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Some common Malay words that are useful to know in JB

KNNBCCB said:
well said bro... ini baru cikgu groober bahasa melayu
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Thanks bro but my Malay is not that good too. Passable yes and can carry a conversation with the local Malays up to a point. Sometimes I can see a puzzle look on their face trying to understand me.:D What is ok in JB and KL may not be understood by the locals in Pahang and further North as they have a different dialect. I cannot understand Kelantanese.
 
groober2011 said:
I suppose you need to have real life conversations in Malay to understand better. Understanding Malay by reading and translating is rudimentary at best and can lead to misunderstanding. A better way but quite troublesome is to copy the Malay translation and then reverse it from Malay/English to English/Malay. That too is not perfect.
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Yeah I think so too, can't understand whenever I overhead some Malay conversations in JB except simple words like panas talking about hot weather..
 
groober2011 said:
Thanks bro but my Malay is not that good too. Passable yes and can carry a conversation with the local Malays up to a point. Sometimes I can see a puzzle look on their face trying to understand me.:D What is ok in JB and KL may not be understood by the locals in Pahang and further North as they have a different dialect. I cannot understand Kelantanese.
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Actually how long did you all take to learn Malay to reach the current standard? I presume you all are non-Malays who did not learn Malay in school since young?
 
ginfreely said:
Actually how long did you all take to learn Malay to reach the current standard? I presume you all are non-Malays who did not learn Malay in school since young?
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I grew up in a multi-racial society having friends of different races. We mixed around and chatted with one another. I often travel to Malaysia and through my business make some good Malay friends. We meet one another once in a while.

Honestly, Malay is one of the easiest language to know as it is written using Latin alphabets.
 
groober2011 said:
I grew up in a multi-racial society having friends of different races. We mixed around and chatted with one another. I often travel to Malaysia and through my business make some good Malay friends. We meet one another once in a while.

Honestly, Malay is one of the easiest language to know as it is written using Latin alphabets.
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It took me about 4 years and the help of an ex indonesian gf too. Nothing to it
 
groober2011 said:
I grew up in a multi-racial society having friends of different races. We mixed around and chatted with one another. I often travel to Malaysia and through my business make some good Malay friends. We meet one another once in a while.

Honestly, Malay is one of the easiest language to know as it is written using Latin alphabets.
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Oic you have Malay friends in Malaysia through business. Actually I took a learning Malay course in community centre many years ago and at time felt that Malay very easy to learn too.
 
wikiphile said:
It took me about 4 years and the help of an ex indonesian gf too. Nothing to it
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Indonesian gf sure helpful, I found the Indonesia Malay sounds like music...like no full stop and tone different from JB/Spore Malay? You can understand JB/local Malay by understanding Indonesia Malay?
 
ginfreely said:
Indonesian gf sure helpful, I found the Indonesia Malay sounds like music...like no full stop and tone different from JB/Spore Malay? You can understand JB/local Malay by understanding Indonesia Malay?
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indo malay very headache ...

eg:

bisa in indo is BOLEH
bisa in My is POISON :eek:
 
hehhe no la.....my neighbour's former maid quite chatty and talked with our family a lot when she was working in sinkiepoor.

Learned a bit here and there but now forgot most of them.

KNNBCCB said:
you must be from indo
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KNNBCCB said:
indo malay very headache ...

eg:

bisa in indo is BOLEH
bisa in My is POISON :eek:
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I just checked the iphone translator..bisa = boleh and be able for verb, = poison for noun, = poisonous for adjective leh..
 
They do not speak the language in the same way nor use many common words which we are familiar with.
 
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