Rich kid Chao showed off his English speaking skills and was criticized for being far inferior to Jenny Huynh?

Chao is no longer a strange name to young people. Everyone knows her not only because of the title "rich kid" because of her great family background, but also because of her brilliance, especially in her academic achievements.

At the age of 17, Chao achieved IELTS 8.0, and a year later she officially passed the entrance exam to New York University (USA) - a school ranked 39th worldwide according to the QS rankings.

Recently, on his personal TikTok channel with more than 2 million followers, Chao made a video "flexing" his English speaking ability. The video quickly garnered more than 2.3 million views, along with hundreds of thousands of likes.

Besides the compliments for her English skills: "Chao speaks English so well", "Love Chao's voice so much", "It sounds really lovely"... there are also There are many mixed opinions about the pronunciation of rich kid.

Some people even compare it to Jenny Huynh. Specifically, an English learning instruction clip of Jenny Huynh and Khanh Vy was suddenly dug up. Everyone complimented Jenny Huynh on her good pronunciation, friendly personality and extremely humble personality.

Back to Chao, under the clip, a comment that received the most "huge" debate about Chao's English ability read: "The pronunciation of an international student... (laughing icon)".

Some people think that Chao's English ability is flawed, more specifically, she omits a lot of ending sounds while speaking. That can lead to misunderstanding the meaning of words because in English there are many words that have the same pronunciation and they only differ in the ending sound. In particular, many netizens also commented that Chao is not really confident when talking in English.

- In many words, I see that Chao has not aspirated the last syllable.

- I think Chao's pronunciation is good, but she's trying to pronounce correctly so she's not very comfortable. There is sound swallowing, but it's a bit of a failure, creating a sense of interruption. There's no emphasis on the sentence, so it sounds a bit flat in some places.

- I expected more from Chao because you got 8.0 IELTS and studied in the US and everything else.

- It's true that when speaking, native speakers will sometimes de-emphasize the last sound, but that doesn't mean they eliminate all ending sounds. I see that Chao almost doesn't pronounce the last syllable.

On the other hand, Chao's defenders say that she is speaking in a way that swallows the sound. Chao is dueting a long English passage. Instead of reading each word, she can pause and emphasize each sound clearly. After all, language is just a communication tool, English is not our native language so it cannot be 100% accurate.

- Everyone can learn about stop consonants. Usually, when people are proficient in pronunciation, they will speak like that, still pronouncing the last sound but not taking out the breath.

- Chao's voice sounds cute so it's not like the girls who read at the airport, but I can understand everything she said.

- After all, English is just a communication tool. We shouldn't judge Chao too much, each country will have a different accent. If you criticize Chao's accent, when you hear English - Indian, English - Thai, English - Korean... you probably won't understand anything.

- Even my Vietnamese, in addition to common Vietnamese, each region has a different accent. I'm from the North and sometimes I don't understand what people from other regions say, let alone when I'm learning a foreign language that's not my mother tongue, it's okay to make a little mistake.

- I studied abroad for 10 years and I affirm that no foreigner "scrutinizes" other people's foreign language skills to this extent. In communication, the important thing is to understand each other's intentions.

For his part, Chao only chose one of the comments "gossiping" that "An international student pronounces... (laughing icon)" as above to gently respond: "What word did I pronounce wrongly? there, can you tell me?".

Up to now, controversies related to this clip of Chao are still attracting attention.

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