i wish i were more multilingual and not about speaking swedish, urdu and swahili either. i wish i'd got my teochew and cantonese and hokkien together. in my younger days i always felt that dialects were inferior and was proud I spoke mandarin. i think i was even glad that it would die out after my generation because no one can bug me about not being able to speak teochew or answering in english and mandarin when they talk to me. i want them back now. my mom's family is half cantonese half hokkien, and my dad's family is teochew, and that should be 3 languages i have access to, but no, i came out speaking english and mandarin. i like dialects. they're colourful and legitimate but i've been brainwashed by the singapore government for 20 years to think they are bad and it's too late now, i'm too old to learn them, my accent is ridiculous. i can only understand it, and my children wouldn't be able to speak any dialects either. it's going to die, with me. listening to choonping sing teochew songs two nights ago really makes me upset. do you know how horrible it feels to be that generation where a language dies out? and i can't even learn it as a reading language, unlike latin and greek. i'm very protective about my singlish now because if my children don't speak singlish i will disown them.