“讲华语？我也可以！” 是今年讲华语运动的标语。昨天推出今年运动的标语以及纪念了讲华语运动40周年。
新加坡多年来的进展，不容忽视双语的贡献。中国的崛起更意味着华语的重要性。如今，我们已渐渐失去双语的优势。很多年轻人都习惯讲英语，包括在家里。他们虽然听得懂华语，但不一定能用流利的华语沟通。
其实我们学母语不只是为了打拼未来，也是为了了解我们的根和文化。掌握华语能为我们对传统文化，习俗，和历史的了解开一扇窗。我希望大家能多用华语，多听，多写，多讲，让我们的下一代也能享受双语的好处。
点击至官方网站观赏我的演讲：https://youtu.be/rwaXgdbZbdk
– 李显龙
Five foot way or five-legged chicken? This was one of the amusing puns featured at a fun performance at last night’s Speak Mandarin Campaign 40th anniversary celebrations. The many similar sounding Mandarin characters make it ideal for any number of homophonic puns. It’s one of the fun and interesting aspects of learning Mandarin.
The Speak Mandarin Campaign has done much to encourage the use of Mandarin over the last 40 years. But in today’s English-speaking society, many Chinese families (Malays and Indians too) use English as their main language at home. So although most young Chinese Singaporeans can understand and speak Mandarin, they are not always fluent. We are losing our bilingual competitive edge.
The Speak Mandarin Campaign must respond to this. I encourage Singaporeans to maintain Singapore’s bilingual advantage. We have to make the effort to use Mandarin in our daily lives, keep it alive and preserve the uniqueness of Singaporean Mandarin.
You can watch my speech (in Mandarin :)) here: https://youtu.be/rwaXgdbZbdk
– LHL
