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President Tsai Ing-Wen video speech at EFTA's seminar
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English Grammar & Usage
Nik1
September 6, 2018, 9:06am
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How do you, native English speakers find this speech?
KongTaigi
September 6, 2018, 2:04pm
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In my humblish opinion:
She was reading from cue cards or a teleprompter
The speech was either translated or heavily revised by a native (likely bilingual) speaker
Edits and cuts were utilized extensively to make the resulting video more fluent
The reference to her foreign PhD dissertation was superfluous in every way possible
The speech was designed to tiptoe around the major issue: independence
What place does Taiwan have in the EU? Why even mention it?
It’s drivel that nobody of any substance will ever hear.
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