Can Singaporeans Speak Chinese?

[bolo]

Next thread: "Can Brits speak English?"

 

[Shehr Abbasi]

I heard that Singapore was banished from Malaysia. Must be very rude to identity as Chinese in Singapore, most refer themselves as Malay or Viet. Weird culture nonetheless.

 

[beijingwalker]

National Day Rally 2019 - Chinese
Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong traced back Singaporeans' Chinese origin and how hard working Chinese immigrants went through hardship and set their home there built up a modern new nation together and how Chinese Singaporeans love China as their spiritual motherland and how Chinese Singaporean helped to shape the modern China.

Surprised to hear that Lee Hsien Loong calls PRC " the new China", exactly the same PRC calls herself.

 

[Kai Liu]

I heard that Singapore was banished from Malaysia. Must be very rude to identity as Chinese in Singapore, most refer themselves as Malay or Viet. Weird culture nonetheless.

Do you mean been identified as Malay or Viet are something glorious or what? You should ask Singaporeans here on this forum about their opinions if it is a honor or an insult or whatever...Lol....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore

 

[Song Hong]

Time has change. Singaporeans are looking East. This happen for a while. Meanwhile no one mention much about Peranakan these days. They are almost indistinguishable as they are being breed out by Chinese.

There were peranakans who were pro-China and some were pro British. But those peranakan in power since independence are anglicized folks.

They have a loud voice. They have wealth. They face the foreigners.

People who mentioned Singaporeans speak no Chinese only handshake with upper class and do not know the ground.

Everyone who takes the bus or MRT speak Chinese.

The mainstream media are often inaccurate or wrong.

National Day Rally 2019 - Chinese
Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong traced back Singaporeans' Chinese origin and how hard working Chinese immigrants went through hardship and set their home there built up a modern new nation together and how Chinese Singaporeans love China as their spiritual motherland and how Chinese Singaporean helped to shape the modern China.

Surprised to hear that Lee Hsien Loong calls PRC " the new China", exactly the same PRC calls herself.

 

[Kai Liu]

This question is like asking if Australians or New Zealanders can speak English...lol...

Malaysian Chinese speak fluent Mandarin as well.

 

[Song Hong]

We have many Singaporean PDFers here, we better listen to what they have to say.

Lee Kuan Yew never denied his Chinese origin. Was he part of your so called "upper class"? In modern Chinese culture we don't have that social classes ideas, you sound like you are talking about India.

The Chinese has always classes but not caste.

The elimination of classes is the aspiration of Marxist and this is what Mao strived for.

资产阶级 无产阶级 阶级斗争
资产阶级反动路线
无产阶级革命路线
You are not good in Chinese history.

 

[beijingwalker]

The Chinese has always classes but not caste.

The elimination of classes is the aspiration of Marxist and this is what Mao strived for.

资产阶级 无产阶级 阶级斗争
资产阶级反动路线
无产阶级革命路线
You are not good in Chinese history.

I know everything about the Chinese history, but I m talking about today's China, we don't live in the past history.

 

[Song Hong]

I know everything about the Chinese history, but I m talking about today's China, we don't live in the past history.

Modern China has no class?

you are kidding

 

[Kai Liu]

Modern China has no class?

you are kidding

We have business class, 1st class, and 2nd class in our HSR

 

[beijingwalker]

Modern China has no class?

you are kidding

I guess we Chinese members here know China better than a Vietnamese here, If I claim I know Vietnam better than you, wouldn't you think it is a big joke?

 

[Mista]

Singaporeans fervently deny their Chinese ethnic origin?

You're replying to a nutcase lol.

Kuan Yew is a proponent of caste system, and for this, he is a shitbag of humanity. He is an admirer of Indian caste system. He introduce all measures so that high caste can breed and the low caste get shit.

Kuan Yew is a mofos that now dancing with Satan.

FCUK Kuan Yew

Kuan Yew has tried his luck as a petty Sheikh in Islamo land when we joined Malaysia in 1963 - 1965. He basically run Singapore into shit land of racial warfare.

Kuan Yew want to make a shit hole out of Singapore.

HK demise is exactly due to their shit head, and their shit head is due to their elites masturbating them and the middle class later join in the orgy .

Kuan Yew and sons are trying the same fcuking trick on SG people and we SG people are far better. We tell Kuan Yew to fcuk off

 

[Song Hong]

You are an educated fool.

You're replying to a nutcase lol.

 

[Song Hong]

Peranakan were disdained of Chinese-ness. They wrote many nihilist essay to show that they are a class above everyone.

They try to be smart and philosophical.

Unfortunately they are shallow, stupid and shameless in reality.

They just have a big voice, sympathizer and influence in Singapore and all newspaper keep publishing the BS ad nausea.

Recently the rise of China coupled with the fall of their master USA, heal them a little from their hallucinating.


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For many years, as a Peranakan growing up in Kampong Potong Pasir, I was caught in an identity crisis. I was taunted with the acronym, OCBC, Orang China Bukan China translated as Chinese person not Chinese.

My skin was more brown than other Chinese folks. I didn’t speak Chinese; only Malay. I didn’t even have a Chinese name. The only Chinese thing about me was my surname.

Peranakans fall in between the cracks of our traditional notions of race. Many of us in Singapore dress and talk like the Malays, and we struggle to identify with the Chinese. But we eat pork and celebrate the Lunar New Year so we don’t belong to the Malay or Muslim camp either.

Unfortunately, for me, my identity card (IC) says I am Chinese. But I personally would rejoice if my IC says Peranakan, not Chinese.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...alay-identity-singapore-bicentennial-10745232

 

[Mista]

This question is like asking if Australians or New Zealanders can speak English...lol...

Malaysian Chinese speak fluent Mandarin as well.

To be frank, Singaporeans' Chinese vocabulary generally suck. The words we use are too 笼统 and simplified despite 10 years of mandatory education in our mother tongues.

However, the younger generation still have some foundation in the language. The tones, the pronunciation, the accent is understandable; quite unlike a third generation American-born Chinese or a HKer.

With the background, throw them in mainland China or Taiwan with a totally Chinese-speaking environment and they will be able to speak Mandarin fluently within 6 months.

8:54

孙燕姿 is one example. Her pronunciation is okay but her vocabulary sucked when she started her singing career lol.

据台湾媒体报道，孙燕姿先前为新加坡总理李光耀自传撰文，内容提到刚出道时，上吴宗宪主持的节目，因听不太懂中文，随意回答，却被他毫不留情骂笨，让她难过许久甚至流泪。对此报道，吴宗宪说，“我今天特地请他们调出当年的带子，我不知道她听不懂。”他表示，有调侃也是节目效果，自己非常喜欢孙燕姿，更爱她的笑容。

据媒体报道，孙燕姿当年上吴宗宪主持的《周日八点党》“食字路口”单元，孙燕姿因中文不好，随口给了一个回应，被吴宗宪骂：“怎么现在新人都这么笨。”她后来因此开始努力学华语，她在文中形容当下的情绪，简直无地自容，“像个热辣辣的巴掌刮在我的脸上，刺痛了我的心。”

https://www.zaobao.com.sg/wencui/entertainment/story20150420-470686

And now she can write Chinese lyrics. The lyrics of 她说 are written by her btw.

For Wuhan back in Jan, written on CNY day 1.