I totally agree with the statement by Lee Kuan Yew. Learning Mandarin and English is mandatory but it has to be from your early days not in adult life. We tend to have this memory 'block' when learning at older age.
"...because I don't use it so much, therefore it gets disused and there's language loss. Then I have to revive it. It's a terrible problem because learning it in adult life, it hasn't got the same roots in your memory."
Lee Kuan Yew
"...because I don't use it so much, therefore it gets disused and there's language loss. Then I have to revive it. It's a terrible problem because learning it in adult life, it hasn't got the same roots in your memory."
Lee Kuan Yew