跟讀練習: Why McDonald’s Flopped In Vietnam - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Fast food restaurants dominate markets all over the world.
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Burger King has more than 16,000 locations in over 100 nations.
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And McDonald's has over 36,000.
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There's one in a decommissioned airplane in New Zealand,
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and there's even one in Vatican City.
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Fast food is a more than half a trillion a year business.
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But there's one place where these chains can't seem to take off,
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and that place is Vietnam.
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Here's why McDonald's and Burger King are failing to find a mass following in Vietnam.
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There was a lot of hype when McDonald's first opened its doors in Vietnam in 2014.
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The launch drew crowds of locals who waited hours to get their hands on a Big Mac.
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But fast forward to today and the hype has slowed way down.
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McDonald's, which launched in Vietnam in 2014,
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has only 17 stores there.
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And Burger King, which entered the market in 2011,
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has only 13 as of 2018.
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Failure to capture the attention of the Vietnamese market was odd,
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given that these burger chains had previously been met with success when expanding into Asian countries.
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McDonald's has seen tremendous growth in countries like China and Japan.
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where it has thousands of storefronts in both countries.
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And Burger King has grown its franchise in Japan from 12 restaurants in 2008 to 98 last year.
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McDonald's is ranked second out of all foreign fast food in mainland China behind KFC,
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and Burger King is ranked fourth.
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But Vietnam was a different story.
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When McDonald's finally entered the Vietnamese market in 2014,
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it planned to open 100 stores in Vietnam within 10 years.
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But so far today, it's only launched 17.
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The same thing happened to Burger King.
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The company invested $40 million in Vietnam in 2012,
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with the goal of opening 60 restaurants by 2016,
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according to Vietnam Business Review.
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And as of 2018, there are just 13 Burger Kings in Vietnam.
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Both McDonald's and Burger King did not respond to CNBC's questions about why they face such trouble breaking into the Vietnamese market.
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Fast food in the States is popular because you can get it now.
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Vietnamese food is the same thing.
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If you go to street vendors,
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you can get your bowl of pho or your banh mi also maybe even faster than McDonald's.
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So that kind of defeats the value proposition of fast food in Vietnam.
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But part of the problem seems to be that fast food giants underestimated their local rivals.
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Vietnamese diners are spoiled for choice in top tier cities like Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City,
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which has made it tough for international fast food chains to compete.
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For the Vietnamese, we have our banh mi sandwiches,
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and those sandwiches are sold on the streets at rock bottom prices compared to McDonald's and Burger King.
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According to the European Commission,
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Vietnamese consumers dedicate a sizable portion of their income to food.
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And of that money spent on food,
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78 percent of that cash went to local vendors, street stalls and kiosks.
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Just 1% went toward fast food restaurants in Vietnam.
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Vietnam's food service sector has over 540,000 outlets.
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Over 430,000 outlets are local vendors and food kiosks.
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There's nearly 80,000 full-service Vietnamese restaurants and almost 22,000 local bars and cafes.
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But as for fast food chains,
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they account for just over 7,000 outlets in Vietnam.
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Fast food chains are so outnumbered in Vietnam,
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partly because of the severed diplomatic ties between the U.S and Vietnam.
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After the United States withdrew forces from Vietnam following the war in 1973,
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all diplomatic relations were severed between the two countries in 1975.
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It wasn't until 1995 that the United States and Vietnam mended fences and opened the door for trade.
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If you know anything about the history of Vietnam,
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like the last 30 to 40 years,
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there was a lot of growth,
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but only really in the last 20.
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A lot of storefronts are literally just people's homes.
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They'll live upstairs and they'll just convert the downstairs into any sort of street-bending option.
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In 1997, KFC was one of the first American brands to open up shop in Vietnam,
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but it was entering an already crowded food market.
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It took seven years for KFC to open just 10 restaurants.
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So KFC changed course and updated its menu to better fit local tastes.
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The brand introduced the KFC chicken rice and the KFC shrimp burger for Vietnamese customers.
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And today, the company has 130 KFC stores in 21 Vietnamese cities.
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But the hefty price tag for KFC meals seemed to be worth it for customers.
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But comparatively high prices weren't unique to KFC.
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McDonald's and Burger King's prices are also considered to be at a premium compared to local vendors.
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Local vendors can feed twice as many people as a single meal does at Burger King and McDonald's at half the cost.
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But these high prices are only part of the problem for McDonald's and Burger King.
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The way food is served in Vietnam has a lot to do with it.
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When Americans go to a restaurant,
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they normally find something on the menu that they like and order it for themselves.
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In Vietnam, it's more of a family-style serving experience.
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Burgers have a tough sell in Vietnam because they're not really a food you want to share.
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There are basically two rules.
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I mean, first rule is you need to be able to share the food.
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Second rule is it needs to be chicken.
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When you then look at the burgers,
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it's not chicken, it's not terrible.
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And I think it's just not a cuisine that is exciting to the Vietnamese.
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And it doesn't look like things will be getting better for fast food chains anytime soon.
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More Vietnamese customers are retreating from fast food chains each year.
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Traffic to fast food chains dropped 31% from 2016 to 2018,
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while visits to street food vendors were up 70% during that two-year span.
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But not all fast food chains have failed to appeal to locals.
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Just take KFC and Pizza Hut.
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McDonald's and Burger King make up 2.8% of the total share of foreign fast food chains in Vietnam.
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But KFC makes up 11.4% and Pizza Hut makes up 21.3%.
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McDonald's and Burger King aren't giving up just yet.
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The companies have made efforts to adapt their menus to reflect the cultural influences of Vietnamese cuisines,
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like the grilled pork rice with egg from McDonald's and the fish-rice combo from Burger King.
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Experts say that it's going to take a lot more than revamping a menu to compete with
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so many local foods crowding the market space.
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With the popularity of fast food in Vietnam on the decline,
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McDonald's and Burger King have a hard future ahead when it comes to satisfying the Vietnamese tastes.
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本課介紹
在本課中，您將通過分析麥當勞在越南的失敗案例來提高您的英語聽力和口語表達能力。您將學習與市場進入、快餐文化、本地競爭等相關的重要詞彙和表達方式。這將有助於您在雅思口語練習中更自信地表達自己的觀點，並提高您的英語發音技巧。
關鍵詞彙與短語
- 快餐 (fast food) - 一種快速提供的食品型別，通常包括漢堡、薯條等。
- 市場 (market) - 指經濟活動的集聚地，包括買賣商品的地方。
- 本地競爭 (local rivals) - 指銷售類似產品的本地企業或商家。
- 消費者 (consumers) - 向商家購買商品或服務的人。
- 食品供應 (food service) - 提供食品的商業領域，通常涉及餐館、攤位等。
- 價格 (prices) - 商品或服務的定價。
- 選擇 (choice) - 可供選擇的多樣性。
- 期待 (expectations) - 對某事發生的預期或想法。
練習技巧
在觀看本影片時，您可以採用以下陰影練習技巧來提高您的英語發音：
- 使用shadowspeaks方法：儘量模仿影片中的語音速度和語調，慢慢調整到他們的節奏，幫助您提高英語發音。
- 注意語音的重音和輕音，尤其是在討論文化和市場等重要話題時，強調關鍵詞可以使您的表達更加生動。
- 可以嘗試和朋友一起看影片，然後交替模仿彼此的發音，進行有效的口語練習。
- 在觀看時，暫停影片並重復表達有挑戰性的句子，這樣有助於更好地掌握髮音和流利度。
- 充分利用看YouTube學英語的資源，通過反覆練習，您會發現在雅思口語練習中表達更加自如。
通過以上方法，您將能夠在實際對話中更自信、更流利地表達自己的觀點，探索關於吃的文化並加強您的語言能力，向目標衝刺！
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | been met · is ranked · are sold |
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | has slowed · has seen · has grown |
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。