Love and confused languages
Today seems to be a day for languages. Across the office, a couple of guys were discussing English, Indonesian and Mandarin Chinese in the morning. Later on in the afternoon, one was teaching another a few fairly complicated Chinese phrases, completely jumbling my brain which was already struggling with English.
I've discovered a couple of weeks ago that in learning French, I'm actually remembering Malay. I would think "Comment ça va?" followed by "Khabar baik!" ("Things are good!") in response, much to my own confusion. While I would dearly like to be able to write well in French, it's perhaps not a bad thing that I rekindle my knowledge in Malay.
I dug up a list of ISO 639 language codes and a nifty little Malay/English/Chinese dictionary.
Setiap kali saya tulis di sini, saya akan cuba memasukkan satu perenggan dalam bahasa Melayu. Sudahlah hampir sepuluh tahun sejak saya menulis atau membaca dalam bahasa ini - 'dah lupa semuanya! :/
Je suis très fatiguée ... but there is still much packing to do.
Script speaks of interior spaces, where love is the candlelight one writes by.
Posted by sniffles at April 09, 2002 04:02 PM