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Apa Khabar from Malaysia

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georgelimsk
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Malaysia
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18 August 2011 at 7:11am | IP Logged 
i am from malaysia. some intro-s for my home country. malaysia has 3 major races- malay, chinese and indian. official language is malay. i am a chinese, my mother tongue is Hokkien,dialect similar to Taiwan, or Fujian dialect. i speak fluent Chinese-Mandarin, English and Malay... and 2 dialect, Hokkien and Cantonese (Hong Kong dialect). i have studied japanese for 2 years (JLPT4), Korean 1 year and German 4 years (b2)
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prz_
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18 August 2011 at 12:13pm | IP Logged 
Wow! Lucky you. You know, I've always wanted to be bilingual, especially that I live close to the Ukrainian border; unfortunately I had no chance for that.
So, what are your current language plans?
georgelimsk wrote:
i have studied japanese for 2 years

Have you passed an official exam?
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georgelimsk
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19 August 2011 at 2:46am | IP Logged 
yes, i had JLPT4...current just improving my German n japs. we have japanese NHK and korean KBS on our satelite TV.

my town is just 2 hours from thailand. but i dont understand at all.

these are the languages available in malaysia

malay
english
chinese mandarin

dialects
chinese cantonese (hong kong)
chinese hokkien (taiwan)
chinese hakka
chinese foochow
chinese teochew (my ethnicity)
chinese hainanese
indian tamil (majority of the indians in malaysia)
indian hindi
indian bengali

children are taught English and malay at school. if u r indian or chinese. u get to speak 3 languages, u like it or not.


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