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Third Post

1. In my entire lives, I think among the most enjoyable things that I continually do and progress to success is my maneuver (manoeuvre) in conquering the English language.

2. From time to time, I will always create the opportunity to be a proficient in this universal language. Until now, if I were to ask myself whether if I am good at it or besides? My best answer would be; I am still in the process of learning. Apparently, the more I think about being a master in this language, the more I figure out that it is not a difficult language to understand and learn, only that, in more time to come, I need to enrich myself with more vocabularies couple with beautiful English idioms to continually stimulate the interest in me.

3. Some says that in order to be a proficient in this language, one must be frequently using it, in his or her daily life. Meaning to say that, every day, we must talk, read and write in English, then only we can progress timely. I agree with this statement, but somehow, I need to put a little argument over it. For instance, how about those people who do not have the opportunity to do all as mentioned above? For example, pupils at remote areas? Hence, by raising this argument, I will give the best example possible to bestow the best solutions, at least among my family back at my village. I still have my siblings at primary and secondary schools, or even some at the higher institute of learning. Nevertheless, their ability in using the English language was still not encouraging.

4. I still remember when I was at the college, when the study board decides that they would segregate the English classes accordingly to the pupils’ knack. We had been placed accordingly to the class segments by set, from A to E, hence, being a terrible performer; I was placed at the end of perimeter for quite a few years.

5. Nevertheless, we are very fortunate. I have a very good English teacher that teaches me, as far as practicable, to the best of her efforts and abilities. Her name is Miss Amar Shoba. I don't want to describe much about how she had taught us a very good English, but enough if I say, in a very honoured way, that until today, I am still singing the songs 'Fernando' by ABBA, 'La Is La Bonita' by Madonna, 'Leave a Light On' by Belinda Carlisle and another song that I can't remember it right now, but absolutely I can sing it whenever I can remember it. The lyrics are still in my head. How 'beautiful' this teacher is, only Allah will bless her someday.

6. So, coming back to my solutions, I have the same opinion with Malaysian Royal Professor Ungku Aziz; it is the mother language that will let you determine as the key factor to be successful in any other languages you speak, write and read. We must get back to the basic fundamentals of learning our mother tongue on how to arrange the words, in restructuring our sentences, and eventually developed into very good essays to read. Then only we can success in whatever languages we learn. Obviously, one of the word that has been emphasized by Professor Ungku Aziz is to understand the 'nahu' of the mother tongue. In my case, it is in no doubt; the language would be Bahasa Melayu.

7. That's why, here in my blog, I will emphasize on how can I write better in both languages, because I believe that if I am good at Bahasa Melayu, sooner or later, I will be a mastery too in any other languages I learn.

8. At home in my village, whenever I got the opportunity to review my younger brothers' book, I will absolutely emphasize on their ability to conquer the Bahasa Melayu first, even though I know that their English is not so good.

9. I believe they can still be like me one day. They will progress timely in their second language if they are willing to learn.