Instead they converse with their children in Mandarin or English, with the result that many children in Penang cannot speak Minnanhua. This has led to a serious thinning of the Minnanhua-speaking population and I am fearful that my mother tongue is in grave danger of disappearing entirely.
再加上有一些閩南人家長過份注重華語和英語，他們認為閩南語是老土、不優雅的語言，因此在家與孩子以華語或英語溝通，所以很多現代的檳城小孩都不會講閩南語了。這已嚴重造成了閩南語使用人數迅速凋零，也讓我意識到母語可能會消亡的危機。