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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For Asia, Japan, Korea, or Singapore.[/quote]

You do realize they don’t speak Mandarin there, right? [/quote]

DP, and I live in Singapore.  Mandarin is WIDELY spoken here: it's the second language, after English.  I'm American and don't speak Mandarin, but I hear it every day.  Outside, shopping, at hawker centers, overhearing my Singaporean colleagues chatting in Mandarin amongst themselves: everywhere.  Even "Singlish", a common local vernacular, is English modeled on Mandarin sentence structures, with Mandarin words woven in.

If OP's child wanted to speak Mandarin in Singapore, he could easily do it every day with people who are native speakers, on all levels of society.

Oh, and the majority of Singaporeans do NOT sound like the characters on Crazy Rich Asians.  I think that was source of your misunderstanding, PP.   Crazy Rich Asians...is not real.  [/quote]

Singaporean Mandarin is quite different than standard, with different grammar and vocabulary.[b] Like you wouldn’t call Singlish speakers “native” speakers of English[/b]. [/quote]

Yes, I would, because the majority of Singlish speakers readily code-switch between standard English (for work, speaking to non-Singlish speakers, etc) and Singlish and Mandarin.

I don't speak Mandarin so can't comment for sure about the differences in that, but I do know that MANY people here were born/raised in China, so I would imagine their Mandarin is indeed "Chinese Mandarin."  I'd be surprised if "Singapore Mandarin" is different because there is just so much interaction and exposure to "China Chinease" and their media, culture, and natives who moved here.  [/quote]

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