I talked about an American presenter pronouncing the capital city of China - Beijing, incorrectly in my last blog entry (see How to pronounce "Beijing - is it a French word? ), I thought I should also talk about the way us Chinese speaking English, just to even out a bit.
As everybody knows, Chinese people very often have terrible problems pronouncing the "R" in any English words, sometimes we just completely leave the "r" bit out and pronounce the word as if there isn't an "R" in it. Just imagine a girl trying to tell her beloved boyfriend how important he is to her, but if she makes this mistake, it could end up like this:
"Darling, you know, to me, you're really really impotant....... " (Impotent)
OUCH!
Also, we easily mix up the "L" and "R". I personally have problems with saying REGULARLY, JEWELRY, RIVALRY ........... etc. I have no problem with "LOVELY" and "RUBBERY" though and don't get the two mixed up, haha.
I also find that most Chinese people can't roll their tongues like westerners do, not surprisingly I had a real hard time when I took Spanish for a year in college , the Spanish say the "R"s in a really exaggerative way and vibrate their tongue like mad when they pronounce it". I was so jealous of the English students being able to do it so putsy, I wanted to grab hold of their tongues and straighten them....
Another embarrassing Chinglish moment was, when I was waitressing (part-time) in a restaurant one night, an English guy kept looking at me and shouted "T, T, T", not sure what was wrong with him, I ignored him at first, but then when I went back to his table after serving the others, he was still saying bloody T,T,T to me. Looking down at the tea point that I was holding in my hand, I realised he was making fun of the way I said "Would anyone like some tea...." But instead of saying "tea", indeed I was saying "T", in a short cute way. I felt like pouring the remaining tea in the pot on his head. But at least from then on, I make sure I say it right and delibrately drag the "ea" bit as long as I can so that that sort of embarrassment doesn't happen again. 
