My Lifelong Challenge: Singapore's Bilingual Journey (2011) by Lee Kuan Yew documents the 50-year evolution of Singapore's language policy, balancing English as a working language with mother tongue preservation for cultural identity. The book highlights the pragmatic necessity of the policy for national survival and features personal reflections from Lee and various Singaporeans on the challenges of this linguistic transition. For more details, visit Epigram Bookshop
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By the time I entered Primary One at the age of six, Singapore’s bilingual policy was already a decade old. The message was clear: English for the world, Mother Tongue for the soul. In theory, it was a beautiful marriage. In practice, inside my seven-year-old skull, it was a civil war. My classroom was a jungle of phonics and tones
My classroom was a jungle of phonics and tones. English was logical, linear, a friend I could hold hands with. The cat sits on the mat. Simple. Predictable. My English teacher, Mrs. Pereira, smelled of chalk and lavender. She smiled when I read aloud. Daily habits (short routines for listening
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