Sadly, few remember that Mandarin is a prestige dialect unilaterally imposed upon Singaporean Chinese by the government at the expense of our actual mother tongues.
I agree, anyone marveling at these kids is a bozo. They live in China and are growing up there. Why WOULDN'T they sound native, just like Chinese kids who grow up in the E-7 speak perfect English. Honestly, use you damn brains.
You guys marvelling at these kids' accents are idiots. They're children, of course they can pick up a perfect native accent with no problem, just as a Chinese kid growing up in the states can speak perfect native English.
It appears to me that majority of English or Anglo-Chinese educated Singaporeans consider Mandarin to be of little significance. Anglo-Chinese educated parents may send their children to study Chinese, but the language they speak at home is English. This condition generates the term “Banana People”, depicting that despite their Chinese lineage, they are yellow on the outside but white inside, i.e. their appearance may be Chinese, but their core is Anglo-Saxon or European.
actually singaporeans are quite talented in languages, many of them can speak two, three or more different languages fluently. i am not from singapore, but i have quite a few friends there. small amount of intelligent people living on that tiny island, and one of the world's richest, not an easy job.
@PorkIsHalal some, but definitely not all. many swiss people speak english, and people from german speaking part of switzerland are little bit more language-talented than the other 3 language parts. it also depends on how far people have gone in their education, same as rest of the world.
partially true, but they are not "pathetic" singaporeans. i once heard from a british woman who lived in singapore for many years, she told me that singaporeans speak "pacific english" which gave her a pretty hard time unterstanding at the beginning, and many times they speak like "okay la":-) but you can't underestimate their english, they speak very good english, it is just they speak it with an accent, but many non mother-tongue english speakers have accent, in france or italy for instance.
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those pathetic singaporeans can't correctly speak any language... they can't ever completely do a single speech in one language... and each language they speak there's a STRONG accent...
Excuse me- 'pathetic Singaporeans? Have you ever set foot on S'pore and listen to someone give a speech? Perhaps it's true that a lot of us are not truly bilingual in terms of precision and ease with the lesser used language. I'd be the first to admit that my spoken (formal) Mandarin is a tad rusty. But that does not justify any of your sweeping statements.
Regarding our 'accent'- find me someone who speaks any language w/o one Every culture leaves a different mark on languages- even the USA.
Such jealousy! The kids are still cute.
99djc88 3 weeks ago
.35 girl the cutest!
healmeholy 9 months ago
i burst out laughing at 0:29
teldrassilz 1 year ago
Sadly, few remember that Mandarin is a prestige dialect unilaterally imposed upon Singaporean Chinese by the government at the expense of our actual mother tongues.
bliz85 1 year ago
I agree, anyone marveling at these kids is a bozo. They live in China and are growing up there. Why WOULDN'T they sound native, just like Chinese kids who grow up in the E-7 speak perfect English. Honestly, use you damn brains.
doubanjiang 1 year ago
You guys marvelling at these kids' accents are idiots. They're children, of course they can pick up a perfect native accent with no problem, just as a Chinese kid growing up in the states can speak perfect native English.
pleasance 1 year ago 4
很厉害哦。。。。
doctorcalz 1 year ago
I can't speak mandarin but the girl in 0:34 sounds more chinese than the others. Am I right?
sofis2312 1 year ago
It appears to me that majority of English or Anglo-Chinese educated Singaporeans consider Mandarin to be of little significance. Anglo-Chinese educated parents may send their children to study Chinese, but the language they speak at home is English. This condition generates the term “Banana People”, depicting that despite their Chinese lineage, they are yellow on the outside but white inside, i.e. their appearance may be Chinese, but their core is Anglo-Saxon or European.
yabiren 1 year ago
Wow what's this all about?
Last time I met a Westerner interested in learning Chinese, he quit at "how are you?"
grandtheftvideo 1 year ago
i love noemie!
kittyvivi94 1 year ago
wtf my dad couldnt make me do that
avie1995 1 year ago
Why Beijing accent???
bushangels 1 year ago
加油，说得很好，我都听明白了。
dshyang 1 year ago
holy cow... chinese are taking over the world,,, our future generations have already become their target....
lmhlmh7182 1 year ago 2
im a homo sexual jew
sammyzheng 2 years ago
Haha awee cute
Xinoutorah 2 years ago
wow they have beijing accent too! impressive!
NeztLe06CZT 2 years ago
@NeztLe06CZT
GnothiSauton88 1 year ago
They're all too cute!!! Esp 0:23
Prncessai 2 years ago
Fantastic!!!!!!!!
souleater1994122 2 years ago
actually singaporeans are quite talented in languages, many of them can speak two, three or more different languages fluently. i am not from singapore, but i have quite a few friends there. small amount of intelligent people living on that tiny island, and one of the world's richest, not an easy job.
wxh1937 2 years ago 5
The swiss are quite capable of 3-4 languages as well.
PorkIsHalal 2 years ago 2
@PorkIsHalal some, but definitely not all. many swiss people speak english, and people from german speaking part of switzerland are little bit more language-talented than the other 3 language parts. it also depends on how far people have gone in their education, same as rest of the world.
wxh1937 2 years ago
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partially true, but they are not "pathetic" singaporeans. i once heard from a british woman who lived in singapore for many years, she told me that singaporeans speak "pacific english" which gave her a pretty hard time unterstanding at the beginning, and many times they speak like "okay la":-) but you can't underestimate their english, they speak very good english, it is just they speak it with an accent, but many non mother-tongue english speakers have accent, in france or italy for instance.
wxh1937 2 years ago
They speak WAYY better Chinese than me T____T
XSakuraXCherryX 2 years ago 4
好可爱啊，哈哈。
AnnJeyli 2 years ago 13
天啊太厲害了！
econgyu 2 years ago 2
this is standard chinese spoken in Beijing... i want to say wow.. they are good... speaking mandarin in this standard...
sookwee1980 2 years ago 3
WOW! the first girl's chinese pronounciation is so.... all i coulda say is WOW . LOL :) hahs
PHJfanlol 2 years ago 2
To ahweisg:
Because I worked on this project.
And also today bad mood lah, pai-seh.
lao3liao4 2 years ago
To ahweisg:
If CGI can do until like this you know how much it will cost?
it also shows u know nothing about post production, so please don't say stupid things and make people laugh at you.
lao3liao4 2 years ago
they speak chinese really welll !!!! GREAT
933roastduck 2 years ago
ADORRRABLE !
nanceeerz 2 years ago
they are so cute~~and speak chinese very well
mmnan 2 years ago
What a cute little white,
996208 2 years ago
小鸟说我也可以杀你。
penguinoob 2 years ago 5
yeah like chinese singaporeans won't think that mandarin is important until we see the whites speaking mandarin. that's just sad.
clerisyclerisy 2 years ago 26
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those pathetic singaporeans can't correctly speak any language... they can't ever completely do a single speech in one language... and each language they speak there's a STRONG accent...
guaguatengteng 2 years ago
Excuse me- 'pathetic Singaporeans? Have you ever set foot on S'pore and listen to someone give a speech? Perhaps it's true that a lot of us are not truly bilingual in terms of precision and ease with the lesser used language. I'd be the first to admit that my spoken (formal) Mandarin is a tad rusty. But that does not justify any of your sweeping statements.
Regarding our 'accent'- find me someone who speaks any language w/o one Every culture leaves a different mark on languages- even the USA.
aureliaz 2 years ago
Try trilingual
ArrowHoly 2 years ago
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wxh1937 2 years ago
@clerisyclerisy Lee Kuan Yew is a native English speaker, and tried learning Mandarin.
joe9320 1 year ago
this is the coolest speak chinese campaign EVER.
jrkebab 2 years ago 4
sooooooooooo cute!~hh.i like the last girl!~so lovely
sdo0911 2 years ago
i know right! her name's 'Little Bee!' can you believe it??
mistyeyedsurprise 2 years ago