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Wednesday, February 13, 1974
On the qualification of Interpreters/Translators, he said they
would be trained in Mandarin and other spoken Chinese dialects; the use
of Chinese as the medium of teaching in schools was being studied and
considered as a separate issue.
He stressed that the government was determined to use the
two languages for communication in the most effective way that could
be done.
"I do not believe anyone nowadays finds himself seriously
inconvenienced in his communication with the government if he has a
reasonable command of Chinese or English," he said.
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