Category: Songs and Poems : 歌曲和诗歌

I was born in Singapore in 1940. I am of Chinese descent, my father was an indented worker from Panyu, Guangzhou ( formerly Canton). My education was essentially English, British English during the colonial days. From young in Chinatown, Singapore, I can speak two Chinese dialects (Hokkien and Cantonese) and three languages (Chinese, English, and Malay). Colloquially all Singapore children in the 1960s spoken English with both Chinese and Malay phrases in almost all English sentences and we were proud of this version of English, known as Singlish. 我于1940年在新加坡出生。我是中国血统，父亲是广州番遇的缩进工人。在殖民时代，我的教育基本上是英语，英国英语。我来自新加坡唐人街的年轻人，我会说两种汉语方言（福建话和广东话）和三种语言（汉语，英语和马来语）。 1960年代，所有新加坡儿童口语化，几乎在所有英语句子中都讲中文和马来语短语的英语，我们为此版本的英语而感到自豪。 In schools under the British system, there was no need […]