SG Speaker Corner

[Domination]

Still have one year to stress (or less). And my O Level Chinese oral is coming soon! Wtf I will probably stutter like hell.

 

[mrfatso]

well, one good tip is to go to your mirror and try talking to yourself, praticise speaking with yourself

Unless u have someone to practice with you then all the better

Just make sure u are at a private places or else u get all those stares like u are a mad person or something... pff, so what if i talk to myself regularly? Doesn't mean i am insane...

 

[elixirdream]

is just chinese! no worries~!
you can ask mrfatso how wonderful my chinese is

censored~!~!

 

[mrfatso]

ya, too pro already, i have to censor him or the internet will kaboom

 

[Domination]

Do Malaysians take O Levels too?

 

[mrfatso]

i think they got something similar to our O level test.

 

[Domination]

I think I read in newspaper they take SATM or SPATM or something like that.

But I don't care about chinese. I don't really like it anyways. And I can still retake next year.

 

[elixirdream]

UPSR = year 6

PMR = year 9

O level = SPM = year 11

A level = STPM = year 12 or i would say year 13

since it is as long as 1.5-2 years

 

[mrfatso]

I think I read in newspaper they take SATM or SPATM or something like that.

But I don't care about chinese. I don't really like it anyways. And I can still retake next year.

haha, retake chinese O level like me

good good, the retake version is alot easier than the first

U know what's the funny thing ? I have a friend who score distinction for his Higher Chinese O level, then he go retake the Higher Chinese O level again, end up he got B3 i think, hahaha

 

[Domination]

You take higher chinese too?

And well, I think the odds of me retaking chinese is high. My chinese has sucked since primary school.

 

[elixirdream]

whats the difficulty of chinese for o level ?

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

I feel sorry for you guys that have to learn Chinese. It's so hard IMO.

 

[Domination]

Not if you learn it since young!

But mine still sucks.

But Chinese is a useful langauge really. China is rising now and with chinese, you can deal with the chinese. Plus, the Japanese kanji (idk what its called) is quite simillar to chinese characters. Heck, when I played japanese yugioh cards I use my chinese to read the effects first.

 

[Splych]

So we are talking about chinese things now

I felt like joining after reading the first page... Domination was just talking about some Korean games like MapleSEA and then I saw DotA. So then I decided to join x)

 

[Domination]

LOL. Dunno why but many of the Singaporeans (yeah, most of my friends) really, really, really, really ...... ,really like those games. I don't see the point of total crazing over them (splurging on them? wtf)....

Guess Singaporeans will only like foreign things more. Sad.

 

[mrfatso]

whats the difficulty of chinese for o level ?

as hard as chinese SA2

in other words( its pretty easy as long as i have my assesment book to practice ;D

@domination:
Nope, i take normal chinese, not smart enough to handle higher chinese

ya, its called kanji, BUT darn it... learning chinese and kanji might be a disadvantage instead, since some of the meaning for kanji are totally different then the chinese counterpart so its pretty easy to get confused

u know what is worse?Every freaking day i wake up to my friend singing "reign of chaos... reign of chaos.." its driving me nuts!!, arghh, what is soo good about dota anyway? choose a character aim towards enemy main base, defeat them, rinse and repeat...

maplestory? create a character and grind grind grind, 24//7 grind grind grind, and gain that pathetic 0.01% and be a fag, yes, don forget to be a fag and defame guys for totally no reason at all and don forget to be a jerk and treat a map as your own territory, yes its a mmo but seriously, why the heck can't people share one fking map, all i wanted to do is just do my quest, but Noooo, u guys have to keep stealing my kicks just cos i am at a lower level and i am a freaking support style cleric arghh

 

[xoinx]

Not if you learn it since young!

But mine still sucks.

But Chinese is a useful langauge really. China is rising now and with chinese, you can deal with the chinese. Plus, the Japanese kanji (idk what its called) is quite simillar to chinese characters. Heck, when I played japanese yugioh cards I use my chinese to read the effects first.
true, and when most of the older generation in the country speaks it (albeit in a more broken form XD ) you tend to pick it up real fast unknowingly. it's pretty easy once you get a hang of it, and it helps that the grammar structure is quite close to english.


QUOTE(mrfatso @ Jul 3 2009, 09:52 AM) @domination:
Nope, i take normal chinese, not smart enough to handle higher chinese

ya, its called kanji, BUT darn it... learning chinese and kanji might be a disadvantage instead, since some of the meaning for kanji are totally different then the chinese counterpart so its pretty easy to get confused

hmmm, i can understand how sometimes the kanji don't seem to fit the context in chinese, but that's because chinese has evolved since the time japanese branched off from the language. if you read plenty of old texts, you probably find more thinks in common than you know... that is if you can understand those texts LOL.

that said, chinese translations of my favourite drama/mangas are much more accurate than those in english, cos the translators are usually asians so they connect better with the context of the stories and the languages are just so much more alike!

 

[Domination]

Though I speak more Chinese than English, I still find it hard to converse eloquently with chinese. Too many words to know. English only has alphabets which is easier.

And i tend to stutter worse in Chinese oral than English oral.

sigh

 

[xoinx]

haha i speak to a lot of prc friends so my mandarin actually not bad, but my friends always say a kan tang (dialect for potato) and i get quite offended :S

oddly i only got merit for my o level oral

 

[iPikachu]

learning kanji's better than chinese >_> there isn't any chinese games(or music, or shows) out there for me to play, i don't have any motivation at all to learn.

u know what is worse?Every freaking day i wake up to my friend singing "reign of chaos... reign of chaos.." its driving me nuts!!, arghh, what is soo good about dota anyway? choose a character aim towards enemy main base, defeat them, rinse and repeat...

maplestory? create a character and grind grind grind, 24//7 grind grind grind, and gain that pathetic 0.01% and be a fag, yes, don forget to be a fag and defame guys for totally no reason at all and don forget to be a jerk and treat a map as your own territory, yes its a mmo but seriously, why the heck can't people share one fking map, all i wanted to do is just do my quest, but Noooo, u guys have to keep stealing my kicks just cos i am at a lower level and i am a freaking support style cleric arghh

well dota players get a somewhat sense of "pride" when they play with their friends, my brother always makes fun of people who lost to him.
my brother is such a mapletard

the last time the laptop accidentally restarted he almost threw the laptop o-o