Friday, March 29, 2024

Bi-lingual weather presentations

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Tick the yes box if you understood all the spoken content of last weekend’s (July 23, 24) TVNZ 1 weather presentations at 6.50pm.

I foolishly always thought that any broadcasting, be it television or radio, was to get the message across to the masses as easily as possible. There are many thousands of bi-lingual speakers in this country, many multilingual.

Many immigrants to this country speak Hindi, Mandarin, Afrikaans and a multitude of European languages as their primary language with English secondary.

If a simple ‘uni’ language speaker such as myself cannot understand a weather forecast, what hope do they have?

What an embarrassment!

Kim Ponse
Cockle Bay

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