Speak Mandarin Campaign 2009 - Full version

They can speak Mandarin and they are not Chinese!

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• Children
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[clerisyclerisy]

yeah like chinese singaporeans won't think that mandarin is important until we see the whites speaking mandarin. that's just sad.

[AnnJeyli]

好可爱啊，哈哈。

[99djc88]

Such jealousy! The kids are still cute.

[healmeholy]

.35 girl the cutest!

[teldrassilz]

i burst out laughing at 0:29

[bliz85]

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.

[doubanjiang]

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.

[joe9320]

@clerisyclerisy Lee Kuan Yew is a native English speaker, and tried learning Mandarin.

[pleasance]

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.

[doctorcalz]

很厉害哦。。。。

[sofis2312]

I can't speak mandarin but the girl in 0:34 sounds more chinese than the others.  Am I right?

[yabiren]

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.