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Learn to speak the dialects to keep cultural heritage alive

I RECENTLY saw a report titled “How to revive a 500-year-old dying language” on the BBC News website.

It was about a Singaporean university student, Kevin Martens Wong, who was taking laudable efforts to revitalise Kristang creole, the language of the Portuguese Eurasians in Malacca.

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Opinion , Letters; Language learning; Chinese dialects

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