Among ourselves, we spoke Dutch, which is the official language in Surinam, but to my parents we had to speak Chinese, of course. They did very well obliging us to speak Chinese, since there are overseas-born Chinese who blame their parents for not having taught them Chinese.
父母親從來就不是忘本的人，眼看著許多不諳華語的華裔子弟在成長後不能諒解父母沒有讓他們接受華文教育，父母親更是兢兢業業，一點兒不敢懈怠地鞭策著我們學習中文。