But I don’t need my uni friends following me on Twitter. Some of them already thinks of me as this city girl who refuses to speak in anything but English!
Not true. They just happened to catch me while I’m on it with my people.
I speak Malay just fine but I feel better typing in English (and speaking in it with the right people). I may not write well but that is not a reason to deter my love for it, no?
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I had this conversation with my room mate. It took every nerve in my body to not just repudiate her existence. She’s nice but what she asked me was kind of.. unbelievable.
“Kak, ‘both’ tu maksud dia apa?”
“Uhh.. ‘both’ tu macam berdua, kedua-duanya?”
I do hope that my eyes did not pop out that much because to be quite honest I was like "What the hell did you just ask me, girl!"
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Anyway, it won’t make any sense if I do try to translate what I explained to her but basically this is just the problem. Our race has this infinitesimal care towards their second language. I dunno whether it’s the culture here in my uni but the love is abysmal in the grammar closet. They’re kinda bad at it.
I told my room mate to read a lot and she really is working hard to improve herself.
The students from the rural area (the country-folks) understand English to some degree, but sometimes when it reached this kind of bad… I just don’t know what to say when they asked me on how to be good in English..
Well, good television and comics helped me a lot in my younger days. Now, I just read. (and watch TV)
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER YAY!