Can't speak well in english is a shame for a Chinese?

本帖最后由 K.H. 于 2012-9-24 12:51 PM 编辑

I do feel ashamed when I first enter college 6 years ago, even worse, with my ah beng look..
so maybe you guys can start to imagine: a guy from Klang, and from Chinese school, never even went to Subang and now pursue further study at The One Academy, surrounding by those so called 'cooler' classmates from KL, you can imagine how low my self-esteem at that time..

all I can do is sticked with 2 international students where one of them from Philippine and another from Mongolia... it was real hard and yeah, I do feel ashamed as I can't really communicate with them, but day by day I've been forced to spoke english with my 2 international friends and then, I changed my outlook.. and soon, the class started to know my existence~

and now, I came back from 10 months staying at London for degree study, most of my friends are local English, but thanks to those that mocked on me before this~ might as well thanks to those that willing to talk to me before this, and thanks to all my UK mates.. I might not be an expert in English but at least, it is not a problem for me anymore

well to me, it is not something to be ashamed of if the person is willing to buck up his/her english, nobody is perfect hehe, everybody learn from mistakes.
to me english is more like an important language as it is internationalized..to develop a decent proficiency in english is definitely a plus point right
on a side note, i think every race should also learn how to speak in their mother-tongues. i admit im a bad mandarin speaker =.= i can even misplace the words in simple chinese idioms. but hey, no worries, as long as we all learn

It's good, you are well speaking in English, but it's shameful that if you are a CHINESE but you don't know how to speak in Chinese.

need to learn only actually quite easy everyday u listen to radio will know a lot

I guess YES. me personally is degree student. Sometimes feel awkward when facing international student!
haha, but when it really come to a circumstances that you really don't understand then just ask or say your english not good. I think your friend will understand

Do you know that there are actually some bananas who would laugh at the Chinese-educated people for their broken English? And they're so proud of not knowing how to speak Chinese.

当然。。。社会试现实的

I am poor in English ...my gf many ang moh style friend...so cham

When they all chat ah,i very scare they throw me question ==''

i know some english speaking chinese (not all!）that is laughing people who cant speak well in english, anyway, that's their small world they are living in. pathetic

who said so? in the world one third of chinese success without even know how to communicate in english either written or spoken language, in this world english is nothing, if you have a business mind u can succeed easily, some of my friends that came from china their parents were either farmers or businessman, they succeed in their career but did not managed to capture any single knowledge that is why mana china students came over to either singapore or malaysia to further educate themselves as they do not want to fail their parents whom spend a huge sum of money to educate them in return they must return this favour to their parents by educating back them. for me personally it is a disgrace for me if i do not understand the importance of english as many civilians nowadays at least understand a sentence of english.