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Learn our national language, you ignorant buffoons!
Fa Abdul
| November 22, 2015

While English is important, so is our national language and no citizen of this country has the excuse not to speak it well.
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What do you call a Malaysian who cannot speak Bahasa Melayu?

What do you call a Malaysian who is embarrassed to speak Bahasa Melayu?

What do you call a Malaysian who prefers to speak anything but Bahasa Melayu?

What do you call a Malaysian who upholds his/her native language at the expense of Bahasa Melayu?

I call them ignorant buffoons and you should too.

While fluency in our national language is not indicative of a person’s loyalty or love for his or her country, the inability to master one’s own national language does speak volumes of a person’s character.

Two weeks ago, we were shocked with news that 1000 medical graduates gave up on their dreams of becoming doctors despite having completed a two-year housemanship in public hospitals, because they lacked proficiency in English.

While many have blamed our education system for the appalling standard of English among our students and graduates today, we seem to forget that our national language is going down the same longkang too.

Seriously, if it is seen as important for medical doctors to possess a fluency in English in order to do their jobs well, is it not just as important that they have a good command of Bahasa Melayu for the very same reason?

I have met quite a few doctors who are unable to make themselves understood by their patients just as they are unable to understand their patients because of a language barrier.

Without a basic comprehension of either English or Bahasa Melayu, how do doctors ask about the medical histories of their patients so that they are able to recommend the best treatments for them?

Let us not forget, 70 per cent of us are native speakers of Bahasa Melayu – why then are we not making fluency in our national language an important skill to master for medical practitioners as well?

In all honesty, if Bahasa Melayu was made a compulsory subject to pass for our graduates, I foresee many more dropouts in our local universities compared to the number of dropouts today due to the lack of proficiency in English.

This brings me to the recent case of a DAP Member of Parliament who insisted on using English while debating a bill in Parliament despite being rebuked by the Deputy Speaker to speak only Bahasa Melayu.

Why the stubbornness?

While I, myself see no issue in using English in Parliament since our MPs are pandai-pandai belaka (I think-lah) and can comprehend the language, I wonder why it is so difficult to also be able to present one’s arguments in our national language when requested to do so.

In my honest opinion, anyone representing the people should be able to communicate effectively with all levels of communities, thus making the ability to converse well in our national language a priority. How else are you going to listen to the rakyat’s problems if you do not understand them?

Perhaps it is time for us to make the proficiency of our national language one of the fundamentals of citizenship in Malaysia.

I guess that would be the best way to rid this country of ignorant buffoons.

I guess he didn't look at mirror lately

Ignorant Buffon lol

She, not he.

In all honesty, if Bahasa Melayu was made a compulsory subject to pass for our graduates, I foresee many more dropouts in our local universities compared to the number of dropouts today due to the lack of proficiency in English.



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not compulsory?

Malas nak comment la

Nanti kena lipot lagi kata i flamebait la racist la

Tak boleh terima kritik = apj8188 flamebait

Tsk tsk tsk

Malay ke, Eng ke, Chinese ke, Indian ke

Learn so much buat apa? Make it standardized la.. we learn bm and understand our doctor and when we go out to other country to seek for medical care, Tak Boleh faham pula

No point

Fa Abdul surely a bodo guy. It's important to learn both if you want to survive in bolehland. English as to learn and to convey.. While bahasa to convey only.. medical studies la

But having poor proficiency in English is like working as a barber without knowing which one is the scissors and which one is the comb. Fa Abdul bodo

bahasa 1Malaysia!!!!!!

She did say - While English is important, so is our national language and no citizen of this country has the excuse not to speak it well.

I wish they could just invent a new language and make everyone on earth use it.

Esperanto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

But can't make everyone on earth use it.

It's good also wat ..........

if semua pandai bahasa 1Malaysia and nobody speaks English, then no one can migrate!!

Everyone will stay in this country FOREVER!!

And then we can bubarkan TalentCorp.

I don't agree with that. You can't force people to learn a languagr which is not your mother tongue language.

Since Malaysia is a multiracial country, to reflect its identity, why dont everyone speak Bahasa, Mandarin and tamil?... There you go.. The hypocrisy of each and everyone of us will arise

Then its hopeless and just wait to die loh.

So.. When to change from www.moe.gov.my to www.kpendidikan.gov.my

Www.tresuary.gov.my to www.kewangan.gov.my/www.perbendaharaan.gov.my
Feel shame to Malay language?

This post has been edited by ganz: Nov 22 2015, 03:02 PM

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We only have one national language, which is Malay.

I actually agree with most of what she said, not the ignorant buffoons part.

By ignorant Buffoon, I trust she is referring to rempit?

To that writer. Try go out of Malaysia and see BM can bring you how far? Bagai katak dibawah tempurung. Which language used most at other country?

English or BM? When I go Europe can BM help me when I ask around? You need English you Buffon.