Letters
Response to Education Minister’s stance on learning dialects
Minister Heng says that “As people get older, a strong foundation in the two languages will allow them to get into learning dialects if they wish” and “You don’t have to start learning these during primary school”.
Why would anyone wish to learn dialects later in life when all their peers did not learn during childhood and are not able to converse in dialects? As far as the younger generation is concerned, dialect was dead.
The sad part is such a policy has destroyed what could have been a healthy development of a child/grandparent relationship.

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