I found that Singaporean Chinese is so hard to follow.
I can understand Mainland chinese and Taiwanese Chinese but I seriously can't understand Singaporean Chinese.

*shrugs*

are u sg??

nope.

Singaporean chinese girls....

well if u are not SG, then that's okay.

You sounds as you are SG.

Singapore mandarin give you a dash of singapura slang - just like the singapore sling

Ah! But I just find it hard to understand their accent.

*shurgs* Maybe it's just me.
I talked to my friend about this and she also agreed SG chinese sounds FOB; really bad.

guess it has to do with the cantonese and hokkien accent and slangs that are built into the statement.

like a general statement consist of mandarin, english and dialects ...

u too my dear... yr grammar is juz so FOB! hee!

That's wierd. I have spoken to Mainlanders and Taiwanese and we can perfectly understand each other. We have an accent but we are not ashamed of it. Perhaps your Mandarin is not too good?
Anyway you cannot classify all mainland chinese together. Even in China, they have different accents. You go to Beijing you have the Beijing accent, you go to Shanghai you have shanghai accent. Go further west of China and their accents will be worse than ours.

How is Singaporean Chinese different from Chinese in China and Taiwan?

simple the slang and the arrangement of english words !

it is normal as the culture is different.. try getting a malaysian or indonesian to speak mandarin.. maybe a korean or japanese to do it.. you will get worst ones.. singaporean are not brought up in a total chinese culture.. + the national language is not chinese too.. sg is a multi-racial nation.

even when it comes to english.. like some may say singaporeans speaks "singlish" rather than english.. again thats normal.. try comparing the UK english & the US english.. worst case, try getting a french or german to speak english..

singaporean's malay also varies to that of it neighboring countries.. even malaysia's malay differs from that of indonesia..

so it a matter of who "officiated" the use of that language first.. many say UK english is the "most correct" but most younger generation internationally applies the US english due to much influence of holywood movies, america songs etc..

its just because the chinese language is a tonal language so when someone say a word with a different tone, it means the wrong thing. sg chinese has some sg accent mixed into it. its pretty normal. but i guess sometimes the 'outsiders' of sg just finds it odd. even my chinese friends who came from china complains about one of my friends' mandarin from taiwan ... <.<'' chinese people are sometimes too fussy with the whole tonal thing cuz it has different meanings.
unlike english, indonesian or japanese where .. when you say a word, no matter how you say it, it means exactly the same thing ~~

Wait till you hear the myriad MY (Malaysian) Chinese, which closely related to SG Chinese.

Well dear, MY & SG street Mandarins are butchered versions thanks to Hokkien, Hakka, Foochow, Teochew, Cantonese slangs prevalent in the region.

Aiyohhhh, learn the local way mahhhh ...

Hey thanks. Got it. Listen and learn.
thanks ^^

I know,you will notice a huge different by the look at first,the wears & the skin tonality....4seasons country skin tend tobe more supple.

The Singaporean chinese are generally of southern chinese stock, since their ancestry were largely Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese, Hakka and Hainanese (originated from Fujian and Guangdong province). So naturally, their looks are closer to that of southern chinese (which are different from that of northern chinese, who look more like Mongolians).

However, recent immigrants from different parts of mainland China are bringing some change to the ethnic composition of chinese in Singapore. They came during the 1990s and are now classified under the Mandarin speaking dialect group of Singapore.

Most Singaporean chinese speak Mandarin in the same way as like Singlish. The Singaporean Mandarin is mixed with English, Hokkien and other chinese dialect as well as Malay.

chinese dialect in media? only Mandarin?

They just have their unique way of taking. I can understand them - both chinese and english.

How many percent of Singaporian are Chinese? Anyone knows the figure?

Mandarin is mandarin anyway, singaporean accent are quite understandable.

60-79% of the population

I consider myself to be an articulated good looking good nature Chinese guy from the mainland.

However, when I was in college in the US, the Singaporean girls are "cool" or even unfriendly towards me. I wonder why, even though I was popular among the Taiwanese girls.

Maybe you simply don't float their boat.

I came away with this, right or wrong I don't know since my experience is limited:

Singaporean girls are a kind of stuck up (at least in the US).

Wonder any Singaporeans and non-Singaporeans would agree with me.

That's quite bull$hit. I can always tell apart a Mongolian.

North eastern Chinese have some tungustic features, but Chinese proper from the yellow river region looks like this:







tangawizi you have to show us what you sound like

Cmon, Manchu/tungusic people cannot be distinguished from han chinese only by looks. Northeastern chinese still look like central chinese, they are quite different from the koreans.

Look at them Haerbin people:



How are they different from chinese in henan, shandong, anhui etc except for the fact that they are almost untouched by sunlight

I have no trouble understand their Mandarin,the ones I have trouble with are those from Mainland China

Well yeah true, taiwanese and singaporean speak 'clear-er' mandarin than sichuan, beijing people. The mainlanders can understand taiwanese and singaporean but not vice versa.

manchu/吴 blend


inner mongolian


It's true that no Chinese group looks like Koreans.

this is a good thread on a beautiful girl from each province (switch to flat view)
http://house.focus.cn/msgview/4266/1/111855036.html

I remember it took me soooo long to finally figure out what those few Mainlanders were trying to say the last time I had to deal with them.

LOL ... yes yes I remember my Taiwan friends told me they have to put up their ears and listen carefully when I'm speaking to them

Well, I guess that no one wants to enlighten me.

Are Singaporean girls friendly (a general question)?

Do Singaporean girls have this thing for not liking mainland Chinese guys?

Are SG girls generally friendly? In general, I'll say yes. But if ure in a club and ure trying to get to know/or pick up a girl, I'd say no..

As for the 2nd question, I'm gonna have to say yes, but that's probably gonna change in the near future.

mmmm, manchu blend. I always get that at Starbuck

I hope so. A lot of our mainland brothers are cool.

We are not going to bite.

Aiya watch this video for more clue on the Singaporean lingo lor!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WQlmY_BwC6k&feature=related

singaporean speak singlish, a mixture of singapore english