Dialect in singapore

i do not see any problem in learning dialect, you can just pick it up, where as learning English & Mandarin will put pressure on young people because there are exam to pass. Mandarin is important, but i do not think you need to give up dialect just because you need to learn Mandarin. if you visit the wet market, you can see many older generation , man & woman, speaks Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese and some simple English, Mandarin, Malay etc, many of them cannot read! but no problem in communicating in dialect etc. our Young people should do much better, right?