in Mandarin ahahah, i'm not a native mandarin speaker but she sounds like a real hong konger trying to speak mandarin!
@Vincenthusky she has spent most of her life in Hong Kong and Macau and holds a HK passport (now PRC of course). If she went to the US or UK she'd be as tourist tongue-tied as any Chinese person, I guess.
Her English is very acceptable. The accent isn't strong compared to the Chinese-American comedian Joe Wong. Puts some Chinese to shame for their lack of language skills like Cantonese-speakers cannot communicate with Mandarin-speakers and people speaking English with a heavy Chinese accent...
@wangtub43 well when a native in a country where english isn't the official language, and isn't widely spoken, (e.g. CHINA,) i'd be amazed. (mind you i'm chinese.) '
well i guess if you've spoken cantonese for your whole life, then your english won't be as great. people (including myself) expect caucasians to just automatically speak perfect english, with no accent whatsoever
Exquisite!!
Her father is Pastor Dennis Balcombe. There is a UA-cam video of him.
@andoruJapan she speaks both, mainly cantonese
wow....respect for this girl
where she from?
I love that she's a native Cantonese speaker. You can hear the Cantonese accent in her Mandarin as well.
You can also hear her cantonese accent in her English. Super trippy.
"Even though you might not come here the first time, but God bless you."
classic Chinese grammar. i love it.
NICE..........
好羨慕。。。神真係祝福呀Sharon 識講三個言語
i impress!!!
The woman was born in HK. she is from an American missionary family.
Google her father's name, Dennis Balcombe and you'll find her father's church web page with full bio of the family.
U r awesome---just luv ur cantonese--i'm a non chinese but can speak mandarin-wonder where r u from-??
Actually her accent and intonation patterns in English show that she has had more exposure to native English speakers than most HK natives. This is illustrated by here question tones when she asks, "Is there anyone? Anyone?").
well yes, but it is difficult for many people
Sharon, you are awesome! I'm very touched by your commitment to preaching the Gospel to Chinese, not only in HK but also in China. May God bless you always!
Agreed. took words out of my mouth!
She first spoke Mandarin, then Cantonese, then English. Her cantonese is native and perfect. Her mandarin is native but with cantonese accent. Her spoke English with cantonese accent. She is as Chinese as any one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.
NICAM is so early 90s! lol
Her Father is Dennis Balcombe his is a missionary in China. He's also on youtube
Sharon would be the best representative of a beautiful woman from Hong Kong. She speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin so fluently. Her Cantonese is so perfect, so Hong Kong !!! Amazing !!!
@XieTianXieDi888 because she spent her life in Hong Kong
one word to describe her - BRILLIANT!
OH thats so cool xD she has a canto accent speaking english
very native hk person... =]
A white woman with perfect Cantonese, Mandarin, and English FOB accent. This is seriously intense.
and a cantonese accent when she speaks mandarin!
@lastplacewin i think its actually pretty common for ppl to speak 3 languages fluently without accent at all. Many ppl migrate from hong kong or taiwan at young age (8 or 9 yrso) and can speak canton/taiwanese + mandarin as well as english. I'm one of those ppl and now i'm trying to learn un poco de espanol!!! learning languages is fun :)
omg!! you're right! lol
I would say she's more fluent in Cantonese than the other two, esp. Mandarin. Still, perfect Cantonese by a Caucasian is pretty impressive...
she can't wait to speak Cantonese,her native language. LOL
holy crap!!!!!!!!!!! she's 100% hk
Haha that's true, sometimes it seems weird for an ethically western person to have a slight chinese accent. There is certainly an identity crash
why are people so impressed because she happens to be white and speaks fluent mandarin, cantonese, etc. if a person put their mind and effort, they can achieve many things and it helps to have a good ear for distinguishing the various tones of the cantonese dialect. are u impressed when chinese people speaks fluent english? don't give me the excuse chinese is a much harder language to learn.
that's simply amazing... i love the fact her mandarin has a cantonese accent! awesome :)
her mandarin have canto accent ...just same as mine...haha....it is difficult to speak beijing tone mandarin....haha....
her cantonese is so good, better than mandarin.
@XieTianXieDi888 it's not that heavy, but there is some hint of it. what is more evident is the grammatical errors
Holy cow, I would die to be able to speak Mandarin or Canto fluently, as well as my native english.. but all THREE?!
She's on the ball.
@XieTianXieDi888 I'm a native English speaker and I listen to cantonese and mandarin accents all day. Her accent when speaking English does not sound cantonese. She sounds more Portuguese than anything.
HOLY SHIET~ but dang i thought this was sharon chan. though this is just as awesome. im real impressed. good job!
there is no such things as easy or difficult, it is relative to the person learning the subject, for example some concepts in organic chemistry may be very hard for me to grasp but for someone from a prestigeous high school or college, it may be relatively simple. nothing is easy or hard, depends alot on background training, childhood rearing, support from friends/family, genetics, strong desire to learn, etc. God blesses her with talents and she is using them.
no really....she has a slight Chinese accent when she speaks in English. very slight but nonetheless noticeable.
however, both her mandarin and cantonese are many times more fluent than mine ^^;;.
Her English has a heavy cantonese accent for a caucasian.
cooooollllll, 3 languages at the same time, but anyways, I can do that too, but I am a chinese
wow the cantonese is perfect...
lol "NICCAM"
and lol she speaks english with a canto accent as pointed out by strawberrycram and moonheart!
Wow, Cantonese and Mandarin!
she sang with tears and from her heart to God.
Her voice and her english sounds so much like my 40 something year old cousin who came to Canada around 10 years old.
Living in North America, I take for granted that many of us Asians being 2nd, 3rd etc generation speak perfect english. It totally throws me seeing her and Corina Chamberlain speaking perfect Cantonese on youtube. Just weird.
Oh yes! Her english is perfect and last time I heard, pigs can fly!!
Wow Sharon, you speak very good Cantonese and Mandarin, and of course, English. I would say your Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin) is much better than a lot of Chinese. Amazing.
her english has a chinese accent
omg so that's what she sounds like when she speaks english!! how interesting!!!
wow her Cantonese is better than her English! that's weird, I'd expect her to be extremely fluent in English
@XieTianXieDi888 Can't have everything. It's usually one or the other. Her English is still better than 99% of HK people that learn English. Her parents are american, and her accent is half american half HK.
her english accent = cross between american + cantonese...+ perfect cantonese + very acceptable manderin...kool! a very talented speaker :)
did she say 'nicam'? lol
her English accent is fine. She has a few grammatical errors.
yes chinese may be a difficult language for some to learn, but everyone's learnig potential is different depending on a lot of factors such as desire, educational background, heriditary, surounding environment (friends or others that might encourage or help u to learn), of course natural God given talent, etc.
a foreigner with a powerful chinese computer dictionary can pick up many new words from newspaper or other literary sources. the best is a never say quit attitude even making mistakes.
yes, she does
She is Cantonese.. She speaks it better than me though I am 100% Cantonese.
Lol her cantonese accent is so strong even in Mandarin ahahah, i'm not a native mandarin speaker but she sounds like a real hong konger trying to speak mandarin!
@Vincenthusky she has spent most of her life in Hong Kong and Macau and holds a HK passport (now PRC of course). If she went to the US or UK she'd be as tourist tongue-tied as any Chinese person, I guess.
@lastplacewin great! don't give up.. i know it can feel like a grind sometimes X_X
Her chinese is better than her english.............MIND BLOWN
Why? It's natural because she WAS born and RAISED in HK like any other person in HK. No surprise at all!
Her English is all over the place, but is easily understandable. I still give her credit. Three languages! That's 2 more than me :(
OMG！！！
Her Mandarin, English and Cantonese are all absolutely perfect.
@IggyPiggy23 I can distinguish the difference canto/taiwanese and mandarin, but most white people can't so I think that's a good start lol.
Her English is very acceptable. The accent isn't strong compared to the Chinese-American comedian Joe Wong. Puts some Chinese to shame for their lack of language skills like Cantonese-speakers cannot communicate with Mandarin-speakers and people speaking English with a heavy Chinese accent...
@extrekkie13 cuz she is white?
very HKish, on the phone people might never be able to tell!
she tries 2 use american accent but kinda fails
Hahaha, this is awesome! She can do Mandarin AND English pretty well, although both with a little Cantonese accent, but still good! :D
yea i noe wtf???
@wangtub43 well when a native in a country where english isn't the official language, and isn't widely spoken, (e.g. CHINA,) i'd be amazed. (mind you i'm chinese.)
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LOL her Cantonese is perfect but her English has an accent
It's no surprise. Come on! A lot of us whites can speak Mandarin!
her english sounds fobby haha
FOB english accent LOL mega fail.
well i guess if you've spoken cantonese for your whole life, then your english won't be as great. people (including myself) expect caucasians to just automatically speak perfect english, with no accent whatsoever
Her English doesn't sound Cantonese-like at all...
@XieTianXieDi888 it's not that heavy, but there is some hint of it. what is more evident are the grammatical errors