今天终于可以睡个懒觉了。直到日上三竿还懒洋洋地摊在床上，有机会能多迷糊一下真的很舒服。
突然听到康康在客厅里叫喊，一个字一个字的叫。我清醒了一些，仔细听听，哈！原来他在唱歌：“月亮啊，月亮啊，我爱你。来，来，来，请你从天上下来，…”这首是他爷爷经常给他唱的催眠曲。
几个星期前康康已经能够哼上几句歌。父亲听到他在哼这首歌，大为开心。跟刚好过来小住几天的姑母叙起旧来。说这首歌是他小学一年级学的，当我出生后就用作催眠曲哄我睡觉，现在又用在康康身上了。父亲，母亲，姑母都是上的同一间小学，都会唱这首歌。谈起来，忆苦思甜，感概万千。
这一次康康唱得很清楚，更有韵味。我想着，要康康爷爷听到了，一定笑得合不拢嘴。
“小弟弟，小妹妹，我不能够下来…”
我耐着性子等他唱完。下床推门一看，只见我们的康康在客厅中央，坐在他的小马桶上，摇头晃脑地在叫着。见我出来，咧嘴对我一笑：“Daddy!“
乖乖，他把他爷爷的催眠曲用在了他大便的时候。
这首催眠曲成了他的“大便歌“！
I am seriously thinking of starting a systematic on-line Malay course now, because there are not many on the net. I just found one entry for Malay course in the Omniglot on-line language course list. Though I still have not had a schedule, I have a good name for it. 🙂
As for now, I continue post my class notes here.
We learnt days of the week yesterday. Here is the cross table:
| hari Ahad / hari Minggu |
Sunday |
| hari Isnin |
Monday |
| hari Selasa |
Tuesday |
| hari Rabu |
Wednesday |
| hari Khamis |
Thursday |
| hari Jumaat |
Friday |
| hari Sabtu |
Saturday |
Don’t be surprised that you find a people named Selasa in Malasia. Most possibly, she was born on Tuesday.
We learnt the months also. They are very similar to those in English. But some of them, such as April and Januari, have different pronunciations in Malay.
| Januari |
January |
| Februari |
February |
| Mac |
March |
| April |
April |
| Mei |
May |
| Jun |
June |
| Julai |
July |
| Ogos |
August |
| September |
September |
| Oktober |
October |
| November |
November |
| Disember |
December |
Other things we learnt:
Sudah makan?
Have you eaten?
5112
Lima ribu satu ratus sebelas
312968
Tiga ratus dua belas ribu semilan ratus enum puluh lapan
9432801
Semilan juta empt ratus tiga puluh dua ribu lapant ratus satu
Kuah lebih
More soup
Umur
Age
Datuk
Grandfather
Tepat
Exactly
Tahun
Year
Hari ini
Today
Anak
Child
Dalam
In
Kereta
Car
Ini
This / These
Hari ini
Today
Itu
That /Those
Ibu/ama
Mother
Membeli
Buy
Berat
Heavy
Berat badannya
Weight
Dia
He/She
Memandu
drive
Sejauh
Distance of
Rumah
House
Tingkak
Level/Floor
Terakhir
Last
Bapa
Father
Beri
Give
Hari
Day
Isnin
Monday
Hari ini hari apt?
What is the day today?
Hari ini hari Jumaat
Today is Friday.
Ialah
Is
Semalah
Yesterday
Semalah hari apa?
What is the day yesterday?
Esok
Tomorrow
Esok hari apa?
What is the day of tomorrow?
Nama
Name
I officially name my Malay class notes as Jili-guru today.
Jili is a name; guru means teacher in Malay. Jili-guru means teacher Jili. Just one extra, small thing. Jili-guru is 叽里咕噜 in Chinese. We Chinese use this term to describe a language which is hard to understand. For example, “他在说啥呀？叽里咕噜的.” That is, “What the hell is he talking? I get no clue!” Well, I hope my notes can help people understand Malay better, not to take it as 叽里咕噜 when listening to Malay.
We continued on number yesterday. One step further, we learnt ordinal numbers/postions. The rules for ordinal numbers in Malay is simple. Just add a “Ke” before the number, except the number 1. 1st in Malay is Pertama.
For example, 2 in Malay is “Dua.” So 2nd in Malay is “Kedua.” 8 in Malay is “Lapan.” So 8th in Malay is “Kelapan.”
I will make the matching table when I have time.
Other things I have learnt in this class:
Malay: Lihat muka surat 2
English: Look at page 2 (muka – face; surat-letter; muka surat – page)
tempat pertama – 1st place
tempat kedua -2nd place
Soalan – Question
Jawapan – Answer
Malay: Sila baca ayat ketiga
English: please read sentence number3
Baca – read
Malay: Pilih pasangan
English: Choose a partner
Buah is always sit before fruit in Malay. It is kind of modifier for fruit. If you want to say Fruit in general, that is Buah-buahan
Buah durian – Durian
Buah epal – Apple
Buah tembikai – Watermelon
Buah mangga – Mango
Awak – You
Berapa – How many/much
Harga – price
Ialah – it/they
Gula – sugar
Gula-gula – sweet (Noun)
Manis – sweet (adjective)
Ada – have
Pasang – pair
Pasang – to fix
Tangan – hand
Duit/wang – money
Malay: Berapa biji buah epal awak ada?
English: How many apples do you have?
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