In a multiethnic country such as Malaysia, the Chinese language has been a burden in the lives of the Malaysian Chinese. But today, in the twentieth century, China's language has given her descendents a world of their own.
在馬來西亞這樣一個多種族的國家中，鍾情母語﹘﹘華文，曾是大馬華人生命中的負擔；但在廿世紀的今天，華文卻為她的族裔帶來另一番新天地。