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Post by funkindagirl on Nov 30, 2006 6:05:35 GMT 8
american slang is common everywhere its easy to understand. i just think u do sound like a pro, cos if u can construct and write sentences that are as good as these, then surely its soo easy for u to speak it too, cos its just like writing except ur saying the words out loud. even with a weird accent doesnt mean ur not pro. i consider some1 2 be pro in english if they have good construction of sentences, correct grammer and use of past, present and future tense. and also have a wide vocab. which u seem to fit all those categories i feel so proud... wahahah!!! hmm... one day if we meet, u'll judge me... haha... cos i dont grow up in an english country, so i think yours may be better... hahah i will definitely not judge...haha i cannot be one to judge a person. mine may be better but thats only cos i grew up in an english country. i think i know how u speak tho...lots of malaysian chinese have the same way of speaking english. my cousins are very fluent in english but their accent is very different and sounds quite americanised at times  ur chinese would be sooo much better than mine anyway |
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Post by funkindagirl on Nov 30, 2006 6:09:48 GMT 8
american slang is common everywhere its easy to understand. i just think u do sound like a pro, cos if u can construct and write sentences that are as good as these, then surely its soo easy for u to speak it too, cos its just like writing except ur saying the words out loud. even with a weird accent doesnt mean ur not pro. i consider some1 2 be pro in english if they have good construction of sentences, correct grammer and use of past, present and future tense. and also have a wide vocab. which u seem to fit all those categories i compltely suck at english..my grammar and all..sucks ;D though my english is fluent and i dunt haf chinese accent..its only cuz i grew up in america. but i haf poor writing >< i know some ppl..they grew up here..but they dunt even know english..cuz their frd speaks their language so they dunt vn bother trying to speak englush.. those ppl end up in ESL ;D haha yeh my grammer's not that good either. i use a lot of slang but if it comes to writing essays i will try and write using standard correct english. but i think people who learn english as a 2nd language have better grammer anyway because they focus on learning so they have to know all the aspects of the english language. whereas we just live in a society where everyone speaks it so we dnt notice these types of things. haha cos my chinese teacher always uses these big words and english terms like 'stative verb' and im just sitting there like 'huh'?  wots that? and he's like oh u dnt know and there he has 2 explain it to me. we never learnt that in english lessons |
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Post by courtney on Nov 30, 2006 8:54:23 GMT 8
i can speak eng write n read them but not that good...as of chinese few word only...i wish i could be like you guys..hehe...can understand mandarin that well...;cause in our school we chinese,english and tagalog...only few of us are good in chinese usually its in the star sec and the one come from china.taiwan...english we can speak but not that fluent except for other people ...they make a policy in our school to speak english and chinese..but we dont follow that..haha..only in front of the teacher or else ou would be issue tickets...i think in the elementary are the one who can speak chinese and english well..'cause they really follow the policy unlike in hs..haha
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Post by funkindagirl on Nov 30, 2006 9:03:49 GMT 8
courtney where r u from?
they make u speak eng and chinese? so wot is ur 1st language?
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Post by courtney on Nov 30, 2006 9:10:47 GMT 8
philippines,tagalog..but im a chinese not a filipino...im just born in here...
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Post by funkindagirl on Nov 30, 2006 9:28:47 GMT 8
oh so filipino is ur 1st language?
is english AND chinese both compulsory to learn?
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Post by courtney on Nov 30, 2006 9:55:11 GMT 8
yah...but usually my parents talk fukien...its hard to explain 'cause in the phil u its either you are a filipino or chinese...i mean chinese blood...there are schools for chinese people..like ours
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Post by Aspire on Nov 30, 2006 19:03:40 GMT 8
haha i believe everywhere in the world there are chinese schools too.. chinese has became one of the popular languages here, coming third after english and spanish.. i cant believe malay ranked number four...  |
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Post by funkindagirl on Dec 1, 2006 7:44:21 GMT 8
yah...but usually my parents talk fukien...its hard to explain 'cause in the phil u its either you are a filipino or chinese...i mean chinese blood...there are schools for chinese people..like ours yeh thats sounds similar to places like malaysia. chinese & malay people. and thailand - chinese and thai. so chinese would be compulsory in chinese schs for chinese |
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Post by funkindagirl on Dec 1, 2006 7:45:35 GMT 8
haha i believe everywhere in the world there are chinese schools too.. chinese has became one of the popular languages here, coming third after english and spanish.. i cant believe malay ranked number four... hmm we dnt really have proper chinese schools. we have weekend chinese schools either on sat or sun but no proper ones to attend every weekday for chinese people i would like to attend one tho |
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Post by Aspire on Dec 1, 2006 12:36:40 GMT 8
i guess it's because it's still not on popular demand... haha
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Post by hhazel on Dec 1, 2006 12:40:04 GMT 8
but then now chinese market is very big...
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wots that? and he's like oh u dnt know and there he has 2 explain it to me.
