Which do Singapore speak more widely among Chinese and English?

>>79095135
They speak a bastardised form of english called "singlish' which is a mix of english, chinese, iindian, and malay

>>79095135
Most Singaporeans who claim to speak English don't speak it very well. They sound like Uncle in Jackie Chan Adventures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo4ufPKTq0E

>>79095537
awesome

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English is growing. Mandarin is declining. Dialects are quite dead amongst young people.

>>79095920
Mandarin (official) 36.3%, English (official) 29.8%, Malay (official) 11.9%, Hokkien 8.1%, Cantonese 4.1%, Tamil (official) 3.2%, Teochew 3.2%, other Indian languages 1.2%, other Chinese dialects 1.1%, other 1.1% (2010 est.)

I read Worldfact data that mandarin is used more than english. Is there a lot of Chinese immigrants?

>>79095920
Mandarin? How come not Cantonese?

>>79096518
They want to speak relevant languages only

There's a lot of mainland Chinese immigrants, but also many immigrants from other countries such as India.

English is still the main working language because non-Chinese are Singaporeans too. It's rude to speak in Mandarin if there's someone who can't understand it taking part in the conversation.

>>79096518
The largest dialect group in Singapore is Hokkien. Dialects were discouraged by the government and banned from broadcast. The government believed that learning English, Mandarin and a Chinese dialect would be too difficult for most people. They also wanted to unify the Chinese population. In the past, dialect groups have fought each other and gangs were organized based on dialect group. Finally, this >>79096650. Speaking English and Mandarin was considered more relevant for work.