Assalamualaikum.....

This story has been shared by one of my friends and I would like to share it with you. Such a touching tale.



Love your siblings;

Once there lived two brothers who lost their parents at an early age. They
worked together on their family farm. Some years later, the elder married
and had a family with 2 children, while the other was still single. They
worked hard together in the day and at the end of each day they shared
their produce equally.

One day while the single brother was working in the fields, he thought to
himself, “It’s not right that we share equally everything. I’m alone and my
needs are simple. My brother has a big family. He needs much more.”

With that in mind he took a sack full of grains and slowly went to his
brothers barn and places the sack quietly. He did so every night.
Meanwhile, the married brother thought to himself, “It’s not right that we
share everything equally. After all, I’m married and I have my wife and
children to look after me in years to come.

My brother has no family and no one can take care of his future. He really
should have a bigger share.” So each night he took a bag of grain and put
it into his brothers barn quietly. This went on and both men were puzzled
for years because their grain never dwindled.

Then one night, on the way to each others barn, the two brothers
coincidentally met and they found out what was happening all these years!
They dropped their bags, cried and embraced one another with tears of
happiness.


They love each other, sincerely. What about us..?

Something to ponder.

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Assalamualaikum.....

Tak pasti apakah pendapat umum. Namun, pengalaman kita dalam bidang pekerjaan nie menguatkan hujah bahawa English ialah bahasa yang semakin luas di guna pakai. Janganlah kata kalau kerja dalam kerajaan tak perlu guna Bahasa Inggeris. Siapa kata?

Owh, kita bukanlah nak kata tinggalkan Bahasa Melayu. Semua rakyat Malaysia wajib cintakan Bahasa Melayu. Tetapi, dalam pada nak angkat martabat Bahasa Melayu, takkan boleh kita tembus ke hadapan kalau persedian kita tak cukup ampuh, kan?

Tak faham?

Fine, cuba beritahu, macam mana kita nak berkomunikasi dengan bangsa luar dan memperkenalkan Bahasa Melayu kalau kita tak pandai English? At least kita boleh ajar : We say how are you in Malay as Apa Khabar..

So, untuk itu, kita secara personalnya terrrpaksa peruntukkan setiap weekend as English day untuk Adam.

Malangnya, Adam sangat susah nak patuh pada peraturan tu. Kita selalu encourage dia untuk speak in English, walaupun salah grammar atau x tahu vocabs. Sebab, mamanya pun x pandai.

Namun, disebabkan nenek dan atuknya selaluuu lupa nak ber English dengan dia, di tambah pula sekolahnya dipenuhi dengan anak-anak Melayu, maka English seolah-olah tidak wujud dalam kehidupan Adam. Itulah sebabnya kita paksakan juga English during weekends.

Setelah setahun macam ayam bercakap dengan kucing, iaitu mama in English, Adam reply in Malay, maka last weekend akhirnya keluarlah juga 2-3 patah English words dari Adam. Simple English words. Contoh :


Contoh 1:
Mama : Adam, why you didn't finish your homework?
Adam : Laterlah mama. I'm tired.


Contoh 2:
Mama : Would you like to stop by at that shop for the char kuay tiaw?
Adam : I don't know. Up to you.


Ok..simple sangat kan, but at least dia dah mula sikit2. And before that, kalau pun dia reply in Malay, at least dia faham. To those words yang dia tak faham, dia akan tanya semula.

Contoh : Isolation. What is isolation?

Isolation ialah pengasingan. From the word isolate. How do you spell that? You should spell it like this : 

I-S-O-L-A-T-I-O-N

Lepas tu kita akan suruh dia repeat. So, the next time he sings Lemon Tree song from the Fools Garden, he understands what the word means.

And, masa hari sukan dalam entry semalam, it's weekend. So, we conversed in English. As usual, Adam akan limitkan se sedikit mungkin pertuturannya sebab dia malas nak kerah otak untuk menjawab in English. Tapi mamanya macam bertih jagung bertanya dan berpesan itu ini in English kat atas padang tu.

Rupa2nya, selepas kita beredar, kawan2nya bertanya :

Kawan 1 : Eh Adam, kau faham ke mama kau cakap apa?
Adam : Faham. Kenapa? Kau tak faham ke?
Kawan 1 : Aku faham sikit-sikit jer.
Kawan 2 : Aku langsunggg tak faham. Mama kau cakap apa?
Kawan 3 : Kenapa mama kau speaking?

See? Sayang sangat sebab mereka tidak didedahkan. Actually kita pun x berapa mahir English. Cuma bila usia dah masuk 16 tahun, barulah 'jumpa' cara untuk belajar English dengan mudah. Bagaimana? Melalui lagu. So, itulah antara cara yang kita share dengan Adam. And now, Adam tengah suka lagu2 Justin Bieber dan One Directions. At least he's on the right track.

Untuk sesiapa yang tinggal di bandar, tentu ini bukan masalah. Anak2 anda di sekolah bercampur dengan kanak2 dari bangsa Cina, India dan juga bangsa2 lain. Jadi, kalau pun x banyak, sedikit sebanyak kejanggalan berbahasa Inggeris itu tiada.

Owh, kalau belajar Bahasa Inggeris, mahir English, takkan nak lupakan bahasa ibunda kesayangan kita kan..?

Contoh paling mudah ialah Novelis Ayumi Syafiqah. Beliau cemerlang menulis novel Bahasa Melayu yang telah berjaya diterbitkan, tapi sebaliknya beliau adalah pelajar cemerlang TESL ( Teaching English as a Second Language).

Siapa kata kedua-dua bahasa tak boleh seiring?


Dan kita amat menghargai usaha seorang blogger muda iaitu Azham Vosovic yang gigih menulis blognya di dalam Bahasa Inggeris demi untuk memberikan pilihan pembelajaran Bahasa Inggeris kepada masyarakat Malaysia. Sesekali dalam entry beliau, akan ada senarai vocabulary di bawahnya. Apa maksud perkataan-perkataan yang beliau gunakan di dalam entry tersebut. Cuba terjah di SINI.

So, ada banyak cara untuk belajar. Pilihlah yang mana bersesuaian. Yang penting ialah memulakan langkah pertama.

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