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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Young Expressions: Language learning (Radio Singapore International)

Find out how someone has learned to speak several languages fluently.  When we have the need and the desire we discover that we can learn another language quickly.  Typically we don't learn because we don't practice enough.

If you are wondering if those words were spoken by four different people. The answer is no.

his young lady from Malaysia has picked up not only her mother tongue, but also other Chinese dialects like Hokkien and Teochew, and even Thai, Bahasa Malaysia as well as English through the course of her growing up years in Kelantan.

This is Young Expressions and I am Shereena Sajeed. Recently, Loretta Foo made a trip to Malaysia and caught up with Ng Wan Choo , a 25 year old Malaysian law student who is able to understand and speak five different languages.

And she shares with us what these languages are.

Chinese, English, BM (Bahasa Malaysia), Malay, Cantonese and Hokkien are languages that I can understand and I can speak. I can only understand a bit of the Thai language because I watch a lot of Thai drama, other languages like Teochew, I can only understand but I cant’s speak.

You can hear the podcast at the original site.

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