Can all of student speak english and malay?? Not hindi...
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I scored C5 for English in my final elementary school exam and that was the highest achievement I ever obtained for English. When I started working in my 22yo, I started to buy The Star newspaper on daily basis. In my 24, i was employed by small engineering firm that require English as the medium of communication in the office. Reaching 26, I was offered job in public service and internet boom saves my English from deteriorated. I was sometime assigned to brief foreign visitors and calls that made in English was passed straight to my desk by my staffs.
Although I have limited vocabularies and have no desire on using extraordinary words, also I tend not to reread my comment before posting it here to spare myself away from grammar nazi, my Singapore Tour Guide friend impressed with my spoken English by simple words replacement like substituting the word ‘lunch’ with ‘meal’. By then I realized that from across the causeway, the perception of Malaysian English proficiency for them is nothing but inferior-than-us.
In short, it doesn’t matter getting flagged here in Quora due to gramatical problem by those grammar police, as long as the message I sent was delivered with the confidence to speak up like a pro.
Meanwhile, it took me back to primary school English when dealing with locals in Seoul and today’s HK and as I have no intention to go for proficiency certification whatsoever, I convinced that the level of my English proficiency is adequate compare to Scandinavian tourist and it somehow fruitful.
And I’m more than happy that I can speak Malay without English mixed up like one can see on TV when a Malay being interviewed, and vice versa which for me, was a major earsore and a kind of inability to keep both language separated.
These grammar police can’t kill you. All you need to do is to ignore them and tell them, Malaysian that having ultra English eloquency without significant income made with the skill, is nothing but deuchebag.