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Still can't speak English


The new V8 commercials make it quite evident that despite having acted in the US for over 15 years he still cannot speak for *beep*

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you try speaking chinese... FOOL !!!!

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Please go away and realize JC was put into a Charles Dickens like school in HK and was not given a formal education. They spent all their time training and he probably received the equivalent to a 6th grade education. Also the abuse on the students would not be acceptable by most modern cultures. I think JC has done very well in learning the English (and Other languages) after he reached adulthood while still managing a full time movie career. Languages are hard to learn after adulthood.

By the way JC has been making American films across 30+ with Battle Brawl and Cannonball Run. (These are not any better than his later Hollywood movies.)

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No excuses..if you're in the country this long..you should be able to speak english as well as schwarzenegger

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Like it or don't like it, the OP has a point. Watch interviews with Jackie from 30 years ago, and you'll realize he shows very little improvement. And indeed, he spent half of the last 15 years making English language movies. Still, very little improvement. I believe it's an attitude problem, he just has no self-confidence in intellectual things because of his lack of formal education, so he doesn't even try.

(This racism thing is pretty ridicoulus, but hell...)

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Like it or don't like it, the OP has a point. Watch interviews with Jackie from 30 years ago, and you'll realize he shows very little improvement. And indeed, he spent half of the last 15 years making English language movies. Still, very little improvement. I believe it's an attitude problem, he just has no self-confidence in intellectual things because of his lack of formal education, so he doesn't even try.
Same can be said for Arnold and he's been in American since at least 1968.

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I quote the man himself from an interview he did in Mandarin a while ago:

"This is my Jackie Chan English. It's the way I speak. If you understand it, good; if not, never mind."

Before anyone calls him egotistical; he's not forcing you to try and get it. He said never mind.

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He's better than Bolo Yeung, who actually knows more English than he likes to let on.

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