Fun Innovation
Leonard Lam Yong Heng Alumnus, Diploma in Visual Communication School of Design Growing up in a dialect-speaking family, Leonard noticed a language barrier between youths and the dialect-speaking elderly. Hence, he was inspired to revive Chinese dialects in Singapore. However, he knew that traditional methods wouldn�t cut it. �I wanted to create something fun, so I decided to use trading card games, which people are more receptive to playing.� Thus, he invented Xin Xin Dialect, a card game that teaches players Hokkien idioms and phrases, which earned him the 2014 Singapore Good Design Mark (SG Mark). Ironically, Leonard had faced a language problem � being Hakka, he was unfamiliar with Hokkien. To research on the language, he read books and visited a temple to understand the Hokkien culture. He also contacted a teacher from Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan (clan association) to teach him Hokkien. He said, �It�s amazing how this knowledge isn�t passed down to the younger generations.� Though...