Chinese

last SG · 2005-05-11T10:29:51+00:00

I think more like Singlish than English. I feel like puking everytime I hear such people talk.

tranquilice SG

It's already in simplified characters here, and you still want to simplify it?!

Deportivo SG

all in han yu ping ying.

dragg SG

it is indeed true that the govt should take full blame for this sad situation. our chinese standard is really at an all-time low.

sgdiehard SG

who are the "they" who want people to learn chinese? the garbemen? aiyo, why so obedient to the garbemen? don't think chinese useful, don't learn; don't find chinese interesting, don't learn. 5000 yrs of chinese history is for chinese, if you have no part in it, don't learn chinese.

For goodness sake, please don't learn only han yu ping ying. go to china, hk, taiwan, malaysia and anywhere with chinese words, say you know chinese but you can't read, belly malu leh. Better not say yu know chinese.

crazy monkey SG

when i read HK newspaper and lao fu zhi a lot of words dun even exist in dictionary. HK standard of chinese must be very high can invend their own words. When hk ppl interview in mandrain cannot even talk properly.

Laughing

FireIce SG

bcos it's "translated" from cantonese lah

high ur head

Elfred SG

OIC... almost the price of his single memoir...

I save the urge to buy for 20 times, I go China also can learn Chinese... Mr. Green

Thanks.

crazy monkey SG

thats why lan chonsou kao pei simi lan jiao Laughing

dragg SG

i seriously doubt people bought the book to learn chinese.

crazy monkey SG

use as toilet paper ? Laughing

FireIce SG

the book not teach u chinese lah
let u see how Lee peh peh learn chinese.....hope to inspire ppl to learn chinese.......

kentangs are encouraged to buy the angmoh version
then when they go master chinese liao then buy the chinese version...

very good marketing neh!

crazy monkey SG

its just another stunt by lky to win over the older generation of chinese educated ppl Rolling Eyes

sgdiehard SG

LKY has the "best chinese private tutor" teaching him "one to one", "once a week". we don't have the "best private tutor" to teach us on "one to one' basis. "once a week" of chinese lesson and then speak english for the rest of the week is no way of learning a language. LKY's way of learning chinese is not for ordinary people.

Enrol in any chinese language school in shanghai or taipei, you will speak better mandarin than many singaporean, and certainly LKY, within a year. In singapore, we switch to english easily and usually don't attempt to speak proper mandarin because there is no need.

dragg SG

of course not!! too expensive and you might get piles too.

dragg SG

so fly all the way to shanghai or taipei just to have chinese classes?

diggo SG

Actually I find it ok... it is the needs. Traditional chinese character has more meaning than the simplified one.

I came from a neighbourhood school... english stream of course. However, i can pick up these becos i was exposed to it at a yound age. If you ever did read the martial arts novel (½ðÓ¹ -ÎäbÐ¡Õf)... or the ¹Åý one... then reading is not a problem.

Elfred SG

Maybe the learn Chinese in order to buy the book? Laughing

Elfred SG

If you are as famous as MM Lee, no need marketing, publishers and writers willl come to you, laymen will go after your books.

Regardless, MM does understand, as a local politician, the importance of Chinese. Laughing That's what we all have to realise.

harryryan SG

My family is a dialect speaking one but i turned out okay wat...might not be a top student but my grades for my chinese n english all not bad...it really depends on e indivdiual...not e family or skool Laughing

Elfred SG

No need go so far. I go China, I come back I teach you my Elfredian broken Chinese. You want or not? Hehehehehehe...

Actually for a senior stateman, it's a good thing to continue learning.

Eg. My Dad, well, he read Malayu, he reads Malayu, still he's not expert in it but ok. It is better than those who went to small pub, go to big pub, searching for larger disco hall. Laughing

Then we use ordinary people's way to learn Chinese.

Go China is one way, but we can't bring the entire China to Singapore, nor bring the entire Singapore to China. Mr. Green

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