Original sentence: This French dialect was influenced by Khmer and Chinese spoken variants, and was spoken by children of married French men and Khmer or ethnic Chinese women.To make the local inhabitants — especially Khmer and Chinese — understand with the French, they taught French to the locals, although the locals taught them their own language and even some Chinese spoken variants, being Teochew and Cantonese
Edited sentence: This French dialect was influenced by Khmer and Chinese dialects, and was spoken by children of married French men and Khmer or ethnic Chinese women.To make the local inhabitants — especially Khmer and Chinese — understand with the French, they taught French to the locals, although the locals taught them their own language and even some Chinese dialects, being Teochew and Cantonese