Maybe because Malaysian society is separated into Chinese educated, English educated and Malay educated. It's like three different societies. English educated mostly don't understand mandarin, maybe know a little bit native dialects ie. Cantonese, Hokkien etc.
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Yeah. All my Malaysian friends are Chinese and they speak fluently putonghua/Cantonese and English with almost no accent, or neutral accent, which surprised me a lot.
They told me because they went to Chinese school in Malaysia 🇲🇾 and speak Cantonese with their parents.
Do you speak canto?
i went to public government schools and university. i can speak fluently in malay, english with no intermingling dialects
i can speak other languages too
Yes, I speak Cantonese with my family 😊
That's cool. It's an interesting language with rich culture
