English In The East: Part One

from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2012 · host BBC World Service

English has been the dominant global language for a century, but is it the language of the future in rising South East Asia? In the first of two documentary programmes Jennifer Pak visits Malaysia and Singapore, two countries where colonial ties to the English language are loosening.

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