{"id":6,"date":"2004-10-16T22:49:10","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T14:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=6"},"modified":"2005-09-16T17:44:46","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T09:44:46","slug":"english-as-the-language-of-the-home-in-spore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2004\/english-as-the-language-of-the-home-in-spore\/","title":{"rendered":"English as the language of the home in S&#8217;pore"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> The crucial social statistic to note is that a lot more Chinese households are using English for everyday communication. Education Ministry data show that in 1988, the families of 20 per cent of Chinese Primary 1 pupils spoke mainly English at home. The percentage has risen to 50 per cent. For such a short period, the increase has been startling. The presumption that the percentage will keep rising will be hard to disprove in a country which has English as the working language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/straitstimes.asia1.com.sg\/commentary\/story\/0,4386,278132,00.html\">source<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crucial social statistic to note is that a lot more Chinese households are using English for everyday communication. Education Ministry data show that in 1988, the families of 20 per cent of Chinese Primary 1 pupils spoke mainly English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2004\/english-as-the-language-of-the-home-in-spore\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}