As foreign students in Singapore, we are probably going to spend at least ten years in Singapore. During these ten years, we will also probably find our companions and get married. If we have a relationship with a Chinese Singaporean, we may meet communication barriers.
Communication barrier can occur in a relationship between us and Chinese Singaporean. we Chinese are better in Chinese than in English while Chinese Singaporean are opposite. We may not meet difficulties in daily chatting with our Singaporean friends, but the communication between lovers is more than daily chatting. During a date, when Chinese students want express his great affection or subtle feeling about their lovers, they can't help speaking out some simple but meaningful words in Chinese to their lovers. Limited by their level of Chinese, Singaporean will probably not only fail to get the points from those words, but also misunderstand their lovers. The same thing will also happen when Singaporean want to use English to tell their feelings percisely to their Chinese lovers. Love is always subtle and sophisticated. The lovers' unique communication may be hard to go on if they can not understand the deeper meaning of the words from each other.
Having a romance with Chinese Singaporean is totally a new thing to most of us. I do not know so much about that because I have never try it before, but what I am sure about is that if we study English hard enough and manage to master it, we will definitely no longer meet the situation as I mention above.
“During these ten years, we will also probably find our companions and get married.”Hi,boy~~I think we had better not live as 40 years old when we are still young!!Love is not limited and I believe if you love someone in China very much,you can get through these years~~
ReplyDeleteInteresting topic! Improving our English does play an important role in making friends with Chinese Singaporean. The Internet can also help, because we can have more time to think twice and look up words before sending the messages. ^v^
ReplyDeleteAccording to what you have written, finding a Chinese Singaporean wife becomes a motivation for us Chinese boys to learn English... Well, I agree with you. What is more, I think maybe it is not a bad thing having cultural differences with my wife. We can share more things with each other and can learn more from each other.
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