Singlish needs many years of practice and speaking in order master this beautiful language! Mai siao siao loh!

Singlish got so hard to learn meh? You listen to your colleague speak can liao lor. Also hor, must practise everyday ah! My American friends always say "Teach me Singlish leh..." But then I really don't know why siah. I tell them them, "OY, we are in America lah, use Singlish for wat?"

The English used in the Speak Good Singlish programme is way too English. Can do like that meh?

HAHAH I felt awkward watching this LOL like introspect my English HAHHAH who use words like "incredulity" and "skepticism" to describe our words LOL great video mothership! made me smile :)

@vogelvogeltje

3 жыл бұрын

Ok lah

🙏 Thank You So Much Mothership channel & Changi Airport for this insightful tutorial on some of the uniqueness of how some Singaporeans or Residents speak their Singaporean English! Looks like Singlish are mixtures of English + Hokkien + Malay languages or words! 😮🙏

I used to date a Singaporean girl and she always failed to explain what these were, just said in SG people add "extra words that do not mean anything". This video just explains it straightforward, it's like saying "duh", lor

@dingus42

6 ай бұрын

Yep many people who just grew up speaking the language and never understood it from a linguistics POV find it hard to explain the intricacies and grammatical features well, as it just comes naturally to them! Happens for any native language tbh

Man this is so usefull! Love the setting/examples too. The airport is SO nice.

Thanks for this video! I like the creativity. The modifier particles don't seem too hard... but I really had trouble understanding this speaker's words. Many of those words I never would have guessed without them being written out. For example, his "one" sounds like "on" to me.

Ya lor, si bei cute leh, sweetie sia. Envy him la. So pretty colleague

Thank you so much for this funny and fascinating look at Singlish! I was just wandering youtube out of curiousity after a wikipedia dive, but this really helps me understand the tones and useage that I was just reading about.

Excellent (though short) overview! By the way, it was only at 1:33 that I realized the song was from Metropolis Zone in Sonic 2.

This is super helpful, even years after your first posted it! (Of course I wanted to add a particle of some sort to the end here but wasn't sure if lah or leh or something else was the best to add for emphasis)

okay gonna try this on our next office meeting 😂😂😂

Good ….singlish …. I like the sound of singlish… role and twist tongue ❤️😊

really loled at the "bo tscheng hu" machine

naise channel ah!

i love her smile

I am surprised Mothership got video that teach Singlish, really shock me sia.

I wanna ask are these sentence modification means the same when you talk Chinese? 我想知道，這些語氣講華語的時候也一樣的意思嗎？

@yokelengleng

2 жыл бұрын

没错。因为这些助词就是来自华语

Singlish sounds fun but I am not sure if I want to learn it. Dealing with my Chinglish is enough work already.

waah shiok la this video

She's so pretty and curvy

I’m here to impress my coworkers

You can do dialect next.

Why is the song in this video a remix of Metropolis Zone

How about how to speak bad singlish ???

why am i here la , typical malaysian teen myself rlly interested into this singlish thing meh . 😹

Thats very interesting

Handsome uncle

I mostly use thing like “Wah really? 50% off!?” Or “aiyo lah I just clean the floor now u drop milk!? Aiyoo

Doesn’t it come naturally from my mouth. Didn’t know need to teach😂😂😂

东尼大木老师去新加坡了吗？

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 - Metropolis at 01:03

Sounds so awkward and forced sometimes haha

At the end of this video, you will know how to use the words and form the sentences like: Got Speak Good Singlish Movement one meh? Liddat the whole world just type Singlish liao. What is this chiobu's name sia? I want to know her lah. Can a not ah? Her angmoh oso not bad leh. Good lor, this one take b4 covid.

Aaaay snorlax

That’s so hard to remember lah

came looking for the meaning of lah... did i miss it or is it not included in this video?!

@deathrodamus9608

Жыл бұрын

2:05

1st day in Singapore, it was hard to understand their accent especially old Singaporeans...

Don't put in lah in cold because I understand cola

Sonic 2 music tho...

Chan Chun Sing is Good in Singlish.. 😽😸😹

@xxl5712

3 жыл бұрын

He doesn't speak Singlish. It just that his English accent is not that good.

@sgfuture9472

3 жыл бұрын

@@xxl5712 CCS like to say "Kee Chiu", "XiaSuay" and "Buay Tahan" these are Singlish loh

@efx

3 жыл бұрын

@@sgfuture9472 those are Chinese dialects and not Singlish.

@dingus42

6 ай бұрын

@@efx I mean they've all been borrowed into Singlish since long ago. Buay tahan especially is unequivocally a Singlish phrase as it's a mix of words from the Hokkien and Malay languages (though tahan was borrowed into SG Hokkien as well)

Dont forget "issit"

@Tankerrex3

3 жыл бұрын

isn't that a contraction

@NORMA_MICO

3 жыл бұрын

That’s not a modifier at all. ISSIT - that’s how they pronounce the IS IT.

@igzord

3 жыл бұрын

@@NORMA_MICO issit? Sorry lah Paiseh lol

@dingus42

6 ай бұрын

@@NORMA_MICOit is, it is used in ways that English "is it" cannot e.g. "you last time buy that same one issit"

"Siah" is wat sia? Sia from sial wat! Why keep sino-cizing everything one!

@dustinalecxander8647

3 жыл бұрын

No one can escape sinicization 😢

it's sound like Pidgin English.. but Asian version

@dingus42

6 ай бұрын

it basically is lol! it's our own island creole with our local languages taken into in the lexicon, just like all the carribean island creoles with african/indian words etc borrowed in

How come nobody in the airport is wearing mask?

@nuggystan9128

2 жыл бұрын

b4 covid

atleast promote sia lol

As if English wasn't hard enough

How bout ***********

1st

Metropolis Zone

Omg......

No lahhhh

What am I watching 👀 ?

Sadly, many Singaporeans think too highly of themselves, if they met people from the third world countries.

Geon no entendí ni madres

More confused then ever.

Singlish is the worst language in sea imo. I can even understand TH, VN or any other asean countries english better than SG. I literally asked the immigration officer "pardon" 3x about what shes saying before i could understand it. The biggest problem is trying to talk fast even if you know the words but cant pronounce it well.

@firedune

3 жыл бұрын

ok lor

@mikea.1586

3 жыл бұрын

win liao lor

@amneyz5809

3 жыл бұрын

Singlish standard is higher than English. That's why you have difficulty to understand. Only intelligent people can easily understand it. 😅😁😅

@cholesterol804

3 жыл бұрын

Anyways its just a diverse language in Malaysia.

@LittleMissRollerCoaster

3 жыл бұрын

bo wei gong liao loh!

Cringe Lah

Got good Singlish meh? Never heard before leh. Singlish where got good one siah? Singlish meant to be broken English hor.. hahahehehuhu....

Who would want to speak like that?!

@dingus42

6 ай бұрын

the population of singapore

Ahh so wrong this not good English leh

Mega cringe

This is hilarious. The dude sounds idiotic bad grammar, and hopefully spelling was for effects cause that’s wrong too. No one can legitimately take you seriously speaking like that

Why teach ppl how to speak the wrong way?i guess you gotta do any content to make videos=$$$

it's not an accent, it's a drop in quality

@KNME-

Жыл бұрын

*they hated Jesus because He told them the truth*

@dingus42

6 ай бұрын

It's a different language and i dare say a more beautiful one.

I am sorry but ‘singlish’ is just incorrect English come on, you talk about it like it is a dialect, dialects or accents such as Australian English, or Irish accent or UK accent, these dialects are still grammatically correct. Singlish is just Fd up, also lazy and not pronouncing half of what you should. Very ugly. We should refuse this so called singlish to be acknowledged, it is just a reason for them to accept people who can not speak proper English

@legendarypussydestroyer6943

Жыл бұрын

By that same logic Afrikaans is just incorrect and Fd up Dutch

@dingus42

6 ай бұрын

Skill issue lmao learn to speak singlish properly else dont kpkb

So horrible 😂