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he looks m&d but not m&d?
must be a malay who can't speak malay
Half Malay. Father Chinese (Muslim convert), mother Malay. Most are brought up learning Malay as 2nd language, but speak mainly English at home, so command of Malay not great.
That said, Ashraf does speak with a noticeable Malay accent.
IAnyway if you listen to his accent he would be fluent in Malay.
You'd be surprised. I know many young Malays today who aren't that fluent in their mother tongue (much like the Chinese from the '80s) onwards even if they speak English with a Malay accent by virtue of their mixing among Malays at school and in the community. (I speak better Malay than most, and with no accent.)
There are of course the more educated Malays who speak English with a neutral Singaporean accent, and some who even put on a fake ang moh accent.
The Chinese-Malay offspring tend to be poorer – again a generalization – in spoken Malay because their parents usually converse in English at home (I have a few staff belonging to that group). If the mother is Malay, she may converse in a mix of Malay & English with the kids.
What I did notice is that better educated Malays (both parents Malay) now seem to speak to their young in good English and not the conversational Singlish. I guess they want to put their kids on firm foundation.
Yes, but they also despair that their kids are no longer very conversant in their native tongue. I tell them the Chinese had the same problem almost a generation ago, and some had to migrate for the sake of their kids' education because of their difficulty with mother tongue, especially the Peranakans.
Half Malay. Father Chinese (Muslim convert), mother Malay. Most are brought up learning Malay as 2nd language, but speak mainly English at home, so command of Malay not great.
That said, Ashraf does speak with a noticeable Malay accent.
Half Malay. Father Chinese (Muslim convert), mother Malay. Most are brought up learning Malay as 2nd language, but speak mainly English at home, so command of Malay not great.
That said, Ashraf does speak with a noticeable Malay accent.
The language standard of younger sinkies have definitely gone further down the toilet. Remember even Taufik Batisah got the national anthem wrong..?
The language standard of younger sinkies have definitely gone further down the toilet. Remember even Taufik Batisah got the national anthem wrong..?
I once asked (in Malay) a friend's son how he was doing in school – the mother had to translate my question into English before her kid could understand it.
There was a time when Malays were the only ones who were guardians of their mother tongue in the true sense of the word: using it all the time in their daily interactions, the language of best command and fluency. (The Chinese and Indians had lost touch with theirs a long time ago.) Malay was also the lingua franca binding the various ethnicities in the '60s and early '70s. Even the ah peks and ah sohs knew enough pasar melayu to carry out a conversation at the coffee shop and buy groceries.
Now it seems that the Malay language is losing currency in the face of globalization and waves of immigration.
It is inevitable. When languages don't adapt and adopt new words they will stop becoming relevant and die off....
Now it seems that the Malay language is losing currency in the face of globalization and waves of immigration.
Do you see a drop in intermarriages amongst Malay and Chinese compared to the past. I seldom see it now and wonder if slowly withdrawal as a community has an effect.
Imagine if conversational Malay was thought in school for all how well we would have come together as society.
Yes, in the past decade or so. Interestingly, there seems to be a resurgence in inter-racial relations in the 20-30 year-old segment. ...
Where is the photo of this nigger? Even though he has Chinese surname can bet he's as fucked a m&d as whoami