#its funny cuz if you are a Malaysian chinese growing up there you basically can speak three languages because of our education system

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Sometimes im reminded that Malaysian tend to have like the habit of switching up languages with no big issues and forgot that not everyone can do that

I went to the local food market, the type that is out in the open with several stalls all placed together closely and its crowded and stuff right

So I talk to my brother and sister in English, Mandarin + Cantonese to my mom and dad. If we're ordering food from the aunty uncle, we either use hokkien / fujian or Malay (depending the race of the seller)

There was a neighbouring customer who were white(think they were from America judging from the bag and general mannerism) that started talking to my dad and he was just saying how insane we sounded switching languages around HAHA

#its funny cuz if you are a Malaysian chinese growing up there you basically can speak three languages because of our education system #Malay English and Mandarin #if you're Malaysian Indian then bonus add Tamil into the mix #and /then/ chinese have dialects like #Cantonese Hakka Teochew Hainanese etc #we get so used to mixing up our languages that we just kind of forgot that not everyone does it #i think maybe some of yall have heard “Chinglish or Manglish” from Singapore which basically means using mandarin + english together #哇那个天气今天热到cannot tahan ah walao #translation: the weather is so hot that i can't stand it omg! #that was mandarin + english + malay in one sentence #yep #gummmyspeaks