By admin, on March 9th, 2009

Dialects make business sense



Source: The Straits Times Forum Page A19, 9 March 2009
Letter by: Ang Kian Chuan

As a result of the ‘no dialect’ policy, we now have a whole generation of children who cannot communicate with their grandparents who know only dialects. It saddens me that my two adult sons, both graduates who speak only English and Mandarin, cannot carry on a conversation with their grandmother, who speaks only Hokkien.

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