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This is a fun video clip.

How do you learn to speak English if you are a Chinese?

I only want to talk about part of this video clip.

From time 1.04, the child speaks the English words with the help from Chinese characters.

Yes: 爺死: yé sǐ - grandpa dies
Nice: 奶死: nǎi sǐ - granny dies
Bus: 爸死: bà sǐ - dad dies
Knees: 你死: nǐ sǐ - you die
Was: 我死: wǒ sǐ - I die
Does 都死: dōu sǐ - all die
One Dollar: 完蛋了: wándànle - all doomed

(I must admit when I was in primary and secondary schools, I sometimes used the same approach to record the English sounds I heard, and used Chinese characters as my phonetic tool.)