November 25, 2008
I am keeping this short since I have a lot of readers that who know Chinese.
Two random comments about spoken Chinese in Singapore.
First, they always use ”讲“ – I have not heard a single person say ”说“。
Second, they always say 华文 or 华语 – I have not heard a single person say 中文，汉语，等等。。。
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October 31, 2008
This is great. When teaching oral presentation and writing skills, I have to tell my students to avoid Singlish and Mandarin influences. Most of Singlish’s grammatical problems are the result of Mandarin influence. A classic example to illustrate this is a Singaporean movie called I Not Stupid (小孩不笨; pinyin: xiǎohái bù bèn), which is grammatically [...]
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