By Dialects, Singlish

Many Singaporeans do speak very good English, but the reason many western native English speakers don't consider that Singaporeans in general speak 'native English' is because of the predominance of the Singlish dialect. Singlish in it's most extreme forms lacks inflection for tense and plural...

Oh, That's a bit surprising to me. I guess the situation in Indonesia is slowly changing. More and more know how to speak Chinese. Am i right? I'm quite ok with Singlish now. And a lot of times Singaporeans still speak mandrin to us. So there's not much difficulty in communicating with...