Anybody willing to teach me some Malaysian slang.., I can't understand more than 10 words!!! |
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Anybody willing to teach me some Malaysian slang.., I can't understand more than 10 words!!! |
  Nov 19 2005, 10:04 PM
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Newbie  Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 19-November 05  |
Heeelp
 I'm Asian but I was born in the US and though I know Mandarin Chinese that's all I know. Lately I dunno why but I've made several friends from Malaysia and they're friends with each other and when they chat on a certain forum they use slang and I keep on having to ask the one I know more well to translate. I think she's getting annoyed.. Basically I get the thing with the -la ending but that's it. And I know lambik (spelling??!?!?) because my friend translated for me. But that's ALL!! ALL HELP GRATEFULLY AND APPRECIATIVELY RECIEVED! |
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Nov 20 2005, 04:33 AM
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AF Pro  Group: Members Posts: 2,289 Joined: 4-October 05 From: I'm a NINERS!! |
Terima kasih - Thank you
to pronounce it ---> te-re-ma ca-sih |
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Nov 20 2005, 06:46 AM
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AF Guru  Group: Members Posts: 4,522 Joined: 5-February 05 From: Google Earth |
QUOTE (Janishta @ Nov 20 2005, 04:04 AM) Heeelp I'm Asian but I was born in the US and though I know Mandarin Chinese that's all I know. Lately I dunno why but I've made several friends from Malaysia and they're friends with each other and when they chat on a certain forum they use slang and I keep on having to ask the one I know more well to translate. I think she's getting annoyed.. Basically I get the thing with the -la ending but that's it. And I know lambik (spelling??!?!?) because my friend translated for me. But that's ALL!! ALL HELP GRATEFULLY AND APPRECIATIVELY RECIEVED!  hehe.. not Lambik , Its "Lembik"... Its a slang for Malaysian word "Lembut". ko-rang = you all a-pe-sal? / a-pe-hal?= why? ke-rek = snobbish kan-toi = got owned |
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Nov 20 2005, 09:32 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 19-November 05 |
lol XD thanks all
I'm proabbly going to look around and collect the meanings of words into one notepad document. What's the grammar like? In comparison to mandarin Chinese grammar (if anyone speaks chinese) |
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Nov 20 2005, 10:56 PM
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AF Fiend  Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 14-September 05 From: United States- Columbus, |
QUOTE (Janishta @ Nov 20 2005, 09:32 PM) lol XD thanks all I'm proabbly going to look around and collect the meanings of words into one notepad document. What's the grammar like? In comparison to mandarin Chinese grammar (if anyone speaks chinese) The grammar's like Thai and Laos. It's kind of similar to Chinese as well, but I would say it looks more like Thai/Laos grammatically. Not a hard language to learn at all. Good luck |
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Nov 21 2005, 12:57 AM
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AF Fiend Group: Members Posts: 313 Joined: 18-September 05 |
QUOTE (Janishta @ Nov 20 2005, 09:32 PM) lol XD thanks all I'm proabbly going to look around and collect the meanings of words into one notepad document. What's the grammar like? In comparison to mandarin Chinese grammar (if anyone speaks chinese) in mandarin chinese for example: wo hui shuo ii de er phu tong hua. direct translation in english: I speak a little mandarin. in malay: `Saya cakap sedikit mandarin` which is grammaticcally wrong. but ppl will still understand it.U should say, `Saya boleh bercakap sedikit mandarin` My point is...sumtimes, they use ber+ verb , ter+ verb ...etc |
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 Nov 21 2005, 07:23 AM
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AF Pro Group: Members Posts: 2,318 Joined: 23-July 05 From: JB <->kuantan |
er...i dont think its a good idea to get tuition classes on malay language here on the net since most of us will be using the improper malay...and it will just confuse you even more...try to do some reading instead...and watch loads of malay programme...but i wish u luck on that one...most of the malay programmes kinda suck
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Nov 21 2005, 08:30 AM
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AF Pro Group: Members Posts: 2,614 Joined: 29-August 05 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish
The Manglish in Wikipedia is not so complete. But you'll get the rough idea on how Manglish is spoken through learning the Singlish. Hope you'll understand. ^__^ |
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Nov 22 2005, 05:10 AM
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AF Geek  Group: Members Posts: 285 Joined: 10-November 05 From: Singapore |
yea, singlish n manglish gt lots of similarities..
 2 Anyway cheers 
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