Are all Malaysian Chinese Mandarin speaking?
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They don't seem to be comfortable speaking in English,even those tertiary educated ones.
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why english?
mandarin cool! -
Blanket statement.
I consider myself fairly fluent in spoken English. -
obviously not
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do u mean in sg or malaysia? same situation in sg as in malaysia. depends on sch and family background.
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dont like to speak english dont mean they dont understand.Originally posted by Marco_Simone:They don't seem to be comfortable speaking in English,even those tertiary educated ones.
my english teacher like to read chinese newspaper. so are you trying to say she poor in english
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some singaporeans chinese have a disease of DSCBTSAEBSSLS
(dun speak chinese but tried speaking american english but still sound like singlish) -
i agree that most malaysian chinese are mainly cantonese and mandarin speaking. but in cities like kuala lumpur and petaling jaya.......most chinese there speak english as their first language.
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go genting alot of cantonese speaking ppl
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Are all Singaporean Chinese mandarin speaking?
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no.. in fact almost all m'sian chinese students who study in m'sian govt schs speak english bcos their sch only teach english and malay. some m'sian scholars in s'pore can't speak mandarin.. may mistake them for indonesian chinese.
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they are very good with their malays.Originally posted by crushedhearts:no.. in fact almost all m'sian chinese students who study in m'sian govt schs speak english bcos their sch only teach english and malay. some m'sian scholars in s'pore can't speak mandarin.. may mistake them for indonesian chinese. -
they can speak malay, mandarin and english...
but their mandarin might not be too fluent. same goes for their english.
malay? i think they can speak them quite well ba. after all, they live in a country who speaks malay as 1st language mah... -
this is good. i agree.Originally posted by leon_lai89:some singaporeans chinese have a disease of DSCBTSAEBSSLS
(dun speak chinese but tried speaking american english but still sound like singlish)
sad to say, unless a person here has the talent to adapt quick OR is from American/English accent environment, else one will always sound singlish.