Speak Mandarin Campaign 2009 - Be Heard in Chinese - Human Remote Control

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[BAIYUE1]

So about Cantonese,Hokkien,Hakka,Shangh­ainese,...

Why chinese mandarin don't promote them ?

So unfair.Mandarin is not only language of Han chinese.

[TsangBokyan]

@BAIYUE1

facepalm

everyone in mainland china speaks mandarin. people in taiwan speak mandarin. people in hong kong speak mandarin too.

the Chinese don't promote other dialects because they aren't the universal Chinese language

but you know this already, stop trolling

[BAIYUE1]

@TsangBokyan

ha ha ha, Because other is slave of Mandarin-Manchu

Most Taiwanese speak Hokkien(80%), some speak hakka.,but still have to speak Mandarin

Most Hongkonger speak Cantonese

Mandarin ban Shanghainese, force Cantonese, Shanghainese, Cantonese...speak Mandarin.

Mandarin-Manchu is truly your boss

[TsangBokyan]

@BAIYUE1 You're a fucking idiot. I do not speak Mandarin. I know a little Cantonese and very little Hakka.

Mandarin was in place during the Ming dynasty, a REAL Chinese dynasty. Taiwanese speak Hokkien because they are Southern Han, not the politically influential (of the old days) Northern Han (which everyone pictures as "old China").

And wtf is a Mandarin-Manchu. the Qing dynasty fell in 1911 Herp Derp.

[BAIYUE1]

@TsangBokyan

I know, I know you speak English, I know.

But your Cantonese or Hakka in China now have to speak Mandarin, Cantonese children don;t have Cantonese school in Guangdong, Hakka children also.

So I can say " Mandarin-manchu will destroyed all of Cantonese, hakka in China"

as I see "Shanghainese is dying"

[TsangBokyan]

@BAIYUE1

I'm not even "Cantonese" but that's the only Chinese I can even remotely get close to speaking. Do you know why they don't? The national language of China is Mandarin, could you imagine if each of the 50 states in the U.S. adopted a different language to teach in school? It would be ridiculous.

Mandarin is NOT Manchu. Mandarin is MING at the latest...

[BAIYUE1]

@TsangBokyan

So why don’t teach Cantonese in school for Cantonese children?.Or teach Fukkienese in school for Fukienese children? Clearly , 900 millions Mandarin-Manchu want replaced all Cantonese, Fukkienese, Shanghainese.

[TsangBokyan]

@BAIYUE1 Because it doesn't make sense. They can learn it at home. In GOVERNMENT FUNDED schools, why should they teach anything besides the official language? Holy fuck, i swear you do not have the simplest reasoning skills...

[BAIYUE1]

@TsangBokyan

Problem is you are supporting for Mandarin. SO shame on you!

[TsangBokyan]

@BAIYUE1

1) I have no preference for what language is taught, but if you think that in a nation different languages should be taught in order to fragment the population, you're crazy. it could be fucking latin for all i care.

2) You are so delusion, that you think Mandarin came from the Manchus. Please, tell me WHY THE MING DYNASTY used Mandarin as their language? Oh, didn't know the Ming dynasty was Han?

3) A foreign exchange student in my house speaks Mandarin and Cantonese. Derp.

[BAIYUE1]

@TsangBokyan

So why in Taiwan , KMT ban Hokkien which is also Han chinese? Replace hokkien by Mandarin

Or Mandarin with 850 millions speaker want destroyed all of other Han language, I don’t know they are truly Han or not as Cantonese in Guangdong, Fukkienese in Fukkien, Shanghainese in Shanghai or Hokkien in Taiwan.

[TsangBokyan]

@BAIYUE1

How do you "ban" a language. Kill anyone that speaks it? The KMT didn't do that.

No, no, no. Nobody wants to "destroy" all other Han languages. But there is a need for a standardized language, no? Otherwise, how will a politician/lawyer/doctor/patie­nt/person communicate with someone else from a few provinces away? By using Chinese script?!?!? LMFAO.

I'm sorry that basic logic escapes your mental faculties, but hopefully my question above can help you come to realization.

[BAIYUE1]

@TsangBokyan

KMT banned hokkien in Taiwan in past, and use Mandarin is official language while 80% Taiwanese is Hokkien. DO you know it?

I don’t protest Mandarin as one communication, but Mandarin has 850 millions speaker, and they still want replace other Han language as Cantonese, Fukkienese, Shangahainese,…

And Chinese don’t allow teach Cantonese or Fukkienese, Shanghainese in school. It is evidence for ambitions replace all Han language by Mandarin.

[BAIYUE1]

@TsangBokyan

We can see result of Mandarin campaign in Singapore with slogan “Mandarin is truly Chinese”,so funny

Predominant Household Language

1957 (%)English 1.8 Mandarin 0.1 Chinese Dialects 97

2000 (%)English 23 Mandarin 35 Chinese Dialects 30.7 So see it, Mandarin destroying Chinese language (Cantonese ,Fukkienese, ..) in every where even in Singapore, Taiwan, an of course in mainland

[TsangBokyan]

@BAIYUE1

Sources. Also, prove that between 1957 and 2000 there were no Mandarin-speaking immigrants. If you can't, your statistics are useless.

Oh, why has English increased so much? Let me guess, English is trying to "destroy" all other languages. /facepalm.

[BAIYUE1]

@TsangBokyan

Have no English campaign in Singapore. It is native trend of Singapore while Mandarin campaign was promoted by both Singapore government and Chinese government.

it is diffirent. In past, Fukkienese is common language of Singaporechinese. Why you don't continue use it?

[TsangBokyan]

@BAIYUE1

People can use it IF THEY WANT TO. The governments only encourage the use of a COMMON LANGUAGE.

If you went to the next village over looking for medical help but the doctor looked at you funny because he couldn't understand your funny talk, you'd die. Stop being so goddamn fucking stupid.

[BAIYUE1]

@TsangBokyan

Every Singaporean can speak English, and you can use English to speak with your doctor.

And I still can’t understand when Fukkienese is common language of Chinese in hundreds of years, and now you replaced it by Mandarin.

[TsangBokyan]

@BAIYUE1

Because parents who have .001% of a normal brain realize that they must teach their kids Mandarin to succeed in Singapore, because they do a lot of business with mainland. No one is FORCING THEM TO, they're just adapting to changing times.

So why isn't Middle/Old Chinese still spoken? I guess we should scrap modern dialects and teach everyone that instead. Oh, and revert to old pre-Huangdi non-standardized script as well, right?

HOW ABOUT DOCTORS IN CHINA?

[playplaylah]

其实说什么‘普通话’，这根本是骗人的东西。中国语言中根本就没­有‘普通话’这语种，说穿只是为了推行自己的‘北佬话’，又怕其­它语种不服，才改称为普通话。

新马台港继承的才是真正的原华语，虽然因地方不同，强调有所改变­。

如用华语发音为标准，现在的‘北佬话’的口音，比台湾和新加坡离­华语发音更远。

只是政权由北方掌控，华语被北方方言口音绑架，利用政治力量，硬­塞给南方罢了。

[shayexu10]

Get Chinese Pinyin book from mypinyin dot com

[cafekawaii]

Mandarin is a good language but it will never be a WORLD language. The language would need to be overhauled and not force people to learn 13,000 different characters

[cise81]

@cafekawaii Knowing 5000 characters, you are an expert of Chinese already. 3000+ is quite enough even for native speaker. BTW, there are far more English words than Chinese characters out there. Actually, it only took my French colleague about two years to become a fluent Mandarin speaker.

[XiaolongSimatong]

我刚才看完了关于新加坡的文章。好像他们说的普通话跟大陆人和台­湾人说的不都一样。他们的一些词是客家话。我知道有些人觉得新加­坡人说得不太好，但是我觉得因为他们的祖先从不同的地方来，所以­他们和大陆人当然有些区别。他们说的就是汉语。美国人有相似的问­题。我们这儿说的是美式英语，但是很多黑人用的是俚语。很多会说­“纯正”英语的人说我们的所谓“黑人的英语”并不是地道的英语，­尽管很多英国人说美式英语并不是地道的英语，但是每个人都有地方­口音； 不同的人有不同的说法，因此互相批评没有用。

[cise81]

@XiaolongSimatong 你如果说“普通话”，那当然是有标准的。至于中文，范围就大多了­，连方言都包括在内。即便“国语”或“官话”，不同时期不同地方­还是有差别的。另外，我觉得新加坡人国语说得还挺好的，虽然略有­口音，但不会比中国南方人重。甚至他们的闽南话（福建话）感觉都­比台湾口音更接近大陆一点。

[Joicheu]

we need subtitles here :-D hehehe.. awesome... I feel very proud when non chinese people speaks chinese... it makes me feel soo great...

[sassappeal]

Mom, your kids are so wonderful

[sassappeal]

<3

this ad is commissioned for the SINGAPORE's Speak Mandarin Campaign by the SINGAPORE's National Library.

Yay!

It's a yearly campaign in SINGAPORE !!!

<3

SO EXCELLENT OF THE MOTHER & GREAT KIDS! LOVE

[sassappeal]

this ad is commissioned for the SINGAPORE's Speak Mandarin Campaign by the SINGAPORE's National Library

Yay!

[buckweed226]

wait im confused someone please explain y they want to promot mandarin and y these people r white if this is suppoed to be shown in singapore shouldnt there by singaporeans on these?

[asdjfh55]

wth, I get to work hard on my english.

[99b2146]

我的天。。。

[4449911]

except the grey sky is not from rain ...

[Adiwod]

don't always believe on what news says

just go to Shanghai and have a look at it

[4449911]

@Adiwod it's photos I've seen. My son loves Mandarin and I've got asthma ... so I think about it. I'd love to take a river boat up the Yangtze River, see the Three Gorges Dam ... but the real attraction to China is the wonderful people.

[Adiwod]

Photos can be fake sometimes as well XD beileve it or not. How about thinking like this,there are plenty of people living in China. If the air pollution is bad as you thought, how they gonna survive?

[4449911]

@Adiwod Do you live in China ? There are many beautiful - almost new - cities all over China, that we have not put on our world maps yet.

[blackghost10sg]

there are Jim Rogers's wife and 2 kids, the little baby's nick name is Bee. so i am pretty sure the girl said 拍拍手 Bee.

[bsg005]

@blackghost10sg  Yeah! I guesed it too.

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怪怪 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[cultusdeus]

sad. . . why speak mandarin

[weirdoweirdo]

because 1+ billion people cannot be wrong... that least that's according to MAD Magazine ad.

But then why not speak Arabic? Controlling 60%of world's production cannot be wrong too.

[blackghost10sg]

@weirdoweirdo production doesn't speak, people speaks. lol

[gotchaf4i]

Why is it sad that they are speaking mandarin? Why do you speak English and it says you are from Taiwan.....sad....

[blackghost10sg]

maybe because he can't speak any Mandarin and he lives in Taiwan, which is really sad! haha!

[buckweed226]

aha well u no nowadays english is the leading language in the world everyone has to no english to survive in this world

[gotchaf4i]

Is this what you believe? .......go around the world and ask the people that don't speak english if they are "surviving"......silly human...

[buckweed226]

oik well i dont mean they wont live without it but just that english is the leading language nowadays if u no wat i mean by that but yes some people are good with wat they already no

[Elbottoo]

Because it is simply the next world language and the most important language of your children and grandchildren.

Period.

[goodhope2008]

"拍拍手"講成"拍拍手臂"是很明顯的錯誤敘述, 怎算吹毛求疵呢? 三歲黃毛小兒這麼說是挺天真可愛的 沒有錯.

但沒有糾正,錯誤的語言便會積非成是!! 何況在學習的階段, 講個幾句似是而非的句子, 成了眾人驚艷的焦點, 尤需特別注意"美麗的錯誤"便隱藏在模糊的讚嘆鼓舞之中!

[moses1202]

不用想得那麼嚴肅。

我們學英文還不是都學得亂七八糟(只是我們不這麼認為)。

[dizc]

one simple ad can generate so much commotion. nice.

[creamyhorror]

"pai pai shou bi" is definitely an error and most singaporeans would say 拍拍手. It's more likely that she was actually saying "Bee", which is the baby's name.

[crazyhanyu]

用廣東話講啲baby都叫BB. lol.

[applepiebeyond]

this video makes me happy yes

[harrisonyld]

看来新加坡人的汉语水平实在是不行, 怪不得要提高汉语水平. 这个片子里有一个明显的错误, "拍拍手臂", 我的天阿, 手臂在那里阿? 希望新加坡人了解一下汉语中的"手臂"和"手"的区别.

[paliwoo]

新加坡人的中文程度有限是官方语言非中文化造成的事实，不过哥们­，外国人讲中文这东西不能吹毛求疵，我们才开始学外语的时候闹过­多少笑话呢？

[harrisonyld]

新加坡人可不是一般的外国人,做为华裔把自己的语言给忘了, 我也挺佩服他们的.

[harrisonyld]

这个系列的广告, 除了这一个外, 其他小孩子的口音都是比较典型的北方口音, 似乎说明这些孩子似乎是在中国大陆长大, 或者其汉语是中国大陆的北方人教的.

[ShoeProtestor]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

[hungshun123]

hahha~~~~~~~~~~

[HongKongDonghua]

Pisjas says: The younger one is called "Bee" and that "'Pai Pai Shou Bi'" is really typical Singaporean Mandarin" - but, since her name is apparently Bee - then she is probably saying "Pai Pai Shou BEE" which is traditional Mandarin, not Singaporean.

[pisjas]

well, if you really pay attention to the video and can read Chinese characters, you will know that it's 手臂 but not 手，bee.

[zhongxq]

Really like this ad alot. The 2 girls are really cute.

I am really amazed at how the younger one is able to understand so much of what her sis is saying .....

[pisjas]

the two are the girls of Jim Rogers. The older one is Happy (Chinese name: Lele); the younger one is Bee. They live in Singapore. That Pai Pai Shou Bi...is really typical Singaporean Mandarin.

[iLuvCiconne16085868]

Yes. The pai pai shou and gong xi gong xi are two things we teach babies and toddlers at that tender age to respond to our cue. Brings back memories of looking after my nieces and nephews when they were little... ...

[pisjas]

actually this brings back memories of looking after my cousins as well. i believe it's quite universal in mandarin speaking families. but as what you said, it should be pai pai shou but not pai pai shou bi. shou is hand while bi is arm.

[HongKongDonghua]

Well - as you say, the younger one is "Bee" - so "Pai Pai Shou Bi" is probably Pai Pai Shou BEE - and therefore traditional (not Singaporean) Mandarin...

[crazyhanyu]

I think that BEE is short for BB=baby as in Cantonese BB仔.

[skorpion23]

süß!!!

[mengmenglandan]

soooooooo cute!!!!!!!

[faseoff1234]

lmao cute

[Jessica150689]

so cute