Last night I watched the online broadcast of the "CBS evening news with Katie Couric." At the very end, Katie said "ming2 tian1 jian4, wan3 an1" with the English subtitle "See you tomorrow, good night" at the bottom of the screen. I was surprised! Well, her tone was funny, but totally understood :-)
Katie Couric speaking Chinese is definitely not an improvisation. Yesterday's evening news program highlighted who's visit of America~~~who? HU....President Hu! And, the last report yesterday was about Chinese language learning in American elementary classroom. So I guess Katie Couric just followed the flow, and lightened the audience a little bit. :-)
Katie Couric speaking Chinese is quite unexpected, though. As an audience of China's most watched prime-time news program for some twenty years, I speak from the gut, that the anchors of CCTV's "Xin wen lian bo" will never ever say "See you tomorrow, good night" in English, even if one day all alive and dead presidents of United States together visit China!
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