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visiting my nanny on Monday... kinda made me realise how lucky i was that the guy's parents speak Mandarin... and not dialect... hearing myself grapple with Hokkien... having them mixed up with the Malay i use occasionally back home with my domestic help... is atrocious really... but it's exactly Peranakan... mixing bits and pieces of Malay and Hokkien into a blend we call our own... still utterly funny... and not very good if i'm trying to impress... it's been fun understanding more languages and dialects than i can speak really... yesterdae at PA... the staff spoke in Malay probably thinking i wont understand... i am Peranakan la... though he was so soft over the phone i couldnt really make out the entire conversation... i was only eavesdropping because it had something to do with our request to use the buoys... like my dad said... it's better to keep quiet about ur language abilities too... it's not much of an ability anyway... half the time i can understand little bit but i cant speak... but a dialect i would really really like to learn is Cantonese... so cool... so nice-sounding... i think i developed a crush on Sam coz he can speak Canto... plus the fact that he got 6pack... kidding la... okok... i'll go back to fearing 5pm... when my results come out... ----Stef stopped rambling at 14:33 --Link to Post |
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