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By admin, on March 18th, 2009 Source: The Straits Times Page A19, 18 Mar 2009 Speech by: Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew Mandarin has to be the common language of Chinese Singaporeans. If the Government had left language habits to evolve undirected, Chinese Singaporeans would be speaking an adulterated Hokkien-Teochew dialect. To effectively promote Mandarin, we closed down all dialect programmes on [...]  By admin, on March 9th, 2009 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, [...] By admin, on March 8th, 2009 Source: http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/03/a-response-to-mm-lees-private-secretary-on-dialects/, retrieved 8 March 2009 Article by Deng Chao Mr Chee is wrong on all counts. Firstly, the Chinese dialects which he refers to are rightfully languages. Spoken Chinese is distinguished by a high level of internal diversity. There are between six and twelve main regional groups of Chinese (depending on classification scheme). The key language [...] |
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