In which Pez wastes space on your friends list!

[pez]

I was just thinking how many people around here don't actually speak English as their first language. On my flist, I have Chinese (Mainland/HK, and I don't know if Taiwanese and Singaporeans like to call themselves Chinese), Filipino, Brazilian, Portugese, French, German, Norwegian, Finns (is that the right word?), Argentinian, Vietnamese, Indonesian... and others I can't think of right now because I lost some brains through my nose this morning. XD

I know we all mostly write in English because that's the language most understands around here. My question is, how come everyone's English is so good? Is it because you live/lived overseas? You learned it in school and keep practising online? You love reading English books?

Don't mind me, I'm just curious. XD Here, watch Roy dance.

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[carsmash.livejournal.com]

Eh, just stumbled upon your lj XD

I'm from Singapore, but Singaporeans in general don't call themselves Chinese :D We have a Chinese majority, but the government pretty much stresses the fact that we are Not A Chinese Country (since the Malays were the original settlers, before the immigrants from China and India and Europe) and we must embrace ze multi-racialism 8D I'm Singaporean, but I'm not Chinese.

And the Ministry of Education pretty much makes it compulsory for all Singaporeans to take up two languages during their compulsory years of education (English, and their Mother Tongue), so most of us start learning English at an early age, and most of our subjects are taught in English since that's the language most relevant today and somewhat a common language between all the seperate races.

I love, love, love langauges *sparkly eyes* :-*

And would you mind if I friended you? XD