Presidential Election 2011

[kittybank]

Rafy:

you can find it on CNA website

:thankyou: heng ah, didn't ask ds to watch before his oral exam.

[verykiasu2010]

wormy:

Rafy:

you can find it on CNA website

:thankyou: heng ah, didn't ask ds to watch before his oral exam.

can tell your DS it is negative demo mah .....

[kittybank]

verykiasu2010:

can tell your DS it is negative demo mah .....

Ya hor, the NOT to do list

[3Boys]

First of all, i find the use of the word ‘potato’ to be pejorative, and having been inflicted with it by a hardline Chinese teacher in my p-school days, find it particularly disgusting. My Chinese language education experience can be found in a different thread and i shan’t repeat. Therefore, in my view, the appointment of an education minister who is steeped in a particulate culture and second language, and has found the going easy, quite possibly, is the worst outcome. Particularly now that a large proportion of Singaporean children do not in fact speak mother tongue at home, and for any potential ed minister to then impose some unrealistic standard or approach would be disastrous.

[Strparent]

wormy:

Can someone pls pls tell me where to view tt's speech in mandarin? I need that to motivate my kids.

Hi Wormy, below link as posted earlier.
( How Not To Read Hanyu Pinyin on placards :siam: )

Strparent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6iW5FjrWs. pls click for link

Glad this election campaign also throws up some laughter and humour.

[nani]

growie:

concern2:

Strparent, didn't know TCB is a Teochew! Very funny video! Thanks for sharing.

Agreed..the first video was very funny and well scripted!! I enjoyed it tremendously. Tks Strparent. :imcool: :rotflmao:

Thanks for sharing ...I can sooooooo relate to the video :rahrah:

[kittybank]

Thank you, Strparent,


I can only tahan 3 mins of that video. Buay tahan ah!!!

[CayennePepper]

Actually, without meaning to, I find myself mumbling jia-yous to TT throughout his attempt to read hanyu pinyin (presumably) off the teleprompter. Nothing to do whether I like the guy as president or not... I mean, he's in his seventies, don't speak the language (obviously!) but yet was gamely reading an alien script in front of a camera. Got to give him a few points for trying lah

[Chenonceau]

If he is Peranakan then Mandarin is not his mother tongue. Not being able to speak Mandarin in our multi-cultural environment is nothing to be ashamed of.


I am not giving him my vote but the ability to speak Mandarin should not determine how a multi-racial country votes.

[kaka]

CayennePepper:

Actually, without meaning to, I find myself mumbling jia-yous to TT throughout his attempt to read hanyu pinyin (presumably) off the teleprompter. Nothing to do whether I like the guy as president or not... I mean, he's in his seventies, don't speak the language (obviously!) but yet was gamely reading an alien script in front of a camera. Got to give him a few points for trying lah

It takes courage to speak in a language you are not familiar with on nation TV, especially knowing that people are going to laugh and ridicule ..