According to wiki, Singapore official languages are Tamil, Malay, English and Mandarin. So, just curious do they learn Malay language like what we do during primary and sec education? Cause i got one singaporean friend, he is chinese but he knows nothing bout malay.

Yes, but Malay to Malay ok they speak singlay
Chinese to Malay they speaking singlish

i mean like are the chinese over there having decent knowledge bout malay language? i mean at least at a conversational level like us.

Nearlee is it?

Older generation Chinese speak Malay well, but newer generation do not learn Malay as it is an optional language. So their Malay language is restricted to their national service exposure, school crowd or working environment. If they do take Malay as an optional language, then they might be more fluent.

This also is affecting newer generation Malays as their parents speak English more as a home language. So they depend on their optional language subject in school as their only means of speaking Malay.

Some of my Malay colleagues kids don't speak conversational Malay at all other than the common words included in their vocabulary.

No. They don't. Older generations knows it, but not the current generation.
Some of the politicians can do it pretty well.

Actually I can tell u the pure Chinese for the young generation
They really dunno more than 10 Malays speaking.
Nasir Lemak tea tarik they ok
If talking from Chinese with Malay
Just one language call singlish or English

even ur malay colik kids no speak decent malay?? u mean singaporean malay is it? or include malaysia malay too?

I am at Tokyo now and met this Jap girl working at the hotel concierge. She spoke fluent Malay. I asked her how she know and told me she lived in KL for few years.

If few years can speak like that, and local don't know, malu lah .

This post has been edited by Jag23sys: Feb 11 2017, 07:22 PM

Yes
Some of them. Some of them talk macam sial

Bingding why dont u go sg instead travel and find uncle kimsim

singlish is as "high-class" as southern british accent or canadian english accent?

acherlli i got job offer last time, but i declined la. cause i sked sg many pervert

Cos in sg chinese learn chinese, Malay learn Malay and Indian learn Tamil, each race learn their respective mother tongue n chinese thr don't learn malay

but i have sg chinese fren, and she doesnt even know chinese! she knows hokkien a bit and english, but dono what is mandarin!!

ts u dont have to look far.. see how eheem population in Malaysia.. barely speak malay and/or understand malay ...

and malay is our only national language

simply say. saya bangsa cina, tetapi bahasa melayu saya dapat A dan saya masih fasih berbahasa melayu sehingga sekarang. bahasa melayu itu bahasa kebangsaan negara saya. oleh itu, saya rajin menghafal kamus dewan waktu saya masih zaman persekolahan dulu. Bukan sahaja tatabahasa, ejaan dan penulisan, saya memiliki loghat macam orang melayu waktu saya berkomunikasi!

u dont care other ppl business then ok lo
Sg more safe than my. U think too much la.

Im going nz for holiday visa soon. Yolo is not a dream, oh wai

holiday visa meaning what? u gonna work in nz soon?

They know F4 as well.

i think u dunno england speaking also..