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It is a disgrace.English is important and Chinese is important.China going to be the next top rising of big nation soon.
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16-06-2009, 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by christmas_  didnt know LKY actually said that...
lol you cannot be blamed coz you Perankan right? | it was in the newspapers headlines de... 
yeah, cant be helped about peranakan but not a good reason to say y chinese lauya ba....little nonya speak mandarin leh...wahahaha  | |
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16-06-2009, 11:51 PM
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Somehow whenever I hear people say that MT is not important at all, it makes me feel so shame of them .. Those people are not grateful to the ancestors who created Chinese as a language
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17-06-2009, 12:06 AM
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agree.. very soon chinese dun know how to speak in mandarin le.. | |
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17-06-2009, 12:10 AM
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Originally Posted by gyccy^^ "English more important, Chinese can Throw Liao", tis is wad one of my gd fren say...
jus bcoz english is far more important in sg, then we can throw away our mother tongue! in my opinion, if u r a chinese, its like a disgrace if u dunno ur own mother tongue language...... somemore my fren is frm a china family! he is borned and lived in sg but his parents r china ppl!(he failed his chinese badly)
WTH! n hu say chinese nt important also?
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Ironically, most people think of not knowing chinese as a disgrace, but as a good thing acting a chinese dumb person.
They feel more honoured of saying, "I don't know how to speak chinese" to show others that they are more English-speaking.
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17-06-2009, 12:16 AM
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Actually we r lucky that we doing dual languages here, eng is a must follow by yr 2nd language. It sad that seem like only chinese is abanding their mother tongue.  | |
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17-06-2009, 01:01 AM
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If ur friend say Chinese can throw .
He/She better dont attend any chinese lesson.
if not He/she is slapping on its own face.
and that's purely stupid
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17-06-2009, 01:06 AM
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Actually the more languages you know the better! 
I know English, Chinese and Thai(Only speaking-wise. Can't read or write Thai)
Anyways, should not throw anyway Chinese.
Coz next time grow up as you know, the market in China is dam big.
So if you can speak Chinese, it's an advantageto those who can't.
Just my thoughts. 
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17-06-2009, 01:07 AM
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Duh, even my friends overseas have to learn chinese, and China'll be the biggest market in the world next time, 不懂華文以後怎麽過日子？真是的。
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17-06-2009, 03:17 AM
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I prefer to continue learning chinese and speaking it fluently, cus afterall, a chinese is a chinese, its just like u are u, no one can change u.
And now with America forever holding on to its ever-enlarging debt, I would now learn to stick my leg in another giant ready to pull my leg out of america if there is this need someday. Sephiroth89 added 2 Minutes and 38 Seconds later... Quote:
Originally Posted by XinGaPoLang agree.. very soon chinese dun know how to speak in mandarin le.. | I am more concerned whether if chinese will know there own dialects next time, its so unique to us chinese. Sephiroth89 added 14 Minutes and 3 Seconds later...
Imagine next time Singapore ah beng cannot say knnbccb, its like not singapore enough. LOL!! 
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17-06-2009, 10:47 AM
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I keep hearing that english is one of the hardest languages out there, but I think german is even harder then english, but almost anyone would tell you that.. but I think it's hard to read Chinese or Japanese | |
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17-06-2009, 10:49 AM
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Even though it is true that chinese is important..
but right now,most job require you be good in english.. | |
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17-06-2009, 10:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Ownage94 Even though it is true that chinese is important..
but right now,most job require you be good in english.. | ya...haiz...now, the moment you are out of China, Taiwan...all English-based 
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17-06-2009, 11:07 AM
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I chinese but i cant speak chinese properly. Teochew and Hokkien can lar... But i understand Eng, Chi, Teochew and Hokkien when people talking.
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I think both languages are important, my mgr is chinese but she dunno how to speak chinese, what a disgrace, even some of the caucasians are learning chinese, even our MM Lee also learning chinese!!
In short, we should all know our mother tongue..
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Originally Posted by samuellau93 I chinese but i cant speak chinese properly. Teochew and Hokkien can lar... But i understand Eng, Chi, Teochew and Hokkien when people talking. | dialects are more complicated than English or Chinese Quote:
Originally Posted by Pinkgrapes2007 I think both languages are important, my mgr is chinese but she dunno how to speak chinese, what a disgrace, even some of the caucasians are learning chinese, even our MM Lee also learning chinese!!
In short, we should all know our mother tongue.. | hey, worst thing is that some Caucasians their Chinese is so much better than us !
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CHINESE IMPT!!! although i failed mine 
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Frankly speaking, back in my adolescent years, I used to hate studying the chinese language. Partly because I could never do well in it and my family and extended family are English orientated, even my grandma (rest her soul) speaks fluent english to her grand children. The only other language that was used was probably cantonese. Which I can proudly say that I understand when someone is conversing in that dialect, but personally having a conversation in cantonese is another matter all together.
As I was saying, yes I used to hate the chinese language. I barely managed to scrape a B3 during my O levels only with private tuition for that. Oh my English scores were only an A2 mind you. I guess languages were never my strong point. When I started to do part time jobs and be exposed into the working society I found that my severe lack of grasp of the chinese language is actually a disadvantage to me. That's cause there are still many Singaporeans who feel more comfortable speaking in their mother tongues ( the working class generation). And to be able to converse with them in their comfort zone would give you a leg up in any working evironment.
But I would like to emphasise a point here. Yes the chinese language is important. However, in Singapore, it would probably work in your favour to have a good command of english with flawed chinese rather than the other way around. Personally I can't speak my mother tongue without sounding funny. And don't even get me started on writing or reading.
But I don't find myself ashamed about it because of my upbringing.
Although the China's the next super power in the global economy. The current global economy is English orientated. Obviously it would be wise to take up the chinese language to be able to take advantage of market there. However you have to realize that they are doing the exact same thing. Alot of the graduates there are taking up the english language to compete in the global market.
I do not think the world will change the international language of communication to suit the upcoming of one country.
On a side note. I get very annoyed with service staff here from the mainland that doesn't understand english. I mean, come on, employers should take note that they ARE SERVICE stafff. Don't employ them just cause they are cheap labour, employ them only if they can actually SERVICE the customers.
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17-06-2009, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by jonaslaso24 As I was saying, yes I used to hate the chinese language. I barely managed to scrape a B3 during my O levels only with private tuition for that. Oh my English scores were only an A2 mind you. I guess languages were never my strong point. When I started to do part time jobs and be exposed into the working society I found that my severe lack of grasp of the chinese language is actually a disadvantage to me. That's cause there are still many Singaporeans who feel more comfortable speaking in their mother tongues ( the working class generation). And to be able to converse with them in their comfort zone would give you a leg up in any working evironment. | sadly, the working generation, younger ones, are using English for communications liao...left those 30+ 40+ and above de using Chinese or dialect during work... Quote:
But I would like to emphasise a point here. Yes the chinese language is important. However, in Singapore, it would probably work in your favour to have a good command of english with flawed chinese rather than the other way around. Personally I can't speak my mother tongue without sounding funny. And don't even get me started on writing or reading.
But I don't find myself ashamed about it because of my upbringing.
| i agree with you. well, English is important in Singapore...lol there also other races other than Chinese and they communicate in English and their other mother tongues... Quote: |
Although the China's the next super power in the global economy. The current global economy is English orientated. Obviously it would be wise to take up the chinese language to be able to take advantage of market there. However you have to realize that they are doing the exact same thing. Alot of the graduates there are taking up the english language to compete in the global market.
| nowadays people in China are learning how to speak English too ! Quote: |
On a side note. I get very annoyed with service staff here from the mainland that doesn't understand english. I mean, come on, employers should take note that they ARE SERVICE stafff. Don't employ them just cause they are cheap labour, employ them only if they can actually SERVICE the customers.
| haha...that time on bus, got one old woman, think she cant speak Chinese, using dialect to talk to the PRC bus driver dont know about what, then the bus driver dont understand what she talking about...at there drag time -_-
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hehe, my best subject is Chinese, got A2 for O levels!! Pinkgrapes2007 added 1 Minutes and 19 Seconds later... Quote:
Originally Posted by christmas_ dialects are more complicated than English or Chinese
hey, worst thing is that some Caucasians their Chinese is so much better than us ! | yeah, theirs are so much better than us, especially caucasians in taiwan, they specially go there to learn chinese, and some even got chinese names!!!
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