a student would ask her teacher, "miss.. how can i improve my english?" and her teacher would answer "well, you know the answer to that my dear. practice makes perfect".
if i were the student i would say "yeah right!!!"
ideally speaking, practising your english IN an english speaking country would be the ultimate solution to improve you english. at least i would think that way, but what if.. you are in an english speaking country, yet everyone around you speaks your native language... well ladies and gentlemen,say bye-bye to your english.
this is exactly how i feel, before i go into details, this post is not meant to discourage anyone or any instituion, it's just a mere frustration of mine, i think it's that time of the month that i get cranky over stupid things.
back to my explanation, it;s been a month living in an english speaking country, yet i just realized that i am probably only using 20 percent of my english-speaking ability. now, why is that?
first and foremost, im not teaching english anymore, goodbye to at least 4 hours of speaking english a day.
secondly, im around people that speak english, yet they all dont use it or only listen to people speak english and reply in bahasa...
ARGHHHHH!!!!
if this is how it's gonna be from now on, then i dont think i will come back to my home country with an OZ accent. moreover, an OZ friend hehehe. cant believe at the number of my people in this city alone. gosh... hehhe.. the weather sure feels like another country, yet, im still living my old life, even less..
dont really know what to do with it, especially because i found new, cool, exciting acquaintances hehhe.. hopefully this will change. most of my friends join clubs and english society to gain a better practice in english when we are in INDO yet.. once we got here, we just switch back to our native language. huh? is this a pattern? people basically want to speak a language that is not commonly used in a country? so that people wont understand if we're talking about them? or simply we dont feel comfortable about our english profieciency?
enlight me please??
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ahh... now u know how i felt when i was in KL, when everybody is speaking in "Malaylish" and i was trying so hard to speak in proper english but they couldnt understand me. So.. i didnt have much choice than speaking their english so i can communicate!
moreover..not much indonesians in KL who can speak good english. they are speaking in "malaylish" or "indolish" that makes me wonder why, cuz some of them are master degree students.
I myself sometime confused if i have to speak english with a malay friend and tend to speak very bad english. But i dont have much problems if i speak english to european students haha. Am i being picky? =p
Owell... it's ok laa as far as u can understand each other. Ya meh? hahaha
miz u ci!!
honestly, it really depends on the group you opt to hang out with. my only rationale is that one would naturally feel closer to home chilling with people of the same race or nationality and thereby, sharing a bond via communicating using the same language.
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