Speak good English? FTs brought in by Govt can’t even speak to begin with!

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September 21st, 2012 |

Author: Contributions

This report from CNA titled Call for Singaporeans to “Make Good English Stick” goes like this:

“This year’s Speak Good English Movement is calling out to Singaporeans to “Make Good English Stick” — a reminder that the skill of using the language effectively and successfully will stick with constant practice.
Chairman of the committee for this year’s Speak Good English Movement, Mr. Goh Eck Kheng, said the movement was launched 12 years ago by then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong and its emphasis has since evolved.
Then there was a need to help people be aware that they need to speak English well…. Mr. Goh said Singlish may be a part of Singapore’s identity, but it cannot be used in an international context.”
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I am wondering if the Government has got it wrong once again.
They brought in lots of Mainland Chinese, Tamils, Thai and Burmese migrants who don’t speak Singlish let alone English. They also brought in Hindi speaking Indians and Filipinos who are contented to speak their home languages and dialects.
Sure, not making them speak the National Language, which is Malay, is understandable. But what about leaning to converse in our working language or lingua franca? How do we integrate given the situation?
Our former PM Lee Kuan Yew once observed:

“China is currently at a ‘disadvantage’ in a world where English is the lingua franca…….If you learn (English) in China, just like the Koreans, you speak to each other in incorrect English, and you won’t make much progress.”
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Isn’t the Government “disadvantaging” Singapore by letting in all odds and sods? What becomes of our lingua franca and National Language in the near future? Will Hindi or Tagalog be added to our four main languages?
Go into the buses or trains and listen to the conversations. Singaporeans no longer speak Malay even though it is touted as our National Language. Our future generations will have to be conversant in Mandarin or Hindi in addition to English to get a job. Singlish will morph into Chinglish or Hindglish. Even better, go to Golden Mile, Little India, Lucky Plaza in Orchard Road, Peninsular Plaza in North Bridge Road or Geylang.
Finally, how to integrate? Perhaps Grace Fu should devote some of her time to teach Basic English than bathing with the Thais and Burmese. Our multi-racial ethnicity is now even more complicated. We once have four races. We now have fourteen. We have lost our National Language to foreign imports. Our Singlish is now endangered and our English threatened.
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Richard Lu
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<CITE class=fn>goodsamaritan:</CITE>
September 21, 2012 at 9:42 pm goodsamaritan(Quote)
do u know that in NTU there are classes teaching in mandarine to accommodate 1000 PRC students for they know nothing or little of english? and they are on scholarship. back then, if u were chinese educated u future already spelled doom. don’t assume ppl on this island are stupid or willing to accept your fxxxing policies

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<CITE class=fn>Piekia's Action Party:</CITE>
September 21, 2012 at 9:51 pm Piekia's Action Party(Quote)
KNN! Talk about English will make my blood boil. I really don’t know what our gahmen is up to. They expect locals to speak and do well in English yet they’re so ever happy and willing to give out scholarships so freely to foreign students whose English are not any better than Spore students’.
Let me share. My niece scored an ‘8′ for her ‘O’ Level and almost didn’t manage to get a place in the Poly despite her scoring quite well in other subjects. After making numerous appeals to various Polys, she finally got a place in an Engrg course at the last minute just before the Poly term started. And after she graduated from Poly with some good results which qualify her into NTU, she was made to sit for an English test by the Uni.
WTH! She told me that her Poly classmates were 90% foreigners, many of whom are PRCs whose command of English were worse than hers. How on earth did those foreign students get their Poly scholarships when my niece almost didn’t get a chance to study in our very own Poly? Is our gahmen out of their mind or what? Are they trying to squeeze Spore students out to make way for the foreigners?

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[SadPlumpGal]

Singaporean men are such losers, can't even compete with PRC who can't speak proper English

But they will fall for PRC women who will suck their money dry and abandon their own wives and kids

 

[Kinana]

the govt is smart, they purposely recruited ft with bad english so that singkies can look good.

 

[greedy and cunning]

most ministars , civil serpents also cannot speak good engrish what.
how you expect other to do so ah ?

 

[Muthukali]

the govt is smart, they purposely recruited ft with bad english so that singkies can look good.

Yes, no need for them to speak as some of their mouth will be stuffed with my black rocket and ended up, bullets fired at own will, with me on top they underneath.