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Yet, can you say with certainty you know it well enough to pick up Singapore-specific idiosyncrasies? Like my father, who had no legitimate point of reference to compare his English skills, and my wife and her friends that were taught by teachers who did not speak English fluently, how solid is you...

Agree QRM. SGBoyxxx is a great example of someone with constructive opinions, excellent perspective, and an open mind towards these things. So there is hope. lol speaking of this lad "sgboxxxxxxx". i bet my last dollar that he did not finish his o levels and speaks mandarin or mandarin dialect at h...

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Yet, can you say with certainty you know it well enough to pick up Singapore-specific idiosyncrasies? Like my father, who had no legitimate point of reference to compare his English skills, and my wife and her friends that were taught by teachers who did not speak English fluently, how solid is you...

Croccs22 just what are you getting at? That we only speak mild Singlish? Who else in the world but us are more capable of speaking full Singlish? "English language isn't the 1st language for 60% of Singaporeans" but "IDK about you but many Singaporeans speak English as their first language." So is ...

Is your friend's wife near / above 40? Singapore is not like America where English was spoken by the masses for 200 years. Your American grandfather spoke English because he inherited it from the Brits when they left. The masses in Sigapore only started speaking English 50 years ago. Hence, a lot of...

Do you realise there is a "speak good Mandarin" campaign going on as well? There are probably a hundred campaigns every year. Anyway, foreigners like yourself can go around bashing singapore and I don't care. To a native Singaporean, a lot of your comments are quite laughable. From "Ris Low speaks E...

I hope you enjoy paying high taxes worldwide because America is bankrupt. Scratch that, it is past bankrupt. It is 15 trillion in debt. It will be fun watching how Americans pay their 15 trillion debt over the next few decades without delcaring bankruptcy. Iran next? Yabadabadooooo!!!

My Mandarin is not exactly Beijing ed accent as well. (no "er" accent) But most Mainlanders would have no problem believing I am from China and that I am a native Mandarin speaker. They tend to think I am from Guangzhou province or Taiwan, where their accents are quite similar to the Singaporean one...

It is rather easy to get all Singaporeans to speak perfect English. The sg govt just has to make English the only official language in Singapore. Viola, within one generation, no more Singlish. But the sg govt wants Singaporeans to be billingual or trillingual. They want Singaporeans to thrive in Ch...

none of my friends speak with a serious case of singlish. it seems that only the old singaporeans above 40yo Really? Only old Singaporeans? I take it you've never been to Mcdonalds and sat next to a study group, and never been to the cinema and sat through a movie where everyone in the cinema const...

i i have always considered it pidgin english. that was just way i was brought up and taught in school You hit the nail on the head, the average Singaporean does not speak proper English because of the way it has been taught at school. Both Ris Low and this woman on this clip http://www.youtube.com/...

i think we call it kiwi in singapore. i was just being a little sacarstic in my previous reply. i never thought of singlish as an international dialect. i have always considered it pidgin english. that was just way i was brought up and taught in school. come to think of it, i never spoke heavy singl...

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that is my youtube video. many singaporeans do speak a mixture of singlish and standard english. many can code switch to standard english as well.

whatever. i am just speaking singlish, which is my country's dialect. i have no idea what shinola is as well. is it a farm thing?