Why do the Chinese say "actually" so much when they speak English?

[irman]

Originally Posted by tuteishungry

We can't drive so we need insurance, and we're fantastic at math.

How true, but ...
looks like you can also look at yourself and smile !!!

If just more people could do that part ??

[dougie86]

I'm glad that you notice our world is half fulled of good people irman.
beancounter, you might strike gold moonlighting as a standup comedian.

[Hengist]

In the 70s I used to listen to Radio Tirana on shortwave, and they were always using the expression "these days" in place of "recently". That and ranting on about the Yugoslavian capitalist running dogs.

[Ryuji]

Both 其实(qi2 shi2) and 事实上(shi4shi2shang4) correspond to actually or as a matter of fact in English. It might be too long for them to say the latter.

nege, which is one of fillers in Mandarin, is a short form of 那一个(nayige), and pronounced as neige (ayi > ei).

This kind of assimilations, or palatalizations more specifically, are very common phenomena among many languages.

Day is supposed to be read as D-A-I in English, however, you pronounce it D-E-I because of assimilation (AI > EI).

(Oh, Australians pronounce today as to die. I guess they don't like palatalizations )

dai in Hyundai, is pronounced as de in Korean (ai > e).

sai in Kusai, is pronounced as se(i) in Japanese (ai > e(i)) for informal conversation.