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Hello!
I just wanted to say hi and let you know that I really admire your work. Unfortunately, it is somewhat difficult for me to watch much of it lately. I just recently moved to Sacramento from Los Angeles, and though I like it here, there is an extremely limited amount of places that have any of your movies on videotape for me to watch. I just recently went to a store here and purchased four of your tapes, but two of them don't work right. I am trying to start a video tape collection (and perhaps in the future a DVD collection) but I am finding it hard to find your earlier movies on videotape.
I was wondering how you are learning your English? You are doing very well. I saw your interview on The Tonight Show and thought you did great. I have been trying to learn Mandarin for a long time now, but have found it very difficult. That's originally why I started watching your movies. Watching them and having to read the subtitles was such a pain because I felt like I was missing out on the action. Now however, I have a great time because I can somewhat understand. It's funny though, because quite often what they say in Chinese is not the same as what the subtitles say in English. I guess the idioms and other short phrases are too difficult to translate into English. Most of my friends growing up were Chinese so I learned a lot of that kind of thing from them. Anyway, I hope to hear from you sometime. Take care, and best of luck to you now and in the future.
Jennifer Johnson
Jet's Response:
How do I learn my English? Through many ways, through the channels of private tutelage, of casual listening, of interaction with native and not-so-native users of English. I have an English tutor, not just a teacher but a great friend of mine, who teaches me for an average of several hours a day. There is a love-and-hate relationship between the two of us. On the one hand, I am eager to learn the language, to master and absorb it like a sponge - and yet at my age, a sponge is perhaps a bad analogy. It is difficult, and there are times when I feel like your average student, dreading those English lessons, fighting not just occasionally to escape. I sometimes tell myself that learning English is far more challenging than learning martial arts!
When I'm on the set, there is a dialogue coach to correct my pronunciation. Other times, when I'm alone, I study the basics of grammar and vocabulary words. There are lists of them, some of the lessons recorded onto audio tapes. To make learning English more fun, I do read plenty of Hollywood scripts, with the intermittent assistance of my English tutor. Then there are the industry trade magazines, and my favorite subject - Buddhism. Very thought-provoking material, I must say!
