those who when to sjk definitely will be mastering 3 languages.

writing and speaking included.

i have been learning arabic as well..

we're at first pioneer in many thing, even in politics
thn years later...we're going the opposite direction

we're not really bilingual today anymore
in fact many type-M and type-C can't even speak their mother tongue anymore

This post has been edited by MR_alien: May 28 2025, 08:40 AM

Malaysians even if you're b40 you have access to be bilingual. Minimum you should know english and malay.

If you cina and your parents send you to SRJKC then you should know cina melei england.

If children cannot speak their mother tongue, it is not necessarily a systemic issue, it is more deeply rooted in family upbringing.

If parents themselves do not communicate with their children in their native language and even if the children learn it in school, how can they truly practice and internalize it? Language thrives through daily use and immersion. Without consistent reinforcement at home, the ability to speak it naturally fades.

At the end of the day, the home environment is the most crucial factor. It is the parents and the family who shape a child's linguistic foundation and cultural identity.

In our case, the environment allows us to speak Bahasa Melayu, when we interact with people outside when buying things, but these so-called banana refuse to use it. Be it M or C. Semua acah acah bagus je.

they literally have "Malay Language" subject.

ayam lived in aussie for more than half decade liaoo...even australian matriculation got this subject..kek

yup, it's more toward family issue at this point
we have the same problem as SG...since small only speak english
so now, type M or C or I can't speak their mother tongue....only english

all start from small. even the biggest country started from a small group of people.
and you got one thing wrong, i talk shit about a group of people, not the country i live in. i love malaysia more than ever BUT i feel sad for malaysia considering the birthrate of certain group of people

Many of those ketuanan keep saying only MY has multi language school, but they failed to really see that multi language schools is prevalent everywhere. Only in their selective mind that they choose to ignore this.

Even in China they are pushing people to learn other languages like Bahasa, etc.

The argument it is private funded or gov funded is pointless as the objective is still the same.

This is common here also. Many Malays sending their kids to SRJKC.

Nanti the conservative party (LNP) and some 'naughty' ppl in the Oz gov will say those school mandarin program kena infiltrated by CCP indirectly via NGO that funded by CCP.

I call bs. people say bilingual like its a either you are or not condition. bilingualism is a spectrum. just because you can read a few words in english or malay (helps that they both use latin script) and utter a few sentences does not make you functionally bilingual. even in cosmopolitan KV we have islands of people who are effectively monolingual. even worse outside.

those who say oh sjkc kids all can speak 3 languages no problem are either banana who never wented there or were in the upper grades / smarter kids class. there is a reason Singapore stream their kids into who can take higher Chinese while the rest learn nerf chinese.

those who say "oh look at european countries they all learn multiple languages" failed to consider that they are really learning dialects of the same latin language (like we don't consider ppl here who know cantonese hokkien and mandarin truly multilingual). far fewer would be multilingual if they had to learn separate language families.