去年5月间,澳洲的一位乡亲陈林先生向第十一届国际潮团年会筹委会反映,不少海外潮人的子女后代不会说潮汕话,使老一辈海外潮人十分担忧。他建议“年会”把潮语的研究、推广问题列入议程,掀起一个学习潮语的热潮。陈先生的建议虽没有被接纳列入“年会” Last May, Mr. Chen Lin, a folks from Australia, reported to the Preparatory Committee for the 11th International Tidal Wave Annual Conference that many offspring of overseas infatuated children would not speak Chaozhou-Shantou words, Worry. He suggested that “Annual Meeting” put the research and promotion of the tide of language on the agenda and set off an upsurge of learning the tide. Although Mr Chan's proposal has not been accepted into the “Annual Meeting”