How come Singaporeans and Hong Kongers are so good at English while mainland Chinese people can't speak in English?
How come Singaporeans and Hong Kongers are so good at English while mainland Chinese people can't speak in English?
Lincoln Foster
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Angel Hall
They can, I can at least.
Anthony Martinez
British influence.
Lincoln Peterson
Pure Anglo blood
Jack Cook
Because they don't need to. And Singapore and hong kong were british colonies. China intends for Westerners to work in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is the gateway to the East and that's a good thing.
Jack Smith
This
Hudson Murphy
Hong Cuckners love sucking white cock
Jordan Thompson
>T.
Adrian Young
Same reason India is good at English, they were once dirt poor subjects of the British Empire too.
Connor Walker
t. Ching Chong Chang
>good
Benjamin Butler
Mainlanders are subhumans who spit on the ground and have no culture at all. Hong Kong is prosperous and cultured, which makes mainlander insects seethe.
Connor Walker
Singapore and HK = merchant ancestry
mainland china = illiterate peasant ancestry
Caleb Watson
Because Mainlanders are hard at work becoming the new superpower instead of learning the language of the decaying superpower.
Matthew Ward
about 80% of singaporeans cant speak perfect english, even when they need to
pathetic
Christian Gonzalez
History.
Adrian Clark
>Same reason India is good at English
Their English is....interesting.
Angel Butler
No, mainlanders sleep in cages like animals.
Sebastian Baker
>muh accents
singaporean written english is basically perfect. grade 12 students in canada still write with awful grammar.
Aiden Russell
yfw you realize india is the largest english speaking country other than the US.
Nicholas Hall
hong kongers do this as well because of their housing crisis
i wasnt even talking about accents, because unless you have received education overseas, even the most highly educated singaporeans cant shake off the accent entirely.
try talking to an average singaporean. chances are they would try to code switch but fail miserably, because traces of the colloquial syntax and lexis will more often than not still be noticeable
Adrian Bell
I never had any issues speaking in Singapore. I suppose those were mostly touristy parts though.
Chase Torres
but do HK and Singapore have comfy villages and villagers like this? scmp.com
No? Thought so.
Xavier Gonzalez
i've lived in singapore for 2 years it was fine. their accent is bad but it doesn't mean they have bad english (written). i was friends with malays and indos and chinese. the chinese were pretty bad i think. too many slangs indians were the best.
Blake Clark
>How come people who live in a country where English is the main official language are so good at English?
Jordan Walker
No more so than Singaporean or HK English.