Singaporeans cannot grasp language properly ?
Do you mean Properly or Perfect ?
If it's perfect that you mean, then you should know that even a
foreign native speakers themselves who speak only their
mothertougue couldn't get it right. You just have to go to UK and
America to see this fact.
Also, most Singaporean could speak/write more then one language,
and if you consider dialects as a language, which they are, then
you know that Singaporeans do grasp languages properly. "Properly"
meaning they are in the high degree of communication, where they
are understood. In other words most Singaporean can communicate
well in their third or fourth language, other than their mother
tongue.
Get a Cacausian to try speak
Mandarin/Hokkien/Cantonese/Malay/Teochew and you will be amused
that they simply can't get some simple words right. I am always
demused, when I hear Westerner laugh at some Chinese who speak
English in a "funny" way, though the words are correct and
understandable... only the accent is strange. While They themselves
can only speak/write their own mother tongue with so many gramma
mistakes.
So do you still think Singaporeans cannot grasp language properly ?
Speaking in their second/third/fourth langauge?
