You see, my mother, who studied Malay instead of Chinese when she was younger, used to make me write out the English pronunciations of Chinese words I had learnt when I was in primary one and two.

• 我妈妈年轻时，学的是马来文而不是华文。在我读小一和小二的时候，她时常要我用英文，写出我所学的中文的发音。