Hokkien dialect
At the end of April 1824 Kidd sailed for the London Missionary Society to Madras, and on to Malacca, where he arrived in November. He took up the Hokkien dialect of Chinese under the Rev. David Collie. In the course of 1826 he published short tracts in Chinese, and the following year was appointed professor of Chinese in the Anglo-Chinese College of Malacca. From this time he took an active part in missionary work, preaching and writing.