I feel that mother tongue is still vital in Singapore as we cannot just depend on English to communicate to people. In order to build up the knowledge for their language for future use, students are being taught their mother tongue subjects and they have to take their monther tongue exam paper during PSLE to test their understanding level of their own language. Moreover, quite a number of students rely on mother tongue to help them score better.
Increasing number of people in Singapore are using English to communicate with each other. This in turn, neglects the use of mother tongue. As chinese, we should learn how to speak our own language. It would be a disgrace if we do not even know how to speak or write our own language. We should also know our language well so as to communicate with our grandparents or parents who may only have chinese as a communcation language.