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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:01 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   Updated this article with an extra para on the #Malaysian school system & realise how confusing it is. I speak 4 languages only because I had the luck of growing up in certain areas & studying in schools where Malay, English and Chinese are used often. These days, it's not unusual to find graduates who can only speak ONE language. In #Malaysia, this can be limiting, especially if you cannot speak Bahasa Malaysia, the national language.

   #Languages #Mandarin

   https://elizabethtai.com/2024/01/02/why-i-am-learning-mandarin-in-2024/

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     @liztai@hachyderm.io and not forgetting the quality range of national schools... And location. So some who attend national schools end up mostly Malay + Chinese speaking, some end up English + Chinese, some English and cannot Malay, cannot Chinese

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:16 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @geraineon no wonder we end up as confused adults lol

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     Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:17 JST Neon (fandom)

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     @liztai@hachyderm.io I feel like it's English educated is also not quite the correct way of describing also because there's a difference between mostly Malay-medium national schools and the private/international schools... Haha. But yeah our system a bit rojak

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     Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:20 JST Neon (fandom)

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     @liztai@hachyderm.io my school had a lot of old teachers who taught when the medium of instruction was English so half of them ended up teaching subjects that were supposed to be taught in Malay half in English anyway

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:23 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @geraineon I swear, if not for the accident of growing up in Penang and JB, and then studying in a Convent school in JB and then in a very urban top tier PJ school, I wouldn't even have my English mastery, let alone be fluent in Malay and Chinese. If I had grown up in a village... And went to a Chinese school, pretty sure I would be Chinese and Malay speaking only.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:26 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @geraineon Ps even if u can speak Hokkien they will complain your Hokkien not "chim" enough. Can win with the elders lol

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:27 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @geraineon this is so Chinese. My mum not only wanted PJ Bubble she wanted convent cos proper Nyonya ladies go to convent schools 😂 But tak dapat so till this day she grumble that I couldn't get into Assunta 😂

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     Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:29 JST Neon (fandom)

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     @liztai@hachyderm.io my father wanted me to be educated in the pj bubble so it wasn't really an accident ahaha. Die die must register in a PJ school. Cantonese was family + location. I wish I can speak Hokkien though. I couldn't communicate with my grandparents in my father's side till the end

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:31 JST clacke

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     @liztai @geraineon What's PJ?
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     Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:33 JST Neon (fandom)

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     @liztai@hachyderm.io can't win fml
     
     I scared I go back they complain my cantonese sounds off

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:33 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @geraineon for sure one. Embarrassing the young during cny is a 3000 yo Chinese tradition lol

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:36 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @geraineon I like rojak. Especially the oasembur one 😂 #random
     But imagine trying to explain why we have multiple English accents to a foreigner lol

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     Neon (fandom) (geraineon@sakurajima.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:37 JST Neon (fandom)

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     @liztai@hachyderm.io in short: rojak

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:41 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @clacke Petaling Jaya, one of the biggest & most developed cities in Malaysia. @geraineon

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:41 JST clacke

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     en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rojak

     > (cooking) A traditional Malaysian and Indonesian salad of mixed raw fruits and vegetables served with a sauce.
     > (Malaysia, slang) A person of mixed ethnic heritage.

     
     Haha, I find that quite lovely.

     @liztai @geraineon

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 14:38:55 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     @clacke "rojak" is also a word we used for "chaos" lol

     @geraineon

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