<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=167462.msg7835469#msg7835469">Quote from: Pumpkin Seeds on 06-03-2013, 19:58:58</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">On the conversation of accents..I do need to find a way to make Jia Li hard to understand.  Really don't want to come off as racist/stereotyping though.  Any suggestions for a Chinese-broken English accent?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Straight from the horses' mouth...<br/><br/>For a non-native English speaker the most commonly made mistakes that are visually and readily available.<br/><br/>1) It is common for Chinese to mistake 'he', 'she', 'him' 'her'.  That is because when speaking in third person the pronounciation is exactly the same, the only difference is the male or female character is paired with the radical for 'man' to indicate gender.<br/><br/>2) There are no verb tenses in Chinese.  Use everything in one tense.  Or you can often misuse tense because there will be a tendency that whatever they heard first.  Normally a present or past tense.<br/><br/>3) Dhi is absolutely correct that tonality is a huge part of the Chinese language.  As a result, most native speakers will have a voice that warbles more.  NPCs and PCs would note it and perhaps mock it.<br/><br/>4) There are no articles like 'the' and 'a' or 'an'.  Leave them out.<br/><br/>5) Idioms and colloquialisms will get blank looks.  In other words, they might know the words but the sentence has no meaning.<br/><br/>These are just a few I can think of, which are very real examples.