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[Sg] - Malay couple eat at Vivo City Chinese restaurant, kena forced to speak Mandarin as both the order chit and waiter no English

The waitress must have got the slit of qipao really high for the Malay guy to be eating there.
 
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Don't forget Scarlett, swarms of Tiongs there, the shoppers, the cooks and the cashiers. And everyone assumes everyone else is a Tiong. :biggrin:
 
Few months ago my estate was having a HIP, the newly smart worker carrier a smart phone, with instant language translation, audio comm went well
 
It's a Xinjiang restaurant

https://alijiang.com.sg/

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U go to chinese restaurant , u speak chinese.What do u expect ?555

Recently, I was at FairPrice trying to find a few items. I asked one of the ATB auntie staff for help, but she just looked at me with a blank expression. She then told me to speak Mandarin instead. The way she said it made me feel as though I was obligated to speak her preferred language rather than being helped in one we could both understand.
 
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Recently, I was at FairPrice trying to find a few items. I asked one of the ATB auntie staff for help, but she just looked at me with a blank expression. She then told me to speak Mandarin instead. The way she said it made me feel as though I was obligated to speak her preferred language rather than being helped in one we could both understand.
That's my gripe with our immigration policy. You want to bring in immigrants, make it compulsory for them to learn English, our lingua franca. My Malay staff get frustrated trying to communicate with PRC folk and Bangalas and Burmese who can't speak English.

Norway and Sweden have imported lots of refugees - Somalis, Kenyans, Syrians, etc - they're given shelter, taught the native language and have to pass a language test before the government tries to hook them up with a job position commensurate with their skills. (My Somali and Polish drivers in Norway speaks fluent Norwegian, their kids grow up Norwegian, and they don't ever want to go back to their homeland.) Canada and Australia have English proficiency tests that all immigrants must pass to get their PR or citizenship.
 
Recently, I was at FairPrice trying to find a few items. I asked one of the ATB auntie staff for help, but she just looked at me with a blank expression. She then told me to speak Mandarin instead. The way she said it made me feel as though I was obligated to speak her preferred language rather than being helped in one we could both understand.
This is happening all over S'pore with more Chinese service staff from Malaysia and China who are not competent in English. They make no effort to learn the language even in S'pore. This is happening even in offices with PMETs who are not fluent or even comfortable in English.
 
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This is happening all over S'pore with more Chinese service staff from Malaysia and China who are not competent in English. They make no effort to learn the language even in S'pore. This is happening even in offices with PMETs who are not fluent or even comfortable in English.

Some PRC students in our local tertiary institutions can't even speak proper English. Just listen to their presentations, you'll feel like vomiting blood. It makes me wonder how they were admitted to the school.
 
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