Everyone in my family got sent to an English School too
The joke is that my husband speaks better mandarin then my
relatives 
My family is kinda mixed up I think. Technically speaking we are
Peranakan, but we don't speak Malay or practise their customs
though we do cook Peranakan food at home. It's a hybrid of
Chinese/Peranakan Practices.
My parents learnt Mandarin along with my brother and I when we were
studying
