Indian FTrash Wants a Fifth Official Language Woh!

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Malayalam as MT language?

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<!-- end left side bar --><IMG class=stimage alt="" width=330> Tthe goal of the newly formed Malayalam Language Education Society Singapore. It was launched on Saturday at the Naval Base Secondary School in Yishun by Law Minister K. Shanmugam. -- ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG

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MALAYALAM as a mother tongue language in Singapore schools.
That is the goal of the newly formed Malayalam Language Education Society Singapore. It was launched on Saturday at the Naval Base Secondary School in Yishun by Law Minister K. Shanmugam.
Addressing the media after the event, Mr Shanmugam applauded the formation of the society and said it should be welcomed and supported.
He said: 'Malayalam has a rich tradition, it is culturally a very rich language as well, and people who are Malayalees should be encouraged to access and strengthen their roots and that does not detract in any way from being Singaporean.'
Malayalam is the main language of the southern Indian state of Kerala. There are about 25,000 Malayalees in Singapore.
The idea of a society to promote Malayalam was mooted in late 2008 and since then a group of volunteers has worked with the Board of Teaching & Testing of South Asian Languages. They have prepared texts for primary students and currently about 50 students attend weekly Malayalam classes offered in five centres. These are in Sembawang, Bukit Batok, Toa Payoh, Jurong and Sembawang.
>OMG!!! IF we are going to set up a MT syllabus for only 25K here, what other languages are we going to offer as MT? India has hundreds if not thousands of languages/dialects. Malayalam is probably just another dialect in India. Why are they getting this special treatment when we can't get Chinese dialects like hokkien teochew cantonese or others recognised by the gahmen as our real MTs and taught in schools? The gahmen has been supressing people from using chinese dialects for decades. This is outright another form of discrimination against the majority of the true blue singaporeans.



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[Teo Kok Eng]

Fifth Official should be pinoy first then come malayam

 

[Char_Azn]

If we need another national language it should be as follows:
1)Hokkien
2)Teochew
3)Cantonese
4)Hindi
5)Bahasa Indonesia
5)Filipino

The simi mala whatever is way down the list

 

[Microsoft]

De nxt official lang should be sign lang...use universally across de world...shd hav no problems understanding ea other...

 

[no_faith]

"THIS IS SINGAPORE!".....not bombay:oIo:

 

[HTOLAS]

Malayalam is hardly spoken in Bombay - it comes from Kerala, which is in SW India. While many of the Keralites are new immigrants, the Malayalees (term generally used to refer to speakers of the language who are not born in Kerala) have been in Singapore for a LONG time and have contributed well beyond their numbers.

Also, they are asking for their language to be made a Mother Tongue in schools - there is no mention of 'official language'. I don't see anything wrong with that. As for those other languages listed by others, I actually happen to think that Singaporeans should have access to the learning of more, not fewer, languages.

I agree the PAPzis have been callous with regards to the number of foreigners coming in, but let us not bark up the wrong tree.

"THIS IS SINGAPORE!".....not bombay:oIo:

 

[saratogas]

Everyone wants a piece of India Now. UK send a business group, US wants more trades. So Sinkapore follows by learning more Ah Neh languages. Our ties with India remain strong, I can smell it from here.

 

[Unrepented]

Aiyah....bobian this type of things keep happening and creeping up in our nation.......eun tuk zhao eun.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

ya lah for some fucking unknown reason singapore have a sick fetish for these shit skinned buggers.

 

[Qantas]

ya lah for some fucking unknown reason singapore have a sick fetish for these shit skinned buggers.

din realise that half of Waterside condom in Tanjong Rhu housed ah nehs until reported in yesterday ST. Wah lan eh. This country really going to the dumps.

 

[Ramseth]

Thai should be the fifth official language, if there's to be one.

 

[Unrepented]

Aiyah, simple lah....all donch argue.

Fifth official language: Any other language that is not currently the first four official language.

 

[jonlatio]

ya lah for some fucking unknown reason singapore have a sick fetish for these shit skinned buggers.

Thank your holy Goh for developing the India Fever and spreading it around the parliament.. Now they all have the hots for Indians. Get used to it. No sign of the fever going off anytime soon.

 

[manokie]

They want everything but never work to make it happen except talk about it. What idiots

 

[Spock]

Singlish ?

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

They want everything but never work to make it happen except talk about it. What idiots

That's a shit skin keling asshole for you.


If you actually see a keling working for it rather than just bull shitting, you better go to the nearest window and look outside. Chances are you'll start to see flying cows,dogs and cats and you'll see the moon rising in the day time and the sun will suddenly rise from the west and set in the east.

 

[yellow_people]

They want everything but never work to make it happen except talk about it. What idiots

75% Ah Beng majority has always been this way. What to do? Keep sucking your thumb.

 

[M.Bison]

How lucky i am to be on the OA's VIP list. :p

Assed by the OA again. That should cheer you up hmm?