【Economist】Banyan: Mandarins for Mandarin

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中文导读 为了提升国家的全球竞争力，新加坡大力推行英语，同时为了塑造华人身份，争取中国对外开放的红利，新加坡开展“华语运动”，提倡使用普通话。但移民新加坡的华人原籍大多属于中国南方省份，母语与中国官方以北方方言为基础的普通话相距较大，导致新加坡的语言出现代际分离。什么才是新加坡真正的母语？ Whatever happened to Singapore’s real mother tongues? WHEN SANDY, a young Chinese Singaporean, learned that her grandmother was terminally ill, she signed up for a workshop in the Hokkien language run by LearnDialect.sg, a charity founded to help Singaporeans communicate with the city-state’s older Chinese residents—including within their own families. Sandy is fluent in English and Mandarin, the official “mother tongue” of Chinese Singaporeans ………………………………