What is there to be proud or ashamed of? I am not an Indian like you who was brought up in a country where only the elites speak (broken) English and therefore take pride in learning English. In fact, you are extremely lucky to be able to escape from abject poverty by coming to Spore hope you realise that.prkravi wrote:That makes you Proud?breedmon wrote: The figure is around 10-20%, definitely not 0.01%.
breedmon wrote: Singapore is one of the best debating teams in the world's English debating championship.
Yeah, I keep hearing the school children and teens talking in the MRT, in a way which can be only understood by them.
Sporeans like myself are educated entirely in English and come from English speaking households, naturally it is the only language I feel comfortable using.
Everyone knows Singapore is a multi cultural country and people have different first languages. English is the second lang, not the first, for a big part of the society.
For what it is worth, I found it much easier to get around speaking English before 2 million immigrants like yourself came in. Now I have to point just to order food