One in five Chinese Singaporeans now speak non-Mandarin Chinese at home, compared with almost 80% 30 years ago.

如今每五个华人家庭中只有一个在家中使用地方话（非普通话），而30年前这一数字是逼近80%。

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Firstly, understand that most Chinese Singaporeans were immigrants from China. Some came for a better life and many other reasons, they settled down here.

首先，你要明白大多数的华裔新加坡人都是来自中国的移民。为了享受更好的生活或是为了其他的理由。他们定居在此。

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To transmit Chinese culture and the Chinese language effectively to successive generations of Chinese Singaporeans, we need a Chinese intellectual and cultural elite.

中国文化和语言来有效地历代新加坡华人，我们需要华文知识分子与文化精英。

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And at a seminar in Mandarin in July, Tang reportedly noted that 80% of Chinese Singaporeans speak Mandarin.

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In other words, the size of each successive generation of Chinese Singaporeans will halve in the next 18 to 20 years.

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The local population excluding expatriates and other foreign nationals form about two-thirds of its 5 odd million population, with Chinese-Singaporeans making up about 75% of these, followed by Malay-Singaporeans with 15%, Indian-Singaporeans about 9% and rest comprising various ethnic backgrounds.

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