Top PSLE student 2009 is Chinese national who had problems with English

This year's top PSLE student is Qiu Biqing, a Chinese national who had problems with English when she first came to Singapore. But she worked hard and scored well for PSLE. So those who have problems learning Chinese should quit complaining and look at this little girl, who showed that with hard work, it is not impossible to learn another language. And she even mentioned that she got better in English because one of her teachers was an ethnic Indian and didn't understand Mandarin, forcing her to use English to communicate with him. Things might have turned out differently if her teachers had tried using Chinese to teach her English (not that our English teachers would have been able to use Chinese to teach her English...)

It is hard work, not the easy way out, that allows one to become better at something.