This Work Is Done Now!
...and it's all thanks to our group (duh!) and here are they, in alphabetical order!

adeline: in charge of the surveys, as she created them and she tabulated the results. also, during our final macromedia flash presentation, she helped come up with the storyline.

doreen: the leader, and the one who did the report, she helped in the making of this website, was in charge of administrative matters, helped in the making of the macromedia flash presentation and oversaw the project.

nilawan: one of the official 'translators', she was in charge of the powerpoint presentations, and during our final macromedia flash presentation, she helped come up with the storyline.

seraphine: in charge of the website, she of course, helped make it. she also helped in the making of the macromedia flash presentation.

sheila: one of the official 'translators', she was in charge of the group speeches and the rest of the presentations, she also helped come up with the storyline of our final macromedia flash presentation.

all of us helped each other in the various aspects of our jobs, and all of us distributed the surveys out - so what we learnt here was again - teamwork!

Chinese - Important?
many students nowadays do not take their chinese seriously - mainly because the subject is sometimes not counted in some exams, and most students feel that english takes a higher place in society!

in the 1950s, long ago in singapore, when the british ruled, they gave the english-speaking people more privileges, and took the chinese-speaking people to be of a lower level - even some singaporeans think the 'ang mor' people get a higher place - they don't know chinese, but they are well-versed in english, and they get a higher position! but our group found: this is not true, because chinese is still very important, especially in singapore! here are the reasons why chinese is so important:

1. we, as chinese, must learn to speak chinese, our own language, properly! *winks* (it's sort of a patriotic thing...)

2. when we go around singapore, many people, especially elderly folks, speak chinese. if we do not know how to converse with them properly (eg. the wet market sellers), it would be an embarassment! also, it would be a disgrace on our generation! (-_-")

3. when one grows up and gets a job, especially one that requires you to be involved a lot with your clients and he/she speaks chinese, it would be bad if you can't talk back properly - you might even lose that client - or your job! ^-^

therefore, students should make an effort to learn their chinese properly, as it would probably affect his/her future! of course, that doesn't mean that the student should neglect his/her english, either!

Survey Results
wait - under construction!

Why?
so we asked ourselves: why are the students all talking in broken chinese? so, we conducted a hundred surveys on the pupils in our school, and found out:

1. some pupils felt is was better/cooler/nicer to talk in this way to express themselves.

2. some pupils did not know how to say the words in chinese, and therefore spoke english instead in the chinese conversation.

some pupils dislike chinese, especially boys. it is strange that more boys dislike the subject than compared to girls, but we don't think there can be anything done about that. however, we found out that the students of course, dislike the subject because they are weak in it. or, they speak broken-chinese because of the many influences. this could be because:

1. their family is an english-speaking family, or a family that speaks other languages/dialects. therefore, the students are not exposed to chinese at home and cannot cope with the subject.

2. there is influence through the media - like the television and the internet. many students have started to speak 'singlish' or other languages mixed together, instead of chinese, from watching television shows, like phua chu kang, etc.

3. chinese students now mix freely around with students of other races (unlike times in the past where racial riots occur), and through their influence, they mix the chinese language with other languages that they learn from their friends, resulting in broken-chinese.

Introduction
the five of us had to go around the school, secretly spying on other people's conversations, and noting/jolting/recording down what they said. of course, most pupils used 'singlish', our singaporean language, which is mostly english mixed with other languages. most pupils did not speak proper chinese and often, their sentences were like this:

1. i where got so bo liao until like this one ('like this one' was actually spoken in chinese)? (translated: i'm not so bored as to do this!)

2. eh, that hello kitty bag very ugly ('ugly' was actually spoken in chinese)! (translated: that hello kitty bag is very ugly!)

3. oi, cha si lang leh, you shaddap ('shaddap' was actually spoken in chinese) lar! (translated: you're very noisy, can you please keep quiet!)

...and so on...

Welcome!
welcome to our website! our school, fairfield methodist secondary (singapore) asked the students to arrange themselves in groups of five choose a reasearch and development (a.k.a. "r & d") topic and make a website out of the topic - and the topic happens to be that title over there. ^-^ this project is about the interference of other languages in our mother tongue, which is chinese (example, english and chinese mixed together). the people in our group: adeline, doreen, nilawan, seraphine and sheila had to find out how other languages were interfering with the chinese language when talking.