House Minority Leader and 4Ps Party-list Rep. Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan wants the Mandarin language be promoted in all school levels in the country, if only to help improve Filipinos’ competitiveness in the international labor market.
“If we are going to continue to rely on the export of labor to help drive our economic growth, we might as well equip our future workers with Mandarin and other foreign language skills to further build up their competitiveness,” Libanan said in a statement Sunday, Feb. 12.
Libanan said the Mandarin language skills would enable the country’s future workers to capture new lucrative labor markets in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Libanan also reckoned that elementary and high schools should encourage the creation of Mandarin language student clubs along with English clubs. “We already have many young learners from Filipino-Chinese families that speak Mandarin. They can help put up Mandarin clubs in their schools.”
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