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Rotten English Posted 18 years ago
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Guess the accent

0Here's a link to a youtube video which I uploaded. Do you understand our accent? Can you guess where we're from? (I'm the cameraman so you don't see me) 02br
00English is the first language of all people(regardless of race) brought up here. It is also the official language in our country, but some native English speakers despise our accent. Is it that bad? You be the judge...05102br
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0Singapore! Love the place, been there a lot last year - your country is great, the people are friendly, the service ANYWHERE is amazing and the economy is strong.. 010id5

  • 0Singapore!
  • Love the place, been there a lot last year - your country is great, the people are friendly, the service ANYWHERE is amazing and the economy is strong..
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0Singapore! Love the place, been there a lot last year - your country is great, the people are friendly, the service ANYWHERE is amazing and the economy is strong.. Yes, the accent is a little hard to understand sometimes 05000 - but I for one, am happy to hear it anywhere!010id5
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0 I didn't know it was the first language there. I thought it was a second language... And I thought it was called Singlish, which is English and some other language (Chinese?) together. 0-
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0Wow! you're amazing! never thought that anyone would get it right, much less even know that my country existed! 0-
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0Haha, at least you know a bit about singapore. But yea, English is our first language. Singlish is Singapore's unofficial first language and it is heavily peppered with local slang. In fact, some of the sentence structures of certain singlish phrases are taken from mandarin or malay, so they may not make much sense from an English perspective. For the older generations especially, some people O

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