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He hated every min of the boring lessons

makapaaa

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Why the sudden 154th propaganda to repudiate the 'old way' of teaching Chinese when up till recently, the PAPee dogs were
gloating about it?


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He hated every minute of the boring lessons

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In secondary school, Mr Khoo had old-fashioned teachers who taught Chinese by having students memorise the words without goinng into their meanings. -- ST PHOTO: CHEW SENG KIM

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There is no love lost between business manager Leon Khoo and the Chinese language.
Having consistently failed the subject in secondary school, he did not even bother to turn up for his O-level Chinese paper.
And despite scoring As and Bs for his other subjects, he chose to further his studies at Monash University in Australia - a move which cost his family about A$56,000 for the four years he was there.
Today at 29, Mr Khoo still remembers his nightmarish years learning the language at the now-defunct St Thomas Secondary School.
'The teachers were very old-fashioned and everything was done using memorisation,' he recounted. 'It wasn't logical. They never went into the meaning of the Chinese words and I could never relate to it.'
In frustration, he copied from his classmates during ting xie (spelling tests), refused to do his homework and did not even bother to take out his Chinese textbooks during classes.
'I hated every minute of it, and it showed. I was so rebellious that I think I was partly responsible when my teacher suffered a stroke,' he said.
Despite his bad experience, he felt compelled to give his mother tongue a second chance after returning from Australia.
He began attending a business Mandarin course at the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry - but lasted just a few lessons before giving up.
'I know there will be more career options if I could speak the language, but I still have a mental block when it comes to Chinese.'
On Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew's recent call for teachers to make the learning of Chinese more fun, he said: 'It's good to know they are trying to do something about it, but it's too late for me.'
Ironically, Mr Khoo is in China this weekend for a business trip.
He has vowed to avoid speaking Mandarin and said he will count on his colleagues to do all the talking for him.


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[FONT=Comic Sans MS,Sans-Serif]I have no difficulties in learning Chinese as my relatives are all Chinese educated except for my siblings and I. Partly, my siblings and I went to the same primary school and taught by the same Chinese teacher. He did not teach us Chinese with English. He taught us the language in a easily understood manner, we have no fear in learning Chinese.[/FONT]
[FONT=Comic Sans MS,Sans-Serif]His background was quite pitiful. He was "labeled" as communist by LKY and was thrown into jail. Like Ho Kwon Ping, he removed his backbone, glided on the ground like a snake, and denounced communism. After which, he survived comfortably as a Chinese Teacher. They had a common voice then and wish to be heard but that old fucking despot denied them. Even though he regreted being a snake as he did not wish to go hiding but he had no choice - Either live comfortably being a snake or be a fugitive to be a man. What choice has he got ?[/FONT]
All in all, he is a good Chinese teacher and I believe there are many people like him during his time but were "murdered" by LKY.
Now, LKY talked about the fun in learning Chinese. Yet, those bastards at Shitty Press Holding had no shame in justifying LKY or rather, Carry LKY's balls in interviewing Adrian Pang and several others that echo that sentiment -- SPH, another fucking bastard !!
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Royalblood

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This guy is a fucking loser man. Give up so easily; typical SG banana! Seriously how hard can it be to learn a new language!? Ok i know it can be extremely difficult to master a new language, but to learn to speak and understand a language to the conversational level ain't exactly that hard.

This guy obviously don't understand business. The way to impress your foriegn business pals is to speak their language. Now that he has to rely on his colleague, i wonder what will he do without his colleague!? I wonder how his Chinese business associates see him!?
 

limpeh2

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This guy obviously don't understand business. The way to impress your foriegn business pals is to speak their language. Now that he has to rely on his colleague, i wonder what will he do without his colleague!? I wonder how his Chinese business associates see him!?

See what? You must be another cock-talker with no ZERO experience dealing with ah tiong$.

The only things Ah tiong$ see in non-PRC chinese business people in China are the $ucker$ to be conned. If you're not angmo it doesn't matter if you speak mandarin b/c they only suck up to angmo speaking mandarin.
 

scoobyhoo

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I remember decades ago in England, there is an innovative way of learning English. In the classroom where all the students are adult men, the teacher ask them to repeat after him while showing a lady model:

"She is removing her bra"
"She is removing her knicker..."
 

Churuya

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LKY is damn scared already. He knows his legacy will not survive him and all the dirty stuff will get dug up. Why do you think a*star is so much into life sciences? It's like the emperor spending billions of dollars for an elixir of life and getting conned in the process.
 

MarrickG

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They have decided to find new ways to teach Chinese is because many of the MIW's children are having problem with the language. They are finding ways so that their children would not lose out in the future.
 

Wang Ye

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Utter rubbish considering I hear the same excuses when it comes to maths. Always the same old lot of excuses lesson boring, teacher boring etc etc. When it comes to language it is all about usage and application.

Joke is I had a fun maths teacher during my secondary school days and I still failed all the way until my' O' levels (I got my A1 for E-maths and my first C5 for A-maths :biggrin: ).
 

kingrant

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LKY still gets it wrong after all these years! He is now saying the teacher should not use only Chinese, but English as well to teach. How to inculcate listening and talking if the teacher has to use English whenever the students cannot understand? How are the students going to get to listen and talk more if they know they can revert to English? Ask any good foreign language taecher, or look into a foreign language school or class, and they'll tell you you have to teach in that language and keep talking and explaining in that language until the students are used to it. I personally found it very useful. It is the constant reversion to English that kills accelerated learnng of a foreign language - be it Japanese, French, malay or Chinese!
 

hairylee

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They have decided to find new ways to teach Chinese is because many of the MIW's children are having problem with the language. They are finding ways so that their children would not lose out in the future.

Correct!Every policy is somehow linked to Old Farts familee welfare.
 

Watchman

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LKY is damn scared already. He knows his legacy will not survive him and all the dirty stuff will get dug up. Why do you think a*star is so much into life sciences? It's like the emperor spending billions of dollars for an elixir of life and getting conned in the process.


Damn right MR Lee. It's the way it going to be .

Last 20 years into manufacturing . Last 10 years chasing the elite's wealth .

40 years too late for the Casinos ? Running out of ideas ?

You think by putting in place lengthy red tape procedures
and extending the learning curve you can impede Singaporeans
from arising from the suppression .

You think by doing on top of all this and getting FTs into Singapore to replace us from all spectrum of jobs and not just mediocre ones you can ensure your party's political survival .
 
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