Steven promoting his 2003 Mandarin album, A Romantic Holiday, in China.
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| 《浪漫假期》 album specially cut for Mainland market |
For those who understand mandarin. This is a 2003 30-minute China
Zhengzhou radio station interview with Steven. Steven was promoting his
1st Mainland, China music album entitled《浪漫假期》Romantic Holidays. Of
all his Mandarin interviews, this was the most fluent I heard from him.
During the interview, the station played several of his new songs.
Transcript on speaking Mandarin and on dubbing @ 18:51
H =Host
S= Steven
H: Actually, Steven, your Mandarin is so much more better than I expected.
S: Actually making this Mandarin album I ...
H: Have you done it before?
S: Actually, way back I did release a Mandarin album in Taiwan, around 1995. Did some promotion there and learned some Mandarin. Later when I returned to Hong Kong I liked to speak Mandarin. Also even back then around 1995 I watched quite a lot of Mandarin tv programs, and often read the newspaper aloud in Mandarin. To me, this is important.
H: Like how we practice broadcasting.
S: Right, I think this is very important. But luckily in Hong Kong I have many friends who can speak Mandarin well so I had them speak Mandarin with me.
H: In your past tv series aired in Mainland they are all dubbed by others in Mandarin?
S: Yes, all dubbed by others.
H: Next time no need to have others dubbed, appreciate both Steven's voice and his series simultaneously, to get a complete Steven.
S: What I'd like to say is this: regardless tv series or movie, if it is in Mandarin I really hope to dub it myself. It maybe that some of my pronunciation is still not of standard precision but I think if I had the script beforehand I would have time to do some homework preparation and during filming I would exert my very best to precisely pronounce the lines because I believe during the acting process, line delivery is a great help, to help you project the emotion and actions.
H: Very true, voice is also part of the within acting. Steven, keep working on it.
