小水瓶

<P>yes, singapore adopt the british education system! GCE O Level and A Level are qualifications from Cambridge. and in china, Sec Sch is only 3 years, in singapore its at least 4 years. =)</P>

jacky86627

i hate singlish[em03]

wendy_

<P>nobody like it... but we still have to adopt it,in order to communicate with locals..</P><P>sigh..</P>

绕着剑的风

sign.....in fact.. i luv singlish....maybe i am cantonese,,so my pronounciation is like it

与风共舞

hee...interesting...but learning the standrad one will bring you international, isnot it???

夜的诗人33

<P>我晕 新加坡人 说的那叫 英语吗 </P>[em06]

*~Wiwi~*

<DIV class=quote><B>以下是引用<I>小水瓶</I>在2004-11-24 1:18:18的发言：</B>

<P>yes, singapore adopt the british education system! GCE O Level and A Level are qualifications from Cambridge. and in china, Sec Sch is only 3 years, in singapore its at least 4 years. =)</P></DIV>
<P>really? i thought i takes 2 years to complete o/a level courses and another year for exam preparation..3 years in total. but i spend my 4 years in high school (because i was in an american international school).=)
<P>well, back to the topic, i think singapore has adopt british english as its offical language. But the colloquial language is a combination of many different languages due to its muti-cultural background, which makes up a strong back-bone for singapore's growth. =)</P>

waterwolao

<P>他们的发音很不标准，是singlish，所以你要适应他们的发音还需要时间，但不要去学他们的发音。</P>

okaylah

<P>Instead of 'Singlish', if I might call it SIngapore Vernacular English (SVE) by analogy with AAVE (美国黑人英语) it's a natural development of English spoken as a second language, at least from a sociolinguistic point of view. It's pronunciation is neither General American nor Standard Southern British (标准南方英式英语), e.g. Singapore speakers trying to imitate American pronunciation do not pronounce 'new' /nu:/ (国际音标注音) but use the British pronunciation instead and say /nju:/ and do the same for words like 'tune' /tju:n/ instead of American /tu:n/. Sentence intonation (语句声调) in SVE does not have the rhythm( 韵律) of native English which is stressed-timed. SVE is syllable-timed, i.e. every syllabe (音节) is distinctly pronounced and weak forms (弱音) are generally not used. This phenomenon is attributable to the fact that local languages (including Chinese) are all syllable-timed. </P>

GoldFish

<P>英式</P>