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Luoman -

Chinese people from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia may use a lot of words which are already not
used in today`s Mainland China. For example 车夫 - driver，洋灰 - cement。



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zhenhui -



Quote:

Ncao: Doesn't Singaporean also use 沖涼(which actually is Cantonese) instead of 洗澡 for
'taking a shower'?

Actually I think we use both, depending on the mood^_^

I think the Chinese is quite the same with China and Taiwan, just that we use 简体字 to write?

Cos when I watch shows from Taiwan and China, they all sounds the same...










elizaberth -

晕,

That would be a long essay if u want to point out the differences.I can only say that Singaporeans
still have a long way to go before they can reach the same level of competency in the chinese
language as that of the other chinese 同胞 from China and Taiwan.










Quest -

The accents are close enough to not cause any communication problems. The slangs are a little
different, but can be learned easily.










9公主xx -

I remember that:
for the word 'flat' , in China it is called 公寓、单元房，but in Singapore it is called
组屋。
‘vegetable market’, inChina: 菜市场 in Singapore: 巴刹
and Singapore Chinese seems to have a lot of 啦，咯，咩, which do not really mean anything...










djwebb2004 -

1) I have heard 冲凉 in Kunming for take a shower.
2) 什么来的: there is a northern construction, taught in a book published by 南开大学 in
Tianjin, which all my friends say is northern and not used in the south, which goes like this:
你说什么来着？ What did you just say?










中文的力量 -

I'm taiwanese and the differences between mainland china and taiwan are in prononciation. But
there is not a lot of differences. For exemple z and c (pinyin) are often mix in a zc, same for ch
and zh.

The vocabularie have some differences. Taiwanese use certain words more often than mainland
chinese. For example 幹 means "to do" in china and in taiwan it means a vulgar word that i'll
don't write here










9公主xx -

about 什么来的
the 来的 here is different from the 来着 in 说什么来着.
来的has no meaning here.
来着implies past tense.
hope i made it clear.










Celestialnaut -

As a "generation 1.5" immigrant to the U.S. from Taiwan (I was born there but left at age one),
I've found the differences in accent between Taiwanese and Mainlander Mandarin to be very
different. From my own biased view, Taiwanese Mandarin sounds, well, a bit like "Californian
English." More loose, certain sounds are less stressed "c- instead of ch-", more "informal." Even
accentless, but of course that's just from my perception. (Though it should be noted that
Californian English, like Midwest English, both seem really accentless)

Is my analogy flawed? In what way is Taiwanese Mandarin related to Mainlander Mandarin, to use the
same English analogy?










Luoman -



Quote:

for the word 'flat' , in China it is called 公寓、单元房，but in Singapore it is called
组屋。

Yes, and a block of such flats is called 组楼












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