Govt of Malaysia willing to send teachers abroad to teach BM

COPENHAGEN: The Government is willing to consider sending and training teachers to teach the Malay language to Malaysian children abroad, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.

Responding to a question at a dinner with the Malaysian community here on Sunday if the Government could help organise Malay language classes for Malaysian children abroad, Muhyiddin said it could be worked out since there was a request for it.

"Whether we can send teachers here, or you send somebody from here so that we can train them to teach the language when they return, is something we can work out," he said.

Muhyiddin, who is the Education Minister, added that Malaysians abroad could also conduct Malay language classes or tuitions, saying that Malay was not a difficult language to learn.

Malay language books and syllabus could be sent here to facilitate teaching, he said.

He said studies would be conducted to identify the number of Malaysian children abroad who needed to study the language and the cost involved.

Earlier in his speech, Muhyiddin urged Malaysians to continue strengthening their command of the national language irrespective of where they were.

He said that the Danish people, for instance, gave priority to their language although many of them had a good command of English. - Bernama