Haha.. couldn't believe it. My aunt's fren from NZ said i speak like a kiwi. Wahahaa... i tot i have a very strong Malaysian accent. hmm.. but of coz i speak to them (kiwis) with a kiwi accent. After all, I have been there for a 5 yrs. I'm sure anyone would have picked up the accent by then. I know someone who actually speaks totally like a kiwi after a year in NZ! She speaks to her parents or other malaysians with a kiwi accent! sheesh... some ppl just don't remember their roots. SIGH! what a shame!
Back to my initial topic. Don't think kiwis can understand our "fast-paced" malaysian english. hahaa. Maybe some do. But most of them, they normally go... 'sorry i didn't get you??'. I must say that kiwis do speak a bit slower and clearer. Maybe most of them think that Asians can't speak fluently or we have difficulty understanding them if they spoke too fast. Well, true for some but definitely not true for most Malaysians. We do study English in school and most ppl are surprised that we have a pretty good command of English. It's only the accent that makes it sound as though we are speaking in another language. I still remember, during my first year in University, my taiwanese fren (kiwi born) asked if my fren and I were conversing in a malaysian language, when we were actually speaking in english, but with the accent. hehe.
Oh well, hahaa... i still speak with a malaysian accent as far as i'm concerned. At least i don't go speaking to my fellow malaysians in that way. I'm a Malaysian and will always be proud to be one! :)
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