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Dear You director’s Back To Love is the next Teochew film to get a Singapore cinema release

Back To Love stars (from left) Zhong Shaoxian, Zheng Runqi and Lu Shan.

In the age of AI, some in China wonder if learning English is worth the trouble

Since the late 1970s, China has embraced teaching English as crucial to its efforts to open up to the rest of the world.

The sound of an identity: What makes the Singaporean accent unique?

Confusing ‘mum’ for ‘horse’: New book helps Chinese-language teachers tackle common errors by pupils

The book was launched on Sept 8 at the Singapore Centre for Chinese Language’s eighth international conference on teaching and learning Chinese.

‘Unlock your DNA’: More young S’poreans taking up dialect classes

Eldred Wee exposing his son Eden to Hainanese language and culture at the Hainan Business Chamber.

If we want our mother tongues to live, we need reasons to use them

ln Singapore, English became the language of academic advancement, social mobility and economic opportunity, says the writer.

Actor Mel Gibson apologises after mocking sign language interpreter onstage

Mel Gibson said there had not been “intended maliciousness” behind his behaviour.

Letter from Chennai

Tamil Nadu’s new chief minister says it’s time for plain speaking and everyday Tamil is what’s needed

Tamil Nadu’s new chief minister Joseph Vijay, speaks everyday Tamil unlike the formal literary Tamil used by the Dravidian parties that ruled the southern Indian state for six decades.

The post-Speak Mandarin question the Dear You saga has raised

The limited release of Teochew-language film Dear You reignited debate over the longstanding restriction on dialect films.

Air Canada taps new CEO to replace chief who couldn’t speak French

Anko van der Werff

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