Lee Kuan Yew: "In two generations, Mandarin will become our mother tongue"

[drifter]

A sinkie colleague was doing presentation together with me in mandarin last week in China, when he spoke, the audience were giggling away, he was using wrong vocabulary everywhere, damn malu for me too!!

hahaha....i can imagine that .

 

[dream_waker]

LKY is the farking father of Singapore who screw us all .

If you don't like to speak Mandarin don't support .

Instead Singapore invested so much China . That; not learning Mandarin is not possible to have a stake there .

Don't just jump on the bandwagon just because
everyone is doing it .

why did you managed to pick up english then? strange...

 

[drifter]

As an ex-Sinkie sheep, I too feel ashamed. My canto is better than most Sinkie sheep but in Hiong Gong, natives just can't understand my Sinkie-accented cantonese. :(

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 ....

 

[dream_waker]

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.

 

[GoldenDragon]

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.

 

[drifter]

The jap are just being polite.

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 .

 

[drifter]

No choice, must speak Singlish then.

yalor ....bo cannot .....

 

[Rimururu]

Fuck LKY for abolishing dialects and forcing Putonghua into everybody's throats.

 

[dream_waker]

Fuck LKY for abolishing dialects and forcing Putonghua into everybody's throats.

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.

 

[drifter]

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 ...

 

[Watchman]

why did you managed to pick up english then? strange...

I am more concern for economic implications
than just language .

 

[wrcboi]

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...

 

[Watchman]

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 .

 

[wrcboi]

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 .

malaysians can speak many languages as well...those mixed ABCs can speak many languages as well....1st grade china people toooo....

 

[Agoraphobic]

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!

 

[drifter]

malaysians can speak many languages as well...those mixed ABCs can speak many languages as well....1st grade china people toooo....

oh yes bro ... not forgetting malaysians .

 

[drifter]

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...

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[johnny333]

I am more concern for economic implications
than just language .

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?

 

[Ramseth]

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.

 

[dream_waker]

I am more concern for economic implications
than just language .

So is LKY.