I COULDN’T agree more that English proficiency should be enhanced and multilingualism be encouraged, as stated in the front page story in Sunday Star (“‘An asset to be a multilinguist’”, April 3; online at bit.ly/star_languages).
As a member of Gen-X who was born in 1967 and raised in a Mandarin-speaking family, my primary and secondary education was in vernacular schools where I was fortunate enough to be exposed to a learning environment offering three languages: Bahasa Malaysia, English and Chinese.
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