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shchong2

Hi there, how are you doing? I must admit that I completely do not realize there is such a zone like this in eyny, specializing in English learning, until I browse through by accident. I think this activity is a very sound idea by encouraging various folks to discuss and participate using English. There is no other way to improve English, other than practice, practice, and more practice!

Just in case you wonder, English is not my mother tongue. I am a Malaysian Chinese, where Mandarin (Chinese Language) is my mother tougue, and Malay Language is my national language. Since young each Malaysian has to learn at least 2 or more languages, where Malay Language is a compulsory subject. Although there are quite a number of Malaysian Chinese do not speak or read Mandarin, but at very least they can understand and speak some dialects, such Cantonese, Hokkian, Hakka, Teochiew, etc.

As for me, I spoke Mandarin at home since young, and I understood a little bit of Hakka as my grandparents spoke in Hakka ccasionally. However I did not have a very good command of English until I finished my secondary school, mostly due to lack of practice, especially in term of spoken English. I could read and write decently, but I could barely say a complete sentence fluently. Not until I entered University, where English became a medium for learning. Friends and classmates spoke English to each other. Lecturers taught and discussed in English. All the examinations were conducted in English as well. After a couple of years of regular use of English in my daily lives, I was getting used to speaking much better English than before.

After graduated, I was hired by a multi-national company based in Silicon Valley, U.S. It is one of the biggest company in the field of semi-conductor. The good thing about working in a well-known and well-established multi-national company is that there are a lot of freedoms, and you get to deal with people from all over the world, be it from all corners of the U.S, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. English becomes part and parcel of my daily working life. Each year I get to travel overseas to the US and occasionally to the Europe, for meetings and project or work-related discussions. Sometimes I get to relocate to the US for half a year or one year.


Working life is tough, lots of competitions, politics, technical challenges, and with bad economic climate, financial pressure is looming much worse than ever. Speaking about work, I think I better call it a day here, get a shower, and get back to my works that are pilling up!


That is all for now, catch up with you guys some other time. Have a nice day. Cheers~!...

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shchong2

whitetigercg 發表於 2013-1-25 08:02 AM

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Just woke up from my 2 hours nap.. and I'm still a bit in the sleeping mode right now.  

Me and my  ...

I see you are currently in New Jersey. How's the weather with the North East right now? Still lots of heavy snows all day long, with temperature in the lower twenties or into the teens? A little bit of snows is fun, but too much snow and continuous cold winds from the Artic Circle will become too much of a nuisance, isn't it?
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