| 1 | Chinese and Indians form the bulk of the Asian scientists. | |
| 2 | If our mothers --- who are Chinese ---do not speak Mandarin, it will be difficult to regard Chinese language to be the mother tongue of these people. | |
| 3 | Many Chinese undergraduates still find reading the Lianhe Zaobao difficult. | |
| 4 | This explains why the government strongly supports the annual Chinese Cultural Festival. | |
| 5 | Leaving out the dialect, Chinese Singaporeans are supposed to use Mandarin "together with English". |