No time frame for Maths and Science decision

Stvalentine, I like this story. It's good stuff.  I don't know much about Malaysia, their culture, language or history - but this story made me think about it for a few minutes and I realized that English is a very popular teaching language in many countries around the world, second only to Spanish (as there are more spanish speaking people in the world).  English, Spanish, and to some degree French are those languages that allow people to communicate better in countries they visit or choose to emigrate to for work.  I am in Canada and I wasforced to start learning French in the 10th grade (we have 12 grades in High School) because the government decided to make it a 2nd official language across Canada -- and this despite the fact that we only have one province (out of 10 - and 2 Territories) where people's first tongue is French (the Quebeceurs).  If you want to have any kind of federal government post in British Columbia where I live -- you much be bilingual.  It certainly makes a lot of sense in Quebec and Ontario, but in the Western Provinces it's kind or dumb.

Besides that, I found 'Spanish' (beginners level) much easier to learn than French, and learning Spanish was more useful to me as we in my family often went down to California and New Mexico and Mexico on our holidays when I was younger.  In fact, I really like certain parts of Californa and New Mexico (and their unique cuisine).