語言學導論 Entries

     I have learned a few verbs in Malay this week, including “duduk” meaning “sit down”, “jual” meaning “sell”, “beli” meaning “buy”, “tolak” as “push” and “tarik” as “pull”. Since I was mostly learning nouns regarding food in the last week, I have especially looked up the verb for “eat” in Malay this week. It has turned out to be “makan”. Apart from that, I have learned to ask others about whether he or she wants to eat anything in Malay, which is “kamu makan apa?”. I feel more and more confident in learning Malay now because I can find different bits of help. It enables me to learn faster. Here is an interesting fact. Whenever I see Malaysian food or Malaysian nowadays, I think of the vocabularies or greetings sentences I have learned. It feels so good that the things I have learned can be connected and related to my daily life. Also, I am surprised that the result of this learning activity is becoming more and more prospering and positive. Honestly speaking, it ...

This week, I have learned how to say the names of different food in Malay. I once did a presentation regarding Malaysia with my friends. The part that I was responsible for is exactly the diverse types of food in Malaysia. When I was preparing for the presentation, I had encountered words like satay, laksa, nasi lemak, etc. Yet, honestly speaking, I did not have to go up on the stage and present so I did not really look for the pronunciations of these vocabularies. Fast forward to this week, I have been provided with an opportunity to learn to speak these vocabularies, which means memorizing them and understanding more about their spellings and pronunciations. It takes quite a bit of hard work to do so. I am still working on it. Meanwhile, I need to give thanks to my Malaysian classmate. No matter what time it is, during the time for practising in class or after school, as long as I need help with learning to speak these vocabularies, she is willing to help me out and teach me the m...

  It has been the first week that I have tried to learn Malay. I thought learning this language would be so complicated that I would find it even difficult to begin. Yet, with the help of Youtube channels and my Malaysian classmate, I was able to learn the basic greetings in Malay. The greetings include "good morning" as "selamat pagi", "good afternoon" as "selamat petang", "goodnight" as "selamat malam", "thank you" as "terima kasih", "sorry" as "minta maaf", "keep it up" as "semangat", "how are you" as "apa khabar" and "I am fine" as "khabar baik". Though Malay is a whole new language for me, I can still figure out some grammatical patterns by studying those sentences for greetings. I even felt like I am learning a brand new version of English. That might be based on the identical characters used and similar pronunciation. Af...