About learning the language.
Marhaini is our teacher in the Malay class. She is a very nice lady. We called her Mar. I was always late for the class, so I got to know her name until yesterday. Mar always smiles. But once in a while during the class, she gave us problems. “Please tell me how to say…
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…
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…
Learnt Malay number today.
From Chinadaily.com Original Link The sign just wants to tell people “Water Hazard!” But they made a word by word translation. 🙂 As the Olympics 2008 is approaching, China Daily launched the Clean up Beijing’s Enlish Sign. Its slogan is Use Accurate English to Welcome the Olympics. You can have a look at its official…