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Documentary-maker Ong Kah Jing wrote a commentary in Mandarin for the Lianhe Zaobao newspaper, encouraging adults to learn Chinese.
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SINGAPORE – Documentary-maker Ong Kah Jing, 30, used to struggle with Chinese as a teenager.
Although he got a B in the subject at the Primary School Leaving Examination, his first Chinese test in Secondary 1 the following year marked the start of a discouraging trajectory. He scored an F9.
