Do u think learning dialects n its culture will help us to have
a better sense of belonging to ur origin?
Lee Kuan Yew won't allow.
MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew yesterday reiterated his stand against Chinese
dialects, saying that learning dialects adds to a child's
burden.
Also, it takes away the child's time
and energy from mastering English and
Mandarin, he said.
In addition, English and Mandarin differ
in their vocabulary, phonetics and syntax and adding on dialects
will cause 'negative interferences' in the
learning of the two languages, he added.
In defending the decision to promote Mandarin over dialects, he
also noted that the value of a language is its
usefulness...
http://www.pmo.gov.sg/News/Transcripts/Minister
We can see that those countries where people speaks dialect like
Hong Kong and Taiwan, their standard of mandarin and english is
quite bad, this is because they speak dialect.
Hong Kong mandarin standard is not good, Taiwan english standard
is poor.
