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Old Dec 29, 2014 | 11:10 am
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Originally Posted by tentseller
In all my DL flights to HKG I still have to find an FA who can do announcement in Mando and Canto properly.
Originally Posted by spudley007
Agreed, and I'm not sure why it's so difficult to find some native speakers to make the announcements. I'm sure there is more to it.
The preflight announcements are read from a script; which made the butchering more amusing. You and I would know that one cannot just translate Mando<>Canto character by character.

I know that CX and AC will actually test your language ability at a very high proficiency level. A niece of mine failed the AC French part of her test but qualified with CX proficient in English, Mando and Canto.

As for me, I use the DL Mando/Canto announcement as IFE!
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