It has long been the unfortunate case that, because of the media's failure to present any Minannhua programs and the lack of Chinese dialect classes at school, so much has been forgotten that people are forced to turn to English or Mandarin when expressing even the simplest phrases in Minnanhua.
長期以來，大馬的電子媒體沒有閩南語的廣播節目，學校亦沒有方言學習班，形成很多簡單的閩南語詞彙逐漸被遺忘而必須以華語或英語來代替的窘境。