Singapore Forums | Marketplace for Feedback and Happenings » dialects http://www.singaporeforums.net Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:19:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Nurturing a key advantage http://www.singaporeforums.net/2009/03/18/nurturing-a-key-advantage/ http://www.singaporeforums.net/2009/03/18/nurturing-a-key-advantage/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:17:00 +0000 editor http://www.singaporeforums.net/?p=86 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 radio and TV [...]]]> 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 radio and TV from 1979.

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