chinese singaporeans be like...

jokes on me bcos my chinese isn't amazing either....🤡🤡
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[@Funkybassuk]

“and even your English isn’t that good” 😂 Ouch!

[@prism6]

Even I feel called out by this. And I'm not even Singaporean. Or Chinese.

[@yqweqwun7390]

This happens in my country too, english in my country has become a symbol of status, so when they say I cant speak local language its showing off "ooh im an elite educated in a (english medium) grammar school my (local lang) is bad aah sorry "

[@matreen427]

except that in Singapore those from top schools (most) are effectively bilingual.

[@taalatchouf5427]

I'm filipino and can relate.

[@bbeng8166]

Exactly what you said, especially the part about the bad English.

[@yarenot9878]

Savage🤣 I felt that burn🔥

[@rokshane3142]

sis knew she had to say it and she did stan a good queen😌 btw i feel like this applies to the people who speak other languages as well, like tamil for eg

[@WenDlovedbyJesus]

imagine..a French guy saying he can't speak Francais.. my first immediate thought.."Loser.." There goes the same for those Chinese Singaporeans that think it's cool to not know your mother tongue..忘本 is the word..a no-no

[@deioped]

Be careful not to cut yourself on that edge.

[@Sifei-up1ld]

Can relate to this. I’m not Singaporean but I can speak English and Chinese. Sometimes i feel offended when I strike up the conversation in Chinese and the person reply me in English (with their eye rolled). I can understand that not every Sporean Chinese can speak good Chinese and prefer to speak English, but please at least give me some respects when I’m doing Chinese 😅

[@Sifei-up1ld]

And also there is a time when a person finding out I’m doing my undergrad degree in the uk and then be like ‘oh that’s why you can speak good English’. I don’t think it’s a compliment honestly. It’s just a stereotype towards people from other countries.

[@pyt6631]

For a while I thought we are on the contradictory sort where action doesn't match words: "Hahaha my Chinese is not good" -- Shops almost everything on Taobao every month including customized items --

[@JoanKSX]

Wow, but how? Google translate... on Taobao??????

[@pyt6631]

@@JoanKSX it's an example of humble bragging (or conflicting personality?) "hahaha I really not good at this"-->proceeds to show proficiency

[@JoanKSX]

@@pyt6631 Oh like 'Hahaha my studies sucks' ------ top 10 every high school year among like 500 students in a top school... Hmmm sounds pretty true...

[@user-dv1ov5bs3v]

I'm Singaporean and Chinese and I feel called out...

[@practicalgigabit769]

lol Tosh Zhang also scolded them too.

[@rdu239]

But I think Hokkien and Cantonese are more commonly used in casual everyday conversation in SG, most of the time its broken Mandarins here and then

[@Pretzelicious1]

Singlish has a lot of cantonese and hokkien words

[@zba1010]

I feel called out by this. And i am just a filipino person who was raised in singapore and had to learn mandarin for some reason when i was growing up lololol

[@Ling_Ling2U]

Yeah im not good at mandarin man because i need to take hakka and hokkien lessons most of the time

[@jonathanlim9541]

WHAT A BURN. I LOVE IT. Im Here FoR more PeRsonAL AttacKs.

[@silverchairsg]

No. I don't define myself in terms of my ethnicity.

[@jarryl755]

Nah i aint ashamed, I'd win

[@yxinz]

Exxxxactly. I’m proud to be bilingual.

[@jeneuweenlaf948]

Preach it, Sista!

[@carr16k]

The fact is if these people go to western countries, high chance the locals don't understand their English too.

[@lianxie5582]

Learning a language in school will never give you perfect fluency. It’s immersion in a native speaking country that cements learning. And calling Singlish a dialect of English is misleading - it’s a creole made up of so many other important languages.

[@k1m1sensei]

I'm just myanmar and I can speak both in lookin forward to become a writer and trying to learn Japanese

[@anootnoot7192]

is this the chinese singaporean equivalent of us mexicans and the no sabo kids?

[@reshamsinghmaan2739]

Sister you scared me 🤣🙈🙈

[@Hanzo_FN]

Im chinese indonesian and i only can speak english and indonesian but i can't speak chinese😂

[@emrekavcoglu2978]

Uncle, I hope your health is good.😂

[@inumusha7108]

That's true. I am a Chinese Singaporean and I do have some Chinese Singaporean friends who are bad in Chinese and makes no effort to improve their command of the language. They will give excuses that Chinese is very hard to learn and their Chinese 'just cannot make it'. Needless to say, they also cannot speak their own dialect. I just feel they have lost their cultural heritage and that they are also shooting themselves in the foot when Chinese is going to be a very important language with the rise of China as a global superpower. Together with the irony that I have foreign friends (Caucasians and Koreans) who are learning Chinese and can speak better Chinese than these friends of mine.

[@adlerzwei]

"Rising global superpower." Nice one 🤣

[@munchoyomangoes]

Literally me as a chinese australian who goes to mandarin lessons (8 years) but still cannot speak 😢

[@whoskira]

T h i s i s m e Ngl I’m actually singaporean and I can’t speak Chinese that well 🤪

[@carr16k]

It's nothing to be proud of.

[@whoskira]

@@carr16k well, its my opinion. Not yours. I can say whatever I want to say abt myself, and it gives you no right to decide what I should say.

[@carr16k]

@@whoskira my point was never about not allowing you to voice your opinion.

[@whoskira]

@@carr16k Then what was it?

[@whoskira]

If it is what is true, then you have no right to change it.

[@lianxie5582]

If you never work outside of Singapore, Singlish works perfectly. You don’t *need* another language.

[@HANNAHHAAAAABANANAAAAA]

AY AS A CHINESE SINGAPOREAN I CAN RELATE 🤣

[@BobbyDazzler888]

Your engrish is perfect-la

[@shehzadchowdhury8327]

Chinese isn’t mother tongue it’s heritage language for Chinese Singaporeans

[@quekfamily9973]

I say that daily. Bruh chill. I am only 9

[@rajalakshmi1121]

Lol My Tamil is D My English is u 😅😂

[@MultiSciGeek]

Nah bruhh. Natural melting pot dynamics. I love it! 🇸🇬❤️

[@leaosly]

im so scared

[@pavementpounder7502]

Mandarin isn't even the mother tongue of most Chinese Singaporeans.

[@notlesser]

So true sia

[@timonfischer6515]

Its okay, just say hero and prease a lot.

[@user-tn1wd4ir6c]

My mother tongue is Cantonese 🤣🤣🤣

[@AnnetteLeeMusic]

this is fair enough! haha i think i spoke better hokkien than chinese growing up actually because i lived with my grandparents who spoke that

[@zhiqianwen]

But Cantonese is Chinese😂 what is your point?

[@jdshl8423]

Aiyah, I kanna called banana dunno how many times already lor. When anyone speaks Chinese to me, my head hurts and I just wanna walk away you know, but I don't wanna be rude so I just try and converse in whatever broken Chinese I can muster.

[@latia876]

Sounds like my mother 😂

[@ainmiky4620]

HAHAHA got calles out

[@amorayyyyy]

Well, I can speak in proper sentences but I always have to explain to others what I meant.

[@tommyGeylang1637]

Fully agreed

[@coconutwombats]

Me in hcl be like

[@deadpool113]

Really? Then why every Singaporeans spoke to me in Chinese when I travelled there? I needed to learn basic chinese and hokkien on yt😂

[@lauarwen]

I'm sorry mum

[@alvinchong2278]

Wah damn so true!

[@healthyliving7226]

Singlish is a language of itself or a dialect of english.

[@healthyliving7226]

Mother tongue is debateble, since mandarin is the mother tongue of northeners

[@malita354]

Sad but TRUTH!🤣 eg. Jia Berng means eat rice. But someone singaporeans added a K at to Jia becoming JiaK Berng. Sadly while not absolutely every singaporean cannot speak in pure language of any language, many many do not speak pure language of any language. Eg. Hokkien person cannot speak pure hokkien. Jia Tsai becomes Jiak Tsai eveb though its pronounced without the K

[@angsern8455]

Not everybody can speak lau hokkien, only old people in SEA can speak it now, I only know a guy from Thailand that speaks it

[@lianxie5582]

And that’s ok :) Singlish doesn’t belong to English, Mandarin, or Tamil - it’s a creole especially by and for Singaporeans.

[@VChong1991]

True.

[@zhiqianwen]

It it funnier considering her accent

[@jxuann89]

While Marvel American Chinese actors speak better...without receiving formal Chinese education

[@icedwater]

Totally. Maybe let's not shame people who can't speak an imposed mother tongue - we've lost our "dialects". And a "bilingual" education is of little use when the second language is only used during that lesson - maybe less than 10% of the week - and everything else is in English. Let's help each other improve :)

[@lianxie5582]

Technically, Singlish is not English - linguists categorise it as a creole involving many other important languages :)

[@icedwater]

@@lianxie5582 that is true, though I'm sticking with the "basilect of Singaporean English" until we get official Singlish grammars and textbooks :)

[@lianxie5582]

@@icedwater Ok so you see it as a variety holding less prestige. Your point would stand if a language can’t exist without being written down. English spelling wasn’t even standardised until the late 1500s. For thousands of years, languages had sophisticated grammar systems without any textbooks. Creoles always have a main language for vocabulary, and a different one for grammar etc. This unique mix makes them special and distinct. I don’t believe Singlish needs to be a type of English to be important.

[@icedwater]

@@lianxie5582 sure, but maybe stop inventing points you think I'm making? I agree that Singaporean English and Singlish are distinct entities, even if one can be said to be the lower prestige "variety" of the other. Here are some points I'd like to make: a) we can do better for and with one another by not shitting on our proficiency in imposed languages b) the "bilingual" system as it is helps but is insufficient for doing anything besides promoting English, against which the ground up resistance is still winning - hence the continued need for "Speak Good English" campaigns c) Singlish is already important without being codified, it's just something I have been dreaming of for some time. d) We should make more effort to rediscover our own cultural heritage (Boyan, Hakka, Shanghainese, Peranakan, etc) to properly site ourselves in the evolving Singapore landscape. e) If we don't do (d) then we're at the mercy of whichever cultures dictate our day-to-day language. As a small and young nation, we'll struggle anyway, but let's not get washed out by whichever trend is sweeping the world at the moment.

[@richyzhang3637]

more clariso tong plz

[@KazWowza]

Say it louder!!!! You have no idea how many Chinese singaporeans I've come across who has said that and yes they still can't speak or write properly.

[@somerandom7672]

对不起

[@LS-Warriors]

ANNETTE LEE YOU WENT TO MY SCHOOL

[@hamakawa]

無啦，過半个新加坡人个母語應該是福建話，毋是北京話。

[@lyhthegreat]

那就更加死，很多人连自己的方言都不会说。。

[@happykeyboardmusic7868]

Laugh die me😂😂😂

[@brianljh8982]

Who cares? Language is just a medium for conversations. If you can only speak one language then thats fine, no harm. And if you want to learn more than one language and improve on it then thats your choice. Having bilingual education doesnt always guarantee your citizens will be bilingual 100%, there are more factors at play.

[@angsern8455]

There's also a cultural aspect

[@lianxie5582]

I think only speaking Singlish makes perfect sense if you want to stay in Singapore forever

[@jvr6272]

It’s funny how some Chinese Singaporeans have such thick Singaporean Chinese accent but can’t speak Chinese, then where did your accent come from ? 😂😂😂😂

[@angsern8455]

Accent can be learned without speaking the mother tongue behind it. Heard a story of a girl that speaks in a British accent when both her parents were American, they spoke in the British accent Infront of her whilst showing her Peppa pig and she copied it.

[@lianxie5582]

Outside of Singapore, it’s difficult :) Singlish monolinguals might not have perfect grasp of any one language making up their native creole, but that’s ok.

[@jvr6272]

Yeah and also Singaporeans discourage other Singaporeans speaking in proper accent cuz Singlish is just part of their identity, but it just sounds annoying ..

[@Weeping-Angel]

Damn. You are exposing 😢

[@albert_intheloop]

Never heard you speak chinese also

[@delphinegoh9056]

“你几多钱啊？ 还是跟你老母一样，脚开开免费？”以如果要买，在马国钱币不值钱哦🤭

[@quoccaonguyentran4685]

Maybe because Mandarin isn't y'all type of Chinese since most of Singaporean are Hokkien or Cantonese ? It's kinda like shaming Tamil for not be able to speak Hindi very well.

[@cocaineminor4420]

Bruh even the hokkien people in china can speak mandarin What a shame lol 😂😂😂

[@admaiusbonum977]

Sinkies are hopeless lmao

[@admaiusbonum977]

The plebs of course

[@Messwithink]

What kinda English accent is it

[@user-jd9wp1gf6w]

Wait so Singaporean Mother tongue is Chinese?

[@thelias91]

Mandarin is not the mother tongue of 99% of chinese ancestry in sg, (but hokkien, cantonese, teochew, hainanese, hakka...) . So this is not their real heritage....

[@butterflies8544]

Let's all blame the teachers

[@thankhun]

Hello I am your new friend

[@TrashSmile]

Lol! I’m one of those whose Chinese is quite terrible, even though i studied it for like 10 years of my life. My English is better than most. Talk about bananas.

[@SGgoofy]

How to say mandrin in华文?????

[@angsern8455]

话语or普通话

[@TheJayJayYoung]

It’s Mandarin. 可称为中文，华语，国语或普通话。

[@guessig]

ay 我中文不呢么差lei

[@freddie792]

Malaysian Chinese generally need to speak 3 languages plus one dialect at least …

[@jaechia4359]

no need to be savage, u can speak Chinese meh?

[@dunamiswihmee]

Well to be fair Chinese is probably the hardest languages to learn is it not?

[@jxuann89]

Tell that to the Chinese

[@rerrr2215]

Sorry, I have absolutely no interest in it

[@Messwithink]

Singlish is the worst

[@hannekehartkoorn5987]

Well, if you can't speak it, it can't be your mothertongue. Singapore English is a language in its own, it is not 'bad' English, and it can very well be your mothertongue. Looking Chinese does not imply that you have to speak Chinese. In other words: an unjustified and very racist rant.

[@WenDlovedbyJesus]

imagine..a French guy saying he can't speak Francais.. my first immediate thought.."Loser.." There goes the same for those Chinese Singaporeans that think it's cool to not know your mother tongue..忘本 is the word..a no-no