you are right in a sense dat:
u need good chinese language foundation to excel in chinese
literature, because chinese literature is carved in a way dat u
really need a lot of ideas and be good in your writing in order to
understand it. In singapore, chinese literature are not taught
unless u take chinese A or higher chinese in junior colleges or
millienia institute, as most of the time, AO chinese, N level
chinese, O level normal chinese and O level higher chinese only
teaches you and emphasize on the building of foundation of
languages.
however, can we blame pple's attitude towards chinese?...though
government has recently juz adjusted its policy towards taking
higher chinese in secondary sch and more emphasis on and changing
of different methods of learning of chinese, however, our society
is such that a lot of pple still cant grasp the language
well...pple tend to tink dat english is more important as it is a
medium language used to teach everything like maths science
humanitites....ask urself this qns: do u reallie nid to excel in
both languages in order to survive in singapore??....obviously
not!...in fact if u r a chinese idiot u still can get a job and
live well!.....
why we chinese hav to learn chinese?...u talk abt roots, talk abt
culture, but my ans to this qns is dat how pple from china n taiwan
n hong kong view u as. Singapore is the only country outside china
n taiwan which has the most population made up of chinese. Where
did our ancestor come from? there is only one answer and it is
obvious.
tink abt it, if i tell you that singapore sec1's chinese standard
is only equivalent to malaysia's pri4's chinese, wad do you
tink?
and also the fact that many of my frenz who are reallie hardcore
hatefans of chinese during their sec sch days now find demselves
regretting for not studying hard enough for chinese........
