Among the best ways to assimilate into new surroundings and its culture is to learn the language, and so Proton CEO Li Chunrong has initiated a Bahasa Melayu course for 20 Chinese expatriates at Proton, including the CEO himself.
The course began on April 14 this year, and 18 of the first batch of students from the Bahasa Melayu learning programme completed the first level of the language course.
According to Proton, students of this language course were required to undergo a trivia challenge and present a short speech in Bahasa Melayu before receiving their certificates. All showed remarkable progress for students who underwent just 60 hours of classroom sessions, said Proton.
Proton was also commended by Han Culture Centre Malaysia president Datuk Goh Hin San for being the first company to collaborate with Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) for running a Bahasa Melayu learning programme for expatriates, the Malaysian carmaker said.
The China connection arose from the Proton-Geely strategic partnership that was signed in June 2017, which was for Chinese group Zhejiang Geely (ZGH) to acquire a 49.9% stake in the Malaysian carmaker, which has also brought Chinese nationals into Proton’s ranks. Proton’s first SUV, the X70 was also its first product to emerge from the Proton-Geely tie-up, based on the Geely Boyue.
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an average mMlaysian chinese can speak at least 3 languages and multiple dialects, so these China chinese needs to catch up! haha
Foreign chinese dem proud of mastering Bahasa while local ones keep shouting about being rakyat but 65 years later still cannot even speak Bahasa much less write proper sentences. Malu apa rakyatku?
65 years later some still thinks the sky drops money.
budak cina/india dapat A+ dlm BM SPM, budak bumi dpt D, so budak bumi need go for BM lessons right?
Budak melayu dapat A+ dlm Cina SPM tapi budak cina blajar 11 taun bahasa Cina cakap bahasa Cina tapi tak mau ambik Cina SPM. Kemaluan besaq right???
Jangan tipu la. Google global IQ rank dan lihat IQ ape paling tinggi. Semua bangsa ada kekuatan masing masing tapi bangsa yang paling pandai di dunia adalah East Asian (kulit kuning). Malaysia untung ada ramai mereka ni. Unite and succeed. Jangan main fitnah dan tipu lagi. Kekuatan Melayu adalah budi bahasa yang membuat Malaysia cantik di pentas dunia. India bagus lawan kes di makhamah. Sama sama Malaysia baru boleh jadi nombor 1.
Celup King and Rakyat Malaysia are proven to be the same racist person with this comment. Words typed exactly the same way. Aku sendiri melayu tapi jgn la racist
Nowdays new generation chinese indian speak good malay already. The one that speak malay with deep chinese/tamil accent were already old. Most young non malays speak malay quite well now. Their english also less pelat.. Good job gaisss
Theres no need..to learn foreign language just own preference..not everyone want to learn malay
saudara chun, jangan guna tali sawat lagi, leceh nak ganti boss tak bagi cuti.
Lucky China saved our Game Over Proton. This shows that they are not lazy and even wanted to learn Bahasa Melayu just to improve Proton. This is unlike the Proton workers who are lazy and likes to drink tea, eat kuih lapis 10x.
More fake news but who cares since we can believe VW Group of Directors that has full trust in our hardworking & high quality work of Pekan DRB abams. If VW Group Directors were thinking what is best for buyers, and they setup in Pekan under the auspice of DRB-Hicom. Even their CEO grudgingly admitted our DRB-Hicom abams are more hardworking and producing better quality cars than their Wolfsburg abams, which they entrust with VW and even Porsche. If they want quality they come to us.
diam lah bodoh. lari bogel mana?
Haha not everyone interest in malay speak or what..to them chinese from china learn the course becoz this is a fresh language to them and willing to learn to help communicate
Next, Chinese Malaysian!
You should do a brain scan.
budak cina/india dpt A+ dlm BM SPM, budak bumi dpt D dlm BM SPM, who is the one that needs BM lessons here?
Terbalik lah, malaysian chinese. Bukan chinese malaysian. Ayaa u nie. Manyak telok larrr ..
Did they also announce their canteen got a new menu? or their toilet got a new roll of toilet paper?
DAP DAP DAP DAP ahaha
Now they probably can speak in the National Language better than Lim Kit Siang and Tommy Thomas.
mesti masa Geely nak beli proton, syarat kerajaan Malaysia letak di perjanjian “Bahasa Melayu speaking only”.
The inside story from an ex Proton dealer is that the new Chinese owners are mean spirited, only intent on seeing numbers and nothing else – pushing to make sales even when there is none. So called ‘clever’, ‘surviving’ dealers cheat the system by passing the buck to their subsidiaries.
all the anti commie now ball carrying supper commies from mainland. gov not imposing 2000%tax on commie car? Mainlanders can get national car status but not local malaysian. nationalcunts