04
October
2017
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20:40
Asia/Singapore

Language of the Heart

NUS undergraduates from the Department of Pharmacy at NUS Faculty of Science are learning dialects to communicate better with elderly patients through a four-week course organised by NUS students and teachers from Viriya Community Services. The student volunteers found that residents of Telok Blangah with medical problems opened up more when they communicated in Hokkien or Cantonese, compared to Mandarin.