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Originally Posted by SingViet
My bx know some Mandarin when i first met her. Thru the years, i talk to her daily in mandarin and correct her if necessary. One thing about my bx is that she watch a lot of taiwanese drama serial on Channel 8. She says she learned a lot of her mandarin there. She also talked to my parents and siblings in mandarin. My children communicate with my bx in mandarin, i disallow my kids to learn Tieng Viet as i want them to master both English and Mandarin to a certain level so that they can do well in school. These few years after my children went to school, my bx learned english from my kids. My family operates differently from other families with viet spouse. My bx had a hard life since young and after being with me for the past decade, i educate her a lot thru TV news and also newspaper. I will explain to her what the papers say about vietnam and what's on current affairs daily. She understands and agree with my way of educating and bringing up my kids. I always tell my kids that they are Singaporean chinese, not vietnamese. Although their mother is vietnamese, but since my bx married me, then my kids are chinese.
I bring my bx to coffeeshops to eat, teach her about local food and also local customs. The only thing is that my bx is not too good with Singapore as i drive her everywhere she goes. She has only taken the MRT twice for the past many years and have never taken the bus before in Singapore. My bx understands that she is a Singaporean now and she needs to adapt to the life here. My bx doesn't ask to go back VN all the time. We will only go VN when we need to meet customers in Saigon. My bx's family made her very disaapointed and she places her effort and love in me and my kids.
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My wife no need me to educate.she automatically tell me our baby must stay in singapore and get educated here.
She is not educated but she know vietnam is not a good place for children to grow up with cos the environment and due to lots of bad company there
She like singapore for law and order and most important is our clean environment