Cina People

• Spartans

  21 Sep 07, 21:26

  I noticed some Chinese youngsters nowadays take pride in not knowing how to speak Mandarin. Why is this so? And they feel pride and elite about it, ie only know how to speak English.
  
  They think those who speak Mandarin more often are Cina people, lower class than them. WTH?
  
  If you are a Chinese and you dun know how to speak your mother tongue language, that is a very sad thing. The least you can do is to start to learn, step by step. And not mocking around. "oh gosh, I dun know Mandarin at all. Gee... I only speak English. Speaking Mandarin so Cina."
  
  zzzzz. cannot really understand their mindsets. There tend to be more "banana man" in Arts Faculty. Just my observation.
• Agenda

  21 Sep 07, 21:27

  lucky i know.. and i'm still trying to learn..
  
  won't kill to know more things
• Spartans

  21 Sep 07, 21:35

  Originally posted by Agenda:

  lucky i know.. and i'm still trying to learn..
  
  won't kill to know more things

  Good thinking. Keep up your good work.
• yiha093

  21 Sep 07, 22:10

  i spk chinese at home
• FireIce

  22 Sep 07, 00:00

  Originally posted by Spartans:

  zzzzz. cannot really understand their mindsets. There tend to be more "banana man" in Arts Faculty. Just my observation.

  hang around chinese dept and u can see ang mohs fick fiak chinese better than u
• sEphIrOth

  22 Sep 07, 00:06

  i speak englisha t home and with people cuz english is more....sought after. mandarin is for communicating with specific populations which require them.
  
  so change with the situation lor
  
  e.g talk to old ah ma some dont knw english den use mandarin...but my mandarin not so good lar
• popikachu

  22 Sep 07, 00:11

  I can speak chinese...
  
  But i can't read chinese as those word are like pictures after pictures to me...
  
  today, i did my chinese exam within 3 min when the paper is 1.5hrs long...
  
  i give up liao...
• manyu882

  22 Sep 07, 00:11

  talk in chinese got more qin qie gan
• Ferret

  22 Sep 07, 00:12

  
• Cool-gal

  22 Sep 07, 00:48

  luckily my mandarin is good, ang moh kana sai.
  
• nullifi3d

  22 Sep 07, 01:02

  Originally posted by Spartans:

  I noticed some Chinese youngsters nowadays take pride in not knowing how to speak Mandarin. Why is this so? And they feel pride and elite about it, ie only know how to speak English.
  
  They think those who speak Mandarin more often are Cina people, lower class than them. WTH?
  
  If you are a Chinese and you dun know how to speak your mother tongue language, that is a very sad thing. The least you can do is to start to learn, step by step. And not mocking around. "oh gosh, I dun know Mandarin at all. Gee... I only speak English. Speaking Mandarin so Cina."
  
  zzzzz. cannot really understand their mindsets. There tend to be more "banana man" in Arts Faculty. Just my observation.

  Go sign up and become a Chinese teacher and maybe one day 20 years down the road you might get the entire SG population speaking mandarin
• sir_peanuts

  22 Sep 07, 01:10

  mandarin dont need singapore chinese to defend.
  
  you dont wanna learn, angmoh wanna learn.
  
  it doesnt belong to chinese. it belongs to the whole world.
• digicharat

  22 Sep 07, 01:12

  then those abc who dunno how to speak mandarin all very sad thing...
  
  im ok with them not able to speak mandarin. just dun go 'oh gosh, mandarin is sooo for the cheena'
  in fact, im happy they cannot speak mandarin. like that lesser competition.
• unclebutcher

  22 Sep 07, 01:14

  Originally posted by Spartans:

  I noticed some Chinese youngsters nowadays take pride in not knowing how to speak Mandarin.

  not some
  
  alot in jcs
  
  i also abit
• funnyboii

  22 Sep 07, 06:04

  wow like that i should be proud cos i am a mix but i speak chinese n english
  even dialect of cantonese,teochew,hokkien,hainan plus some bahasa malays but my mother tougue i dun know
  
• Hello Kitty

  22 Sep 07, 06:14

  u tink eberione like me so effectively multilingual meh.
  
  one kind of rice raise hundred kinds of ppl ah.
• Hello Kitty

  22 Sep 07, 06:14

  *ahem* raises.
• thoreldan

  22 Sep 07, 06:37

  u call them banana for a reason
  
  white on the inside, yellow on the outside..
  
  have you heard of a japanese who couldnt speak japanese?
• nanren4ever

  22 Sep 07, 07:21

  When I was in Sec 1 10 years back, I was branded Cina by the angmoh speaking gang.
  
  I retorted back and say that its much better than acting "potato" and refusing to acknowledge their own roots.
  
  Since then, they never say "Cinaman" in my face again.
• Dead_Man_Inc

  22 Sep 07, 07:27

  speak both languages, chinese to mother and english to father, cause mother last time from chinese sch and father from english school
  
  when communicate to friends or other people, english or chinese also can, depending on which one they speak
• mochou

  22 Sep 07, 07:37

  If foreigners knows singaporean chinese cant speak chinese, they gonna laugh at us.
  
  I have indian frens from india, they can speak good english, at the same time they can communicate well in Hindi(heard him talking on the phone), they read online hindi newspaper. (He's from north india he speaks hindi instead of Tamil)
  
  So why cant these "proud to dont know chinese" ppl speak good english, and able to read and speak chinese at the same time??
• euc

  22 Sep 07, 07:39

  my indian friend can sing beyond songs...in cantonese
• dahliamorie

  22 Sep 07, 07:57

  is it very hard to be bilingual? why choose to learn one language only when you have the opportunity to learn both?
  
  
• dumbdumb!

  22 Sep 07, 08:04

  i'm not really good in chinese, i'm better with english.
  
  i think people who don't make an effort to improve their english is low class though. nothing to do with chinese pride or anything, but i've met people who just don't make an effort, saying stuff like "what's so good about english?" etc. only watch chinese movies, can't understand anything deeper than Finding Nemo, etc.
  
  but apparently, when you're flirting with a chinese girl, having terrible chinese is a plus point haha.
  
  once i had dinner with this friend, i asked her if she wanted chopsticks, but used the wrong words. i said "jia zi" with noob pronunciation and she burst out laughing, and i was all serious and blur at the same time. then she stopped laughing and sighed. so i asked, why she "yan qi"? also in noob pronunciation and she burst out laughing again.
• digicharat

  22 Sep 07, 09:00

  Originally posted by dumbdumb!:

  but apparently, when you're flirting with a chinese girl, having terrible chinese is a plus point haha.
  
  once i had dinner with this friend, i asked her if she wanted chopsticks, but used the wrong words. i said "jia zi" with noob pronunciation and she burst out laughing, and i was all serious and blur at the same time. then she stopped laughing and sighed. so i asked, why she "yan qi"? also in noob pronunciation and she burst out laughing again.

  this is just like when a ang mo trying to flirt with chinese girl with their broken chinese. they will laugh and find it cute.
  
  but if an asian guy tries to flirt with them with broken english, they will find it disgusting.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOyRWuklsiQ