Helena Leong

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From the above article, i think that MOE should not reduce the weightage of Mother Tongue Language (MTL)and should just remain the same. Most children these days speak English at home and with their friends but that does not mean that they should forget about learning the MTL and thinking it is a difficult subject.
MTL teachers these days even think of a lot of interesting ways to teach MTL to the primary 1 students from the beginning of their primary education so that the students will be interested in learning MTL.
English is an international language but Chinese is important as well as we are Chinese, it will be a laughing stock if we Chinese do not know how to speak Chinese. Just like what Prime Minster Lee had mentioned, being bilingual, will definitely benefit in the future. I hope that parents will understand the importance of the two languages.