We need a new law...PRC staff MUST speak English

last SG · 2007-12-11T15:05:48+00:00

I share the exclaimation "alamak", but why is a Malay stall manned by PRC?" Since when the PRC learned to cook nasi padang good enough to sell? or why do the...

Dr Who SG

I walked into a coffeeshop and ordered "Coke" from a new PRC assistant
The new PRC worker looked at me blankly as he could not understand what I wanted.

After a while I relunctantly used Mandarin as said "ker-ler" and the guy brought me Pepsi instead!

Of late, I had been served by PRC staff who cannot speak simple English.

If I find communication problems, what more for my fellow non-Chinese Singaporeans?

I therefore propose that everyone, boycott shops which does not have staff that can speak local languages....Singlish, English, Malay, Tamil, Hokkien.......etc.

Why should my fellow non-Chinese Singaporeans suffer at the hands of these foreigners? By all means come to Singapore to work, but please speak my language, and not PRC Mandarin which my fellow non Chinese Singaporeans cannot understand!

I say we should avoid shops that employ non-Singlish speaking staff, and for this to succeed, all Mandarin speaking Singaporeans must co-operate to send a message to the employers!

Trump_Card SG

I second that ... Laughing

FireIce SG

i met quite a few who can speak english, and even better than the average singaporean.

mai siao siao ok

u ownself chinese but no know how to speak chinese, u shd be the one diu lian leh........tsk tsk tsk............

Dr Who SG

Not that I cannot speak Chinese...... I definately can if I want to

But for the sake of the Non-Chinese Singaporeans, we must be united and not succumb to speaking Mandarin simply because the PRC worker cannot speak English..... we must not encourage the employers who seek greater profits by employing these foreigners.....cheap labour......soon Singaporean uncle/aunty will not be able to work at McDonalds if cheap labour keep coming.......

Coquitlam SG

I'm sure the PRCs, especially the younger ones will speak better english than their predecessors....the main thing is to have more PRCs coming in to populate and raise the the number to 6.5mil...heck raise it to 8 million for all I care.....isn't 8 a lucky number to the chinese....it's good so that the PRCs will give the locals a run for their money......hang on...aren't the locals descendants of PRC Han chinese in the late 19th century....so what are they complaining about...such wimps......and I dearly hope the gahmen bring in more PRCs.....good for globalization

FireIce SG

8 million? confirm lucky lah.... so lucky singapore will sink liao lor..............

Coquitlam SG

kekeke, yup....isn't that what the gahmen want.....more people for the domestic market, so that the new generation chinese can patronize the 2 casinos....oh wait...it's IRs...must be politically correct....and also to support the F1 races....and sit in the Sillypore flying wheel....

Dr Who SG

If you migrate, you must learn to integrate.....

We are Singapore, not some PRC outpost......

de_middle SG

Neutral Neutral Neutral

HyperFocal SG

This... has been an age old issue, and not only with PRC coffeshop employees...! There are locals too, who insist on responding to me in Mandarin even when I ordered my food from them in either of the following local lingos:

>> English/Singlish
>> Hokkien
>> Teochew

Now, the biggest problem is that "our" government doesn't think this is a problem... (!!) Instead, they seem to want us all to Kow-Tow to anyone from China!!!

....knn... farking lampa carriers... !!!

HyperFocal SG

Hey Dr Who,

In future, if you come across such PRC coffeeshop assistants, just get up from your table, mosy over to the drinks counter & order your drink/s... if asked why, tell owner of coffeeshop his assistant cannot understand English/Singlish, Hokkien, Cantonese, or Teochew...

I always do that...

play_n_play SG

take it easy, just speak chinese to them if they only can speak chinese;
for your non-chinese speaking staff, just get another guy who can speak english to help;

lots of new immigrants from latin american in US nowadays cannot speak english, but they still are doing well Embarassed

deathbait SG

How convenient that you forget one of the major local languages is mandarin. Do you discriminate against locals who cannot speak english? Do you hate anyone who can only speak malay or tamil?

I'm sorry if you're poorly educated or just ill informed. The mandarin taught to the Chinese ppl is the exact same one taught as a COMPULSORY subject to local chinese students.

When you said, "ker ler", it translates to english as COLA, which is, my dear boy, hardly singularly indicative of coke. Handing you a pepsi was not his fault; It was yours. The person who does not understand a local language is YOU, not him.

But let's just do away with anyone who can't speak singlish properly huh? Your grandparents probably can't. Hell, a significant number of singaporeans probably can't talk in your imaginary singlish. It's idiots like you who can't even master their basic mother tongue that take pride in Singlish. If you want to treat it as a separate language, have the guts to admit you don't know english. You can't have it both ways.

Dr Who SG

I am speaking on behalf of non-Chinese Singaporeans.....these Singaporeans now have a problem in their own country!

The majority Chinese must think for the minority and not ignore our own citizens.

I put Non Chinese Singaporeans above the PRC Chinese, although I am Chinese by ethnicity.

Demonight SG

Really? Wow thanks for caring so much. Why don't you help out by making sure that companies looking for new employees in positions of power don't need to speak Mandarin

gUms SG

ban this mutha farkers from entering singapore in the first place

my friend once was served by a china work , and the china waitress didnt understand him , nor he understood the china waitress , at last he buey tahan liao , he screamed i wan to talk to a SINGAPOREAN.the whole
restaurant , turned and looked at him .... And he scream again , i dont wan to talk to any aliens but only singapore born citizen.

P.s , Its a restaurant in a 5***** hotel.

Demonight SG

your friend sounds like my bro..I could see him doing that as well

Dr Who SG

We want a Singaporean Singapore, not a Chinese Singapore

Remember LKY once fought for a Malaysian Malaysia, not a Malay Malaysia......

How soon they forget.........

Demonight SG

All I can recall are the crocodile tears during the announcement of the separation Rolling Eyes

goldenblaze2710 SG

i AGREE !
i hate to talk to PRC sales...
esp when askin bout products...
ill rather pay a little more and go else where, where better service is provided