By Poyi (Natalie) Leung
He is probably one of the very few, or even the only one in Macau, who knows as many as seven foreign languages, besides his mother tongues Indonesian and Chinese.
Gary Ngai Mei Cheong, who is of Chinese origin but was born in Indonesia in 1932, learned his first foreign language, Dutch, when he went to a Dutch primary school. After finishing high school in Jakarta where he also learned English, French and German, he went to Beijing in 1950 to continue higher education at the People’s University majoring in Chinese modern history, philosophy, economics and international relations. … continue reading this entry.
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