Banshkhali shooting: Eminent citizens urge China to bring its companies to book

[Michael Corleone]

You missed one thing- they also speak otirikto shudhdho Bangla...just like their dada babus

Faux Bourgeois class etiquette

Everybody in Bangladesh speaks poor English.


They struggle to pronounce Vs and Bs... Let's not even talk about the grammar or the stuttering..


We will get nowhere with such poor command of English but alas, our youth are more interested in watching Hindi movies and learning half broken hindi.

ETA ki bolli? Tui to banglar chaite English bhalo bolish.

 

[fallstuff]

Everybody in Bangladesh speaks poor English.


They struggle to pronounce Vs and Bs... Let's not even talk about the grammar or the stuttering..


We will get nowhere with such poor command of English but alas, our youth are more interested in watching Hindi movies and learning half broken hindi.

Average Chinese, Japanese, and Korean speaks no English at all, they seem to be doing just fine.
We need to invest in Research Universities.

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

So... Bangladeshi police shoot Bangladeshi rioters -> China's fault.

 

[VikingRaider]

So... Bangladeshi police shoot Bangladeshi rioters -> China's fault.

They are fifth columnists. They are trying heard to make relationship bitter.

However it will not work. Current establishment doesn't pay attention to these barking dogs!

Although many time it ( establishment ) used them.

 

[fallstuff]

So... Bangladeshi police shoot Bangladeshi rioters -> China's fault.

Why is that bugging the crap of a white poster from Canada ?

 

[bluesky]

So... Bangladeshi police shoot Bangladeshi rioters -> China's fault.

You are right. Our Shushil Samaj (read our intellectuals) think it is China's fault that Police fired on the rioters in an under-construction Chinese plant.

They want China out and India in. This group is nakedly pro-Indian and the BAL govt nurtures it for the potential benefits it may bring by mobilizing public opinions in the BAL favor.

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

Why is that bugging the crap of a white poster from Canada ?

That's a new one. Whatever gave you the impression that I'm white?

 

[Bilal9]

That's a new one. Whatever gave you the impression that I'm white?

@fallstuff saw your flags and assumed you're white. He should've looked at your Avatar.

People in US and Canada know better though - like myself. Vancouver has a lot of folks from China, HK and Chinese diaspora, as I have seen. Toronto as well.

 

[DalalErMaNodi]

Average Chinese, Japanese, and Korean speaks no English at all, they seem to be doing just fine.
We need to invest in Research Universities.

This comparisons don't work...


Have you seen their cultures ? They're open to new things unlike the peasant like mindset that sadly our masses have.



We were formerly a part of the British Raj and as such English was a great tool for us to further ourselves in the world...


Look at how Indians have used their ability to speak relatively legible levels of English to great effect.



Where as our youth can't even say the word 'where' without sounding like 'huair'...


All those cultures you listed have a history of scientific research and education.. in their respective languages.

 

[DalalErMaNodi]

ETA ki bolli? Tui to banglar chaite English bhalo bolish.

Perhaps, that may be so but my position is different...


Besides, I'm Chittagonian, I speak my dialect, I'm not required to speak standard Bengali at expert levels... I do not travel outside my home district.



I was speaking of Bangladeshi kids born and brought up there, who are future of the country, whether we like it or not...


I am just an expat.

 

[Bilal9]

Perhaps, that may be so but my position is different...


Besides, I'm Chittagonian, I speak my dialect, I'm not required to speak standard Bengali at expert levels... I do not travel outside my home district.



I was speaking of Bangladeshi kids born and brought up there, who are future of the country, whether we like it or not...


I am just an expat.

You are right. Even for educated folks, the level of English comprehension/diction in Bangladesh is quite poor.

As a result, a khatash (smelly civet) like me has become a ladykiller tiger locally in Dhaka. I am the life of Iftaar parties.

English starts shooting out of my mouth - I start attracting crowds....

 

[DalalErMaNodi]

You are right. Even for educated folks, the level of English comprehension/diction in Bangladesh is quite poor.

As a result, a khatash (smelly civet) like me has become a ladykiller tiger locally in Dhaka. I am the life of Iftaar parties.

English starts shooting out of my mouth - I start attracting crowds....

Key to speaking English well is to speak it often with others who have decent proficiency..


I used to speak like the average Indian expat until a couple years ago.. when I started played online games, I would spend atleast 6 hours or 7 hours in voice chat with Englishmen..

It hit me that speaking English merely isn't enough, communication is about getting your message across to the other party and if you can't speak English in a manner that is legible to them then it's as if you don't know English at all. This is the case with Bangladeshis who claim to 'speak' English.


Anyway , I just listened to how they speak (the Englishmen) and tried to replicate it..


It's not just how they enunciate their syllables.. it's also their sentence structure..


The sentence structure taught to me by Indian schools was so... Simplistic.. it lacked any flavour whatsoever, like speaking English for the sake of it.



I guess what I'm trying to say is.. if you want to master a language, listen to native speakers speak.


That brings me back to my point, BD kids couldn't give a flying **** about fixing their English they're busy singing Teri meri and so on...


I can read and write Hindi, when I revealed this info to my relatively young cousins they thought I was a God and all of them wanted to hear me speak it..

I ask... Why this thirst for Hindi but not for English ? The world wonders

 

[Saiful Islam]

Everybody in Bangladesh speaks poor English.


They struggle to pronounce Vs and Bs... Let's not even talk about the grammar or the stuttering..


We will get nowhere with such poor command of English but alas, our youth are more interested in watching Hindi movies and learning half broken hindi.

To be honest not really, all my family in rural areas can speak without that hideous call centre accent. You go to the cities and that's where they think speaking in that ridiculous call centre accent is meant to be posh or something (all they're doing is trying too hard imo)

Most of the younger ones I have met who has come FOB to UK speak english with an american/international accent.

My store manager who was a Chittagonian spoke English like he was from America.

 

[DalalErMaNodi]

To be honest not really, all my family in rural areas can speak without that hideous call centre accent. You go to the cities and that's where they think speaking in that ridiculous call centre accent is meant to be posh or something (all they're doing is trying too hard imo)

Most of the younger ones I have met who has come FOB to UK speak english with an american/international accent.

My store manager who was a Chittagonian spoke English like he was from America.

I wasn't speaking of accents brother, more their grasp of grammar and overall mastery of the lexicon...


Fluency is lacking severely.

 

[Saiful Islam]

I wasn't speaking of accents brother, more their grasp of grammar and overall mastery of the lexicon...


Fluency is lacking severely.

Guess that's with a lot of us South Asians. It's more of a syndrome than anything, heck you have South Asians born in English speaking countries that can't even pronounce words properly, wank becomes wenk, it's a back home mentality.

Even in the UK we speak Sylheti, Mirpuri, Punjabi amongst ourselves so what do you expect?