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Lee Kuan Yew: "In two generations, Mandarin will become our mother tongue"
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bro...i told my japanese friend i could speak hokkien , mandarin , english , some malay and canto , thai ...all my japanese friends treat me like a god ....
bro...i told my japanese friend i could speak hokkien , mandarin , english , some malay and canto , thai ...all my japanese friends treat me like a god ....
The jap are just being polite.
speak mandarin lose to PRC
speak english lose to angmo
speak hokkien lose to taiwanise
speak cantonise lose to hongkie
WTF !!!!
No choice, must speak Singlish then.
oh yes ..they are polite ...
dont forget ,japanese ppl can only speak japanese ...thats why they are amazed that i could speak so many languages . many japanese always wanted to speak english ...but they cant and dont have a chance to use it .
He first force english into everybody's throats. Initially people struggled for a while, after that they like it and can't live without it.
You will like putonghua too after choking on it for a while.
no wonder LKY keep choking singaporean pockets testing the limit , anyway ..after a while singaporean will get used to it ...
bro , of course singaporean english is the best in asia and in some part of eroupean countries ....that is the only thing that make me proud being a singaporean .when my japanese friend saw me speaking to angmo in japan ...they go wow.....you are soooooooo cool .
of coz bro...speaking english or singlish to non-english speaking countries like japan makes sporns look more superior...
but if to ABC, BBC, OBC, or CBC....we are like FOBS and low class ...in other words, never learn english properly or wrongly or have very bad pronunciation...
Why are Singaporeans bothered with " low " " more superior " . Instead of what matters most to them .
Like they always get their priorities wrong .
malaysians can speak many languages as well...those mixed ABCs can speak many languages as well....1st grade china people toooo....
Singapore is right in the centre of the Malay Archipelago.
Malay is the National Language. But till now, money talks.
You guys want harmony?
English, the de-facto language of the world was the medium of communication in Ceylon until shortly after independence when Singalese was pushed in its place. Of course, the demographics are different. But you wanna bet on that?
Cheers!
Malay is the National Language. But till now, money talks.
You guys want harmony?
English, the de-facto language of the world was the medium of communication in Ceylon until shortly after independence when Singalese was pushed in its place. Of course, the demographics are different. But you wanna bet on that?
Cheers!
oh yes bro ... not forgetting malaysians .
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The 2nd language policy is/was a distraction & a disaster. How many here struggled with mandarin in school
Think of all the time & effort people wasted trying to learn this language
More importantly how many really need mandarin? Many don't need to communicate with PRC chinese. How many times do you communicate with bus drivers, food handlers,...., that are working in Spore?
The language policy & other PAP policies have driven many Sporeans to find a new home in west. Sporeans are a diverse group: chinese, indians, malays, eurasians,.., how can you force all of them to learn mandarin? Now that we have filipinos, indonesians, indians, etc in Spore do you think they'll want to learn mandarin?
The Japanese have problem with dipthongs and single consonants without vowels. For example, the plural ending -s must be pronounced as su, s can't be pronounced alone. The hard ending t must be pronounced as to, t can't be pronounced alone. Class must be pronounced as kelasu, there's no such thing as cl or kl. The mother tongue and kindergarten drill of rigid Goju-on Kana fixed their tongues and ideas of pronunciation. Only Japanese who have spent some years abroad away from Japan managed to get pass this inherent inhibition. Many Thais and Chinese have the same problem. Malays and Indians have no such problem other than a matter of accent as their languages are quite phoenetically compatible.
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