Malaysians are some of the friendliest people I have ever met, Indian, Chinese, Malay, all of them. Most people speak English. I think they find our struggles with language a bit amusing since they all speak at least two, and often three languages.

Bahasa Malaysia is supposed to be pretty easy to learn. There are no tenses, for one thing. It has a lot of words derived from English, like restoran, which helps. Maybe it would help you feel less nervous about the move if you got some language CDs and started to learn Bahasa. It would give you a project to work on, and a feeling of being prepared.

It's the same language as Bahasa Indonesia, except the Indonesians have a lot of Dutch words in their language, so it is a useful thing to know.