Monday, August 04, 2008

How good is good enough

我以前在国中念书。我想我的中文程度,应该比不上独中生。

马来西亚的“华教斗士”,老爱抱怨说华人忽略母语教育。但在这里,国文决定“生死”,英文决定未来。虽然热爱中文,还是得花一些时间进修另外两个语文科。

后来有机会到中国的广州市去。在那儿,我发现原来我讲的华语,居然比许多广州人讲的普通话来的标准!为什么华教斗士还是像深宫怨妇那般不停发牢骚?

How good is good enough

Related post: 标准华语

12 comments:

  1. 这是一个很好的问题...

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  2. day-dreamer
    You are really a night owl...

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  3. O.O woh~~ arent u kidding??
    guang dong is china area wor~ somemore all is used chinese word de...x.X

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  4. 见人见智吧!就算说的有多标准,还是会有人在鸡蛋内挑骨头的。。。

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  5. anne
    Cantonese is the most widely spoken language in Gaungzhou. They call it 白话.
    I saw these words on a pedestrian overpass in Guangzhou...
    上/落

    christine
    华教斗士 are the people who 鸡蛋内挑骨头...

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  7. 华教斗士是怕我们忘本嘛。人家烂,我们为什么和人家比烂?
    还有,华教斗士“怨”的是华人子弟不愿学华语,不是华语不够标准吧?!
    当年他们辛苦办华教,让马来(西)亚的华人也能接受华教;然而有人有机会也放弃,他们怎么不心痛?
    我也是国中生,学校没有华文老师,念华语是星期六特别上课的。喜欢就来,不来也没什么后果。即使如此,我还是没有缺席过任何一堂。

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  8. sinji
    A teacher of mine liked to say, "Chinese must speak Chinese." That's more than just "learning Chinese" 学华语. Instead, everyone who speaks English is considered a banana man.

    I used to agree with him, until I was in the university. Today I write in English, so in a sense I have transformed from a potential 华教斗士 to a banana man, hahaha...

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  9. sinji
    One more thing: 华教斗士 now insist that Maths and Science must be taught in Chinese. That again shows that they demand more than "learning Chinese".

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  10. Well, I agreed with sinji!
    "人家烂,我们为什么和人家比烂?"

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  12. kai
    The problem is: we are not 烂 at all.
    And we shouldn't sacrifice English.

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