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29-03-2023, 08:10 PM
As 40% of our population are not Singaporeans, or to put it in another way, 4 out of 10 peepur you see are not Singaporeans, we can sexpect to hear all kinds of languages being spoken.
Personal sexperience: I have heard yup! Tagalog being spoken at workplaces, Burmese, Hindi, Vietnamese, and yup! various Chinese dialects from various regions of China. Even those from Malaysia, they are speaking Cantonese, a lot of it which our zoomers can't even understand.
Of course, there are also Japanese, Italian, German, Korean, French, Thai.
Not all foreigners come from English-speaking countries right.
This is why we chose English as our putonghua.
Pritam Singh wants all new citizens to be able to speak English. If you cannot speak it or at least speak a few basic words, or even understand it, it is best that you work at the back end where colleagues can speak your language, say Mandarin.
In a FMCG environment where you are facing customers all the time, customers who may be Burmese, Pinoys, Indians, Malays, Eurasians, French, Japanese, etc who do not speak Mandarin, it is not advisable to put a non-English speaking staff in the front line.
Personal sexperience: I have heard yup! Tagalog being spoken at workplaces, Burmese, Hindi, Vietnamese, and yup! various Chinese dialects from various regions of China. Even those from Malaysia, they are speaking Cantonese, a lot of it which our zoomers can't even understand.
Of course, there are also Japanese, Italian, German, Korean, French, Thai.
Not all foreigners come from English-speaking countries right.
This is why we chose English as our putonghua.
Pritam Singh wants all new citizens to be able to speak English. If you cannot speak it or at least speak a few basic words, or even understand it, it is best that you work at the back end where colleagues can speak your language, say Mandarin.
In a FMCG environment where you are facing customers all the time, customers who may be Burmese, Pinoys, Indians, Malays, Eurasians, French, Japanese, etc who do not speak Mandarin, it is not advisable to put a non-English speaking staff in the front line.
