Its been a long time since i write and talk in english. Its because all around me was just malay friends and malay officemates. So theres no opportunity to talk in english with them.

Since 1980, that was 27 years ago, when i left school, i did not talk to others using english language.I used malay language as a medium in comunicating. Usually when other people talk to me in english, i usually reply in malay. It si because i felt that my english is not as fluent anymore. When i try to comunicate with other using english language, i always feels that my grammar is kind of 'upside down' and some words just wont come out easily and fluently from my mouth. Those words just stuck in my mouth and wont come out properly.

I think its time for me to do some practice....may be its good for me if i buy English newspaper everyday and read loudly so that i can improve my English.

well....thats it for now....

Ooohhh.. i just love that topic title .. Well ... So inviting and freestyle ...

Sooooo !
27 years ??? Really ??? I mean .. really ... The last time you spoke English was twenty seven years ago ??? Or are you just being dramatic .. hihihihi.
Oh well then ... welcome back to speaking-englisch Captain... (dhuhhh!!)

[in Councillor-Ensign briefing mode]
Much has changed since you 'went away' 27 years ago Captain. Mutation has taken place and there has bred a variety of englisch language, both spoken and written. Authorities of planetary scale are also observing a new breed of humanoid of unknown genetic origin called Hanfoness who speak and write in Englisch (and Bahasa Malaysia) of their own, called Asomastic. Apparently this Asomastic language involves complex yet somewhat standard way of interpreting original Englisch pronunciation and spelling into a totally new, evolved and mind-boggling encryptionised language. There is also a low level breed of humanoid whose Englisch has evolved into a version merciless, brutal and fatal. Physically and psychologically pediatric-permanent, this weirdly deformed humanoid are known to constantly engage in oral warfare and use their Englisch solely as a weapon of assault.
De-brief, Captain

[end-mode]

You know, that reading aloud method... it could work. It worked for me. I once had to learn the American accent (known for its ridiculously thick R and T) in 1 week and i was forced by a certain coach to read aloud countless of texts the blonde-american-tv-anchorwoman way...!! And in doing that, try to 'store' the whole sentence in your head which means you have to read forward and faster than your mouth saying the words. But then again... i dont think you'd need this crappy tip from me do ya

in the kitchen, thinking .. choc muffin; should i or should i not ? hmmmm
Cik Bedah
Temerloh

added disclaimer at 3.41am:
due to unexpected PMly received inquiries of factual extract from the above Councillor-to-Captain Brief, please note that the Brief is a fictitious depiction of actual phenomenon.

cik bedah, u r very good in english...
are u a teacher?...
i like to read all the things that u write in english (in this forum)...

No sweetie Im not a teacher .... i dont really have the strength and patience to be one.
And thank you for the praise. My English isn't 'that' good too. I just noticed that i spelled the word English incorrectly up there EnglisCh... with a C. Hihihihihi. But i think i'll just leave it like that.

Yeehaaa!
Make sure you tell us how your 'comeback' is progressing.
And meanwhile ... tell us stuff... any stuff ... like ... did you not try to speak English with your officemates regardless of them being Malay ?? And how on earth did you come up with that name Yeeehaa!

Finally a topic thats chatty ...

By the way, i just found out that cooking oil should be stored in dark place! I saw it on Oprah minutes ago (this fact is added here assuming that yall not yet annoyed by me!!).

Choc muffins are devil!!
Cik Bedah
Temerloh

woww..cik bedah, you really rock in english and melodic in malay..

Wah. 27 years not speaking English can still post like this meh? You sure or not? 27 years? Though I can say your english is a wee bit dusty. Not rusty. But dusty. Donmai (<== How the Japanese says "Don't mind"). I think you'd do better in your next post. Like, telling us anything interesting about yourself, or...how your day went. Whatever. Also it helps to write in MS Words first, with the autocorrect and grammar check on.

abedahmatusin should be our moderator for English Corner. who agree with me ?

i'm agree with you.since he is very active and good in english,why not???

Me too. But "kak bedah" is a female. So, "he" is a she.

Dont bother about the grammar, we are in Malaysia, and most Malaysians speak Malaysian-english LOL

CIk bedah, temerloh...where?My folks home is there

At frirst i think this like Star Trek Kapten's Briefing.then i read
again a few time and i notice Hanfoness is People with Handphone
and asomastic language is SMS language.LOL very nice cikbedah so funny
SMS becoming a new mind bogling language truly.


wakakaka i think cikbedah very "nicely & politely" but "harshly" talk
about some people or someone in this forum who like to fight with other.LOL
Psycohlogically pediatric-permanent is "perangai kebudak budakan" right cikbedah?

I agree if cikbedah be our moderator for this section.
even though shes a verybusy person in russia now right cikbedah ?hehe

EDITED : WITH APOLOGY TO CIKBEDAH

no matter who are u we still like u wattt.LOL

cik"bedah" is the best

ps; ur brother Jensen is a nice man cik"bedah"

Hip hip for cikbedah
cik bedah life forever ..

Goody-molly....!!! American accent isn't an easy thing to practise..(IMHO)
what other difficult stuff in education world than having English literature as a major?? God bless me..

never say no to chocolate..


Two thumbs' up for cikbedah...

don't care about her background... care about what she could share with us.. as a malaysian people.

everyone got their own special, also with you voluted..

whatever, i'm very proud of abedahmatusin.. she must be our moderator here.

sorry about that(he)
because i think abedahmatusin is male(look by it name)

so 1 vote for cik bedah

thank you for the tip....i agree that it is the right way to improve pronunciation and of course it could makes one more fluent in the future.....what i should do is start practising...this tip reminds me the way I practice reading the Quran....maybe I will start practising next month....the 1st of september.....and see whether i can make it or not....

anybody are welcome to make comments regarding my grammar or my writing style....its ok with me...hehe..

well....its nice to write in english again and maybe in the future I will start talking in english....but actually, I used to read English articles while surfing the internet and read many articles at different kinds of websites.....I like surfing, but I seldom read the newspaper or English books....When people talks to me, I do understand what the say, and then I reply in Malay,except to foreigners....may be in two to three months time i will improve my English....

Last year, one of my officemate went to Intan, Jalan Ilmu, to take English course (public speaking, i guess)....he went there for three months....when he finished his course, he sometimes try comunicating in English with other officemates.....but it just wont work....everytime they/we try to talk in English with each other....it seems to be so funny....this friend of mine always start laughing first....then we just laugh with each other....and we tried to be serious sometime....it wont work either.... sometimes we had to recall the vocabs that we should use while speaking....hehe...

some of my officemates are good in English, and they can speak fluently....but they do not always speak English among themself....sometimes I heard them comunicating in English....but not that often....

that nickname of mine, it just came out spontaneously....i used it in another forum before....

hehehe.....it takes time for me to write the first posting....and becomes more slower when replying others posting.....i guess its harder when replying....replying is like answering exams question....maybe its because i had to think which words is the correct one for me to use.....Its different if I reply using Bahasa....fast and easy.....i m used to it....

I think, if i keep on writing and posting like this....maybe one day i will be improve my english,....for now, i m really slow....I should try installing MS Words and use it, just like you told me to....right now i dont have MS Words installed on my computer.....so i dont know whether my spelling or grammar is correct or not....hehehe....

nice to see that there are somebody whose having better knowledge among us.
actually, I do not believe that yeehaaa has not speaking for 27 years. maybe, just for a simple reason to start writing.
ehheheh... I'm also in process of improving my english. so please tell me if there is anything was posted wrongly and etc.

nice to know all of you.

actually, what i meant by not speaking english since 27 years ago is that....very seldom do I speak English...I just speak when I had to....and in situation that I just cannot resist....like when some foreigners asking me to show them how to go to places that they want to go....and thats maybe once in five or six years and happened coincidently....and maybe I spoke English once or twice in every two to three years....but as i wrote earlier....I like surfing and do read lot of articles especially about computer....

thats me....i did not speak english in my daily life....and my english pronunciation become worst year after year....

Yes well ... actually i sort of understood it when you said you have not spoken English for 27 years you meant "the full blown English"...hihihihihi
and i kind of love to overly dramatize my reactions .. like, the inclusion of excessive question marks that would make me sound like i was sssssoooo surprised reading people's posts!

I wish i could just speak English when i had to; like you did. But then in my situation if i were to do that, i wouldnt be talking much at all and people might think im supershy or a Carrie in the making!

By the way ... that suggestion of me becoming a moderator for this English section... i dont think thats a good idea. I mean... im totally flattered beyond recognition here and i thank yall so much for thinking so good of me but the truth is ...i cant I cant commit. I dont come in here often and in fact, this post im writing is about a week after the last one i posted. See ......
And besides, i think we kinda survived not 'killing' each other in this section without any official mod around didnt we ? Makes us a little bit more responsible in trying to be good boys and girls ....

Anyway.... i actually got into an acccident with a trailer today... my car was wrecked and the person next to me broke his legs and punctured his lung and dislocated both of his shoulder joints. His nose was shattered and his skull was dented in various places. He has not come out of his comma. His name is Sanders. And he is not a good person.





ok just kidding .....
too graphic right ???
i knoww ....

Cik Bedah
Temerloh....
p/s: just now, i actually sat on one of my luggage just to be able to lock it up... and this is not a joke.

Cik bedah...please be with us more often..i don't really mind if you're a moderator or not..i just want you to be here..

ppuhh...puhhh..puhhleeeeezzzzz
*imaizuki is begging..

i know you're busy...but i'm greedy

I agree! cikbedah u can try be with us more often pls

that acident did u realy kidding or maybe u hate that Sanders guy
very much u want him to acident like that ?
with all that lugagge u are travelling to where cikbedah ?
share ur story in traveling with us pls.i like to read it too.

cik bedah...cik bedah...we love u..haha =p

i jus been asked by my chinese classmate ...she want*(wanted =p) me to communicate with her in english after long time didnt practice*(practise) ....what a funny conversation we have at first..but after few days,we found that we were able to communite in this language although using broken one...practice make perfect...=p

voluted=Sanders??

i cannot speak english i was too afraid about making grammatical mistakes,

i learned mandarin but i still cant speak properly
i was too shy about articulating chinese words in front of people even though it was my chinese friend's 5 years old nephew ,

who speaks with a bunch of stutterings and stammerings and vocalizing unknown interjections.
thank you ailebiu

me too but if not we're not try we wouldnt know rightte..even peoples laugh at us because using broken english..

..think positive...its a part of learning process..=p







edited..thanks for reminding me slaughters

bro shanai already give us warning. do not even use short form.. just what you have done...

Just speak the english, dont mind if people laughing at our broken english, hey it isnt our native language, hence people should understand why we have broken english.Everybody makes mistakes, and from mistakes we will learn. I am studying Mandarin too, eventhough i cant speak it well, i try to speak it with my chinese friends whenever i can, i know my mandarin is bad, but i dont care.They should know that i am coming for it. Make the dictionary our new friends, it is really useful....

I AM LEARNING!

halo!



RLOF u got me on that!

then i read the P/S part "hemm sit on you luggage just to get it to close"...mannn are u packing ur whole closet in there! lol! T_______________T

Anyway I'm new to this part of forum and i notice that this is the only that thread that i can shot my puck into! lol if u know what i mean! lol!



Yeah..write like a true spokesmen(well at least that what i think lol!)
Anyway I can't agree more to what u have just wrote, and i've seen "other" part of this forum (well not this section of the forum anyway!?) that have and a mod and still thing was much worse then before!( at least there's no death report in that section yet if thing still not working out!! lol!)



dude...this remind me of the time when i was on the stage in front of my schoolmate and supposedly i was to deliver a poem at the end i end up making a stupid joke in front of my friend! lol!(wow that was one hell of a story that i can tell to my grandchildren and people next to my "grave" lol) and the worst part is eventually my MUET teacher open a can of "WOOP'ASS!!!"
And yeah i tried that imagination thing like in the movie, where 1 guy on the stage imagine that all the crowd a just a bunch of banana , and trust me on this thing do not turn up well,fyi that when the joke came up!
And i would prefer to call it my the time of "my" life...similar to the greenday song...well "ur" actually..

wow!! k then later guys!

Well i learned english by watching tvies.. when i was a kid .. i love to watched english sitcom or movie ..with translation of coz.. thats was the time i learned bit by bit .. starting with the actor yelling help! help! ..and the translation would be tolong!tolong! written under it.. As time passed by, now i manage to understand almost all the actor/actress were talking ..

Well watching english cartoons or movie do bring changes to us afterall.. thats is if we are trying to understand what they were talking by watching their body language or by the translation provided ..

Hokayy...
Finally i got some time to check out what have i been missing on in here for the past one week.
Hey yall

Letss seeee.....

Thank you! Though the KAK is a little hmmmm


Owh sweet But if i tell you, i'd have to 'kill' you! Hihihi. How are your folks ? Kissabunch for them.


The ever-so-sweet Mr Slaughters... thanks so much sir. Hihihihi.


Hihihihi.. this reminds me of those supercute kindergarden sweethearts! And i mean it in the best way Mmuahhh mmuahhh chocfullalovv to you sweetie...


You ever watched Ally McBeal where there were scenes in which bad stuff happened to some people she didnt really like, but it didnt really happen because it was all in her mind ? Kinda like that....


Yayy !!! Love you too! Kisses...


Hihihihi. I prefer sianide to car accident.


Owhh i learned English the hard way. I was 13. It was a new place. I did not know anyone at all, except for my grandmother. No friends. There were no friendly faces and many were unkind to me. I did not understand a word. I was not understood by and i was misunderstood a lot. And as a result, i muted myself. I had to listen hard, watch attentively and body language was such an important part of communication to me. It was like i had to learn to listen and speak all over again, like a baby. I dont like that memory. I wish noone and no kid would ever have to go trough that kind of experience. It was an unfortunate 'phase' of my life.
Nevertheless, i gained a lot of side skills from that particular 'phase' of my life. And it helped me a lot later on. It still does. I now happen to be a certified lip-reader....hihi

"No pain no gain". But does it have to be painful all the time ? Dhuhh.

Anywayyyyyy.... whatever happened to Yeehaaa ??

Cik Bedah
Temerloh....

halo,



WalauWei! lol! german! lol!



Lieber ein Ende mit Schmerzen als Schmerzen ohne Ende.

Better an end with pain than pain without end.

lol!

Learning should not involve pain unless pain is what a learner seeks.


Cik Bedah
Temerloh

do we need to open for Germany classes here ?

Amboiii..kena sindir pula saya.

Germany = negara
German = orang / bahasa

Tak apalah, nanti saya sunting semula kiriman sebelum ini sebelum lebih ramai yang 'sakit mata' ya ?

Nak ke forum lain dulu.

Cik Bedah
Temerloh.....

i agree if makcik bedah be our moderator in english forum
i love to read all her posting here.. very nice and friendly

Halo,



Ah'ha,
true true but pain also teach the person to remember righttt! Even so the person intention to learn with out seeking pain, the "problem" may come occur somehow!!

P/S : well...it all in Mr.Fate hand

Cik Bedah..you're back...I just thought I would die in a strange world that I've stepped into. From a distance it seems like a land of hopes but I guess it was merely my imagination. The turfs are black, the sun had never showed up and the aborigines are restless. They're lurking everywhere, waiting to hunt you and they will never kill you in an instant. Instead they would torture you until you're begging them to take away your life. Until then they will stab your heart with the strongest steel ever known to man..mercilessly. Your body then be still on a death pole, cherished by the restless with their loud voice. I don't belong to this dire land..I don't wanna be among the restless..as it seems like everything else fails, you have really come back Cik Bedah...



You said it was a new place, where were you before that, what happened to your family? I was mute when i was 9 for 2 years. Traumatized to exact.

Cik Bedah..you're travelling a lot..to many different places I would guess...and you can read lips..are you..oppss, hehe
I dunno where I'm going with this..hehehe..sorry (I must have been infected by the restless..)

And where is yeeehaa anyway...

This..is one fine monologue to start up a prime scene in a sci-fi animation... Thank you for welcoming me back in such an epic an elaborate 'logue sweetie..



Am i D&M ? Hihihi. No sweetie im not.I am physically well attributed. I muted myself voluntarily because i did not speak English, and because noone understood me..literally. It wasnt really a result of a trauma which in fact one that i was in at that time. So i thought (and was told), i better learn English fast or i would end up a Carrie...ya know like blowing up the whole school or the whole shire...setting people on fire and all! So..the only way i knew and i could do back then was to listen to people and watch them. Over time, while 'learning' the language, i also became attune to physical expressions, body language and lip reading which i later in recent age developed formally in a certain institution and had me certified (including sign language which happened to be a requirement for such certification).
I guess, when one is thrown into a totally foreign place, one picks up foreign element and adapts rather quickly. That amazing human survival instinct. Language for instance. I picked up the language in about 2 months...complete with a funny local accent!!. The fact that i was still young might have also played a part in speeding up the process.. ya know that creepy young-brain-is-a-sponge stuff...

Today...
This morning... i decided to head out for breakfast straight from jogging..which i never did before. Someone stopped me on the street. He said i looked familiar. I thought he was a scam or a perv but he dressed a little too nice to be one. Besides he looked like he was in a hurry to work which not a usual MO for a con. He didnt look familiar to me so i pretty much told him the contra, we smiled to each other and continued our ways. It was a cup of coffee later i realised that we have actually met though never talked... a few months ago...once...in a place i never thought i would even remember! Amazing how your brain works huh!

Cik Bedah
Temerloh

firstly, LOL at imazuki's words....so rythmic...but it is nice to see the otherside of creativity rather than just a plain boring daily usage of english .I've lost all of my skills to compose sentences like that, yeah..i've left academic english for 5 years already, and now speaking with people that like to make english as simple as possible, even the english native ones.Then learning 2 new foreign languages also contributing in massive destruction of my own english.

Keep the good talks continue.....

Cik Bedah, I didn't mean that you're d&m..ummm..you travel a lot, lip-reader, sign language, body language, fit as a fiddle..in my notty imagination, you have a preliminary qualities of becoming..err..James Bond hehehehe..Cik Bedah '008'




Yup, and amazing how fate can be too. I may sounds stupid if ask this but..what is MO?

Hihihihihi .. goddd .. thats funny.

MO = Modus Operandi ... Mode of Operation ... Method of Operation

Generally, MO means a certain close-to-definite way of making things, executing an event or an operation. In criminology, MO means the behavior pattern or method typical of how a criminal commits his/her crimes or when comitting a specific crime.
So .. one of the MOs for im-familiar-with-you-on-street con is quick double glance, hands holding paper or reading material. Whats unusual for that 'con' was his briefcase and hes dressed for a certain event/work.

Typical behavior during con-in-progress
1. constant eye contact..almost too confident.
2. relaxed face, smiley and low, semi-excited tone of voice.
3. body movement limited to hands maneuvre
4. conversation is dragged.

There you go...

Cik Bedah
Temerloh.....

shoot my activities have been discover; quick give me a paper bag!

wow..you're a very observant person Cik Bedah. But isn't that character is what people always do?

cikbedah can speak jerman also.suitable teacher for it.

yupp speak many language,sign language body language,travel a lot
we can call her Bedah Bond. hehe justjoking
jangan mara ok cikbedah ijust think we can learn very much
from u so maybe u can share to us ur expereince of life.
ur trauma is about what? where is new place and old place?
like unfinish story. ok please dont pm me with 'watikah teguran berbahasa klasik'
becaus i write like this ok cikbedah.hehe. i just curious.
what is D&M? can someone tell me

lip reading means can know what people saying without voice right ?
wah that is speciial skill.nice

ps- where is topic starter?

i am the one who got rating 7/10 for writing/reading and 1/10 for speaking in englisch. help me!!!

This is specific to the im-familiar-with-you-OnTheStreet con... but heyy ... not important

So hey yall
I guess i'll be answering some questions today huh... letss seeeeee....
D&M... is an abbrev. for Deaf And Mute. And yes, lip-reading is a way or method of knowing what a person is saying by studying or watching that person's lips/mouth articulation.

The trauma ? It was a terrible road accident.
Old place ? Non english-speaking place.
New place ? English-speaking place.
Lets just spare the details.

We havent seen Yeehaaa for quite some time now have we ?
Owh welll....

Cik Bedah
Temerloh...

wow. when was the last time i posted a reply in this forum? 3? 4 years? does time really fly that fast?

surprisingly my username still works, after all this time. i supposed i should thank shanai then, for not pruning the database of inactive members like me

i meant to find a technical solution, but ended up posting in the english forum, how's that for being deviated.

it's 3am, my brain is tired and i need my beauty sleep

good luck and good night everyone

i dont suppose to hijack this thread with off-topic post, but welcome back muddy78