It's hot in Singapore in October, but the windows of the department stores are all displaying fall and winter clothes anyway, and the red lanterns and the banners declaring "Study Chinese, Know Culture," which appear at this time every year as part of the Promoting Chinese Campaign, are swaying like the shadows of trees.
十月的新加坡依然炎熱，儘管百貨櫥窗的秋冬裝已經上市。樹影婆娑的街道旁飄揚著「學習華語，認識文化」的布條和紅紙燈籠，一年一度的華語運動又告展開。