When I was in school we sat for Senior Cambridge instead of SPM. Nowadays when we speak English and write in English some people will brand us of ''Showing off'' and ask and ask ''Tak bangga ke dengan bahasa kita?"
Very true. I have heard that before from my other Malay friends too. Reminds me of a time whn i attended the MGSS school in my hometown first time. I didn't know the way to the office and asked a Malay student passing by. The school was well known for its high command of the English Language in my older sisters' time. So imagine my shock whrn this girl just gave me a cold glare and rebuked me with "tak tahu cakap melayu ke?"
Some years ago, while visiting a museum in Guancho, China I chanced to read a statement regarding the main focus of China’s education system. “ our country education system must focus heavily on science and technology, our county needs engineers, doctors, technocrats…. to build, bridges, roads, airports, airplanes , ships , trains in-order to move this country forward.” True enough, after 40 plus years , China has successfully moved 800 million people out of poverty and has also become a global superpower! We wasted 64 years quarreling and in confusion fighting about race and religion!!! When and for how long more is Malaysia going to get it right, I wonder , if we ever have enough sense to think straight!!! It’s 21st Century not “ Zaman Batu”
Malays can't stand PRC China style education, 8am - 9pm. Saturday is school day. No tuition outside, every parent extra fees for teachers overtime. Also, they recently ban outside extra tuition because some parents are too crazy. Those from Beijing/Tsinghua University are no joke, best of 1 billion people. Wuhan itself have over 1 million university student. Teachers are well respected profession in China.
Agong ,already said this cannot ,that cannot ,go stay n in.caves . We must have * Zaman Cave* . Pas,UMNo ,etc leaders , members etc refuse to go n stay in caves
Well said, Mariam on how the government destroy the education system. It’s also true on other issues as well. All because the government championed the Malay Agenda at all cost. The ultimate fate sadly will be a failed country for all Malaysians to salvage upon 😓
Malaysian leaders were taught to chase the dollar signs.Rakyat were taught to work,sweat,struggle and died to survive.When leaders did wrong they were taught to escape punishment,but when rakyat did wrong they were taught to accept punishment..ministers son were all fluent in English because they were taught oversea..rakyat were taught YES and NO..and taught not to go over or above the head of the leaders.
My dear MM. I met a young lady who studied English programms ( i can't recall the programms' name)in higher learning university in Malaysia to teach English in secondary school. She can't even start a conversation about what she studied in proper grammar. How the hell the students will understand and learn from her teachings??? I was totally speechless and stopped the conversation in order not to embarass her further. Told her politely to listen to more BBC news and learn & understand the language & most importantly listen to the pronounciations of the words and practice it oftenly.
@@yushigawa8610 Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
It is the case of the blind leading the blind in the public school system. And the parents unwittingly go along with it when they depend on these teachers (irrespective of race) to "enlighten" their children in school and, worse yet, in private tuition. A double whammy, if you ask me.
Why only to BBC? Is it because once upon a time the Brits were our masters? Come on give it a break, will you. With your comment above your standard of English must be well above that of the poor young lady's. But is it? Please take a moment and check it yourself!
I have always enjoyed listening to you and the current one on Christmas celebration in Kilat Kelab touches my heart n soul as we grew up in LLN quarters within the Kilat Kelab. Yes, during Christmas it was a great joy n happiness full of eagerness we children all 8 of us would run down to Kilat Kelab for this celebration. Just like our family many other children would join, Malays n Chinese. We would get not only gifts but sweets, chocolates n cakes. It was so beautiful. Friends n neighbours would all visit each others houses. No issues of whether one had used a separate utensils or whether it was halal , whatever not. Similarly, when non Muslims visits Raya houses no issues of whether the utensils as well. How sad our beloved country has made to become today.
I'm commenting without watching the whole video. This only my view about our education system. Tbh the problem not only on English but almost every subject. Over the year I've seen many parents posted a picture of how ridiculous the question is. For example not long ago I saw a post from a friend showing a page from bhs melayu book and the question was to name our national car. It doesn't make sense at all to ask a primary school student to name our Malaysian national car in bhs melayu subject. We really need to stop this. Malaysian politics and the politicians are screwing with our education system for their own interests. They want a 'yes man' citizen not a smart one. They want you to be stupid enough to listen, to follow and depend on them, not smart enough to question them and go against them.
I would like to share an experience here Mariam... I interviewed a fresh local graduate back in 1997 from the South where he applied for an Administrative position. He could hardly converse a sentence without making a grammatical mistake. Working in a Japanese construction company, we in the Admin Dept had to practically handle A-Z apart from technical matters. When he asked about his potential job scope, I gestly replied.. "basically anything and everything under the sun, apart from technical matters"... he paused, looked worried and then replied, "then I'm not interested in the job"... my obvious response and curiosity was, why? He replied... "under sun, very hot"... 🤦♂️ That was when I really questioned the English standard of most our local graduates, "thanks" to our education system to be where we are today.
I beg to digress:- Even though I speak and write English up to reasonable level (and I also speak smutteringly and read in other language with cyrilic alphabets) I will still decline this job. Why? Your "gestly" saying "anything" under the sun if accepted can be used as a weapon to abuse of worker. And (who knows) he might have also answered your suggestion "jestly" I may be wrong ..... sorry
That's the sad state of our education system and I personally do not see it's going to improve moving forward unless the government makes radical changes to our present education system.
During my primary school in Alor Setar in 1970, most of the Malay parents sent their children to English medium school namely SR Tunku Abdul Halim, SR Iskandar and even Convent school. Wan Azizah was also studying in Nicholas Convent in early days. The English medium school are always full because the Malay parents will always rush to queue up and make sure their children got a place in the English medium school. Then there was a nearby Malay medium school SRJK Kanchut which was always empty with less than 50 student registering each year. Even the Malay in the kampung villages would rather wake up very early to send their children to English medium school in the city centre every day. Then came along our new politician Dr Mahathir starting to translate Maths and Science subjects to Bahasa in the 70s and later totally abolished the English medium school to strengthen their political foothold. I can remember those days the Malays speak better English than the Chinese because most Chinese are studying in Vernacular Chinese school. I recalled later that Mahathir try to convert back at least the Maths and Science subjects into English but the damage was already done. And the latest episode of new politician minister abusing our education system was during Muhyiddin's time as education minister who ensure that English should not be widely used by converting back the Maths and Science subjects to Bahasa. Then this is the end of the story when our 'Cash is King' champion would rather spend hundreds of millions for our teachers to start learning English rather than our student to learn English.
Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
Hi Mariam, Really like your videos addressing the problems that Malaysia has! I want to suggest putting your patreon links and maybe other social media platforms if you use any in the description so it's easier for us to support your work! I'm a 22 year old Malaysian that has been noticing the problems in the education system since I was 15. When I was in highschool I dread by the fact that these teachers are only teaching us things so we could pass our exams and not teach us the things that are actually useful for our future. I am glad my parents let me grow up playing games and using the internet as that was the way I learned my English and never once did I thought my ability to speak, read and write the language was because of school. Saya suka bercakap dalam Bahasa Malaysia tapi apa yang cik Mariam kata tu betul. Bahasa Inggeris ni membuka pintu ke banyak topik pembelajaran. Cuba korang google satu benda dalam Bahasa Melayu, pastu cuba dalam bahasa Inggeris, kalau korang perasan lagi banyak benda awak boleh cari dalam bahasa inggeris. Again, love your work Mariam and I hope for a better future for Malaysia!
Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
Puan Mariam. let me share my story about how I learn and equip myself with English proficiency 1. My dad was an English teacher so he created a culture at home and speak English with us kids. 2. Then I studied at a religious school the SMKA type and was surrounded by friends who were not keen to learn English. But I don't care I had a long-term ambitions so I asked money from dad and subscribed English newspapers The Star on daily basis because that's the best way I learnt English, by reading news. 3. And my own efforst works. I scored A1 in SPM English and was awarded the best student. 4. I was successful in creating my own environment and system, despite of my surroundings. 5. I didn't blame my friends or school or teachers. 6. Today I am among the best high flyers and high income earners among my friends same batch, all because of my English proficiency I can work anywhere. Alhamdulillah
Yes, absolutely true to destroy a nation, the government can just mess up the education system. On the contrary, there is a saying by Nelson Mandela "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world". With the current deplorable state of our education system, Malaysia is sliding backwards. The education system is aligned with too much of political agenda which does not promote critical thinking skills, one of the important skills in this era.
Very true, Ma'am. I was well aware of this while I was still at school. Thankfully, my dad was fully aware too and made sure we were well-versed and fluent in the English language. He never quit reminding us how important it was for our future that we mastered our command in English Language. We were learning primary level English at Secondary School and still some of these idiots could still have problem getting even a simple pass in the exam. I wonder even how they got that pass, going by their performance during classroom sessions itself..
I was standard 1 in 1974 it's English school New type primary Ashby Road school Ipoh in 1975 it's changed to sekolah rendah Sri Kinta Ipoh in the years studied l m abel to learn English because All the teachers are English educated then . Puan 100% right 👍
Malaysia have declined in other areas as well. Didn't we used to be one of the well off countries in Asia, ahead of Singapore, South Korea, China? Our football team was the best in Asia. Now our football ranking is at the bottom of the league table. Apa dah jadi?
Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
From the more and more simplified versions of the chosen literature books to the constant lowering of the demands of the exam questions to the more and more lenient marking to the politically-maneouvring of mark allocation (eg. from total 250 marks or so translated to 100% as final score) and to the downgrading of the grading system (eg. 68% is an A-) amongst other thinly-veiled factors.
Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
Nope..The double standard marking makes non-Malay studied even harder than the Malay! Because of this, majority non-Malay opt out of national education system! So the loser were the Malay not non-Malay!
Because of one man race base policy and his selfish political agenda.. Malaysia are now a third world country confirm... now its too late for any salvation...kudos for his actions and those who follow his propaganda...
"Too late for salvation." So sad but true. Yes, no bombs needed, he just left his shit. Indeed, Kudos to the brave Mariam Mokhtar for her immense efforts. 💐We Thank You!!! Our nation in dire straits ...
"His policies were responsible for the decline in English. Wanted to stamp his mark in politics by pushing his agenda. At the expense of our education system." Malicious M. 👹 Ribuan Terima Kasih to our Most Distinguished Mariam Mokhtar!
@Tranquility TenThousand it all started when English is not a subjects to pass, from than on LoL it was all the way to the drain, rivers and now right in the middle of the sea
@@razakahmad4086 Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
My primary school English teacher back in 1983 was a Malay lady. Her command of English is excellent. As years goes by the newer younger generation teacher had lower standard of teaching.
To be honest, English is an important tool of communication in the world and every country need it in order get connected with each other. The English fluency crisis isn't a Malaysian exclusive one. Even countries like Japan and China and other Spanish speaking countries have this kind of problem too.
Doing business in Malaysia also need English and etc Being multi language will gives you a lot's of edges in the business world! Become a civil servant is the only option available if can't communicate in English!
@@Chingaez Countries like Japan, China and Thailand are implementing English into their school curriculum nowadays! In Malaysia we trying to remove English, Chinese and etc......
@@ChowYewLoon Well, for Japan and Thailand, I can understand. For China though, especially the CCP, I don't trust 'em because from what I know from some sources, CCP is about to squash English teachers too. Also, for Malaysian government trying to eradicating other languages like English and Chinese and Tamil and some say Portuguese, isn't THAT defeat the purpose of Malaysia being a multi-lingual country? I can understand the lamentations.
@@Chingaez what do you mean squash the English teacher? Bear in mind some of the teachers are working for CIA. Look at HK, they trained them to be rioters. I worked in China before and I know some of the foreigner teachers and they are happy in China till today.
I was the rare Malaysian where school subjects were still taught in English language in the 70s. I found it so interesting and 'expensive' during those school days as though I was in the international school of today.
@@PassionPno Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
I did teach English in s private school. The classes I taught were standard 1 to form 1. The syllabus was poor with feeling in blanks with adjectives or correct forms of verbs I even helped the Form 5 teacher who had a degree from UM it was a section about ticking the correct adjecitive. I am trained Western music trained teacher.. but my father bought us lots of English books.. I
I have the same experience as her. My Malay friends of 30 yrs have over the years become more and more intolerant. The culture of Ketuanan had gone into their heads. One of them actually told me he can take over my "business" any time he likes. I asked him how. His reply was: Ketuanan policy enable him to do so. I suspect this is the ultimate aim of the ketuanan policy is to nationalise Chinese assets and give it to Malays. My belief is that this is what Mamak intends to do but the rise of China has put a stop to it.
Hi Mariam, Well done.. a great video depicting the true reasons for the deplorable standard of English in Malaysia. Just to share my own observations: 1. Children fr English speaking families would sometimes laugh at the school English teachers’ grammar. Substandard English teachers will spawn substandard English speaking students. It’s like the blind leading the blind. 2. Some so-called high ranking educated personnels like to rattle on their speeches n enjoy throwing in some English words without being able to actually speak English with complete grammatically correct sentences. Does doing that reflect that they are of an elevated breed n status of educated individuals? Continue doing your eye-opening videos. Love them.
yes, yes,yes. I observed my schoolmates and my varsity friends failed to present their graduation research result in good english during that era of MM reign. Some of them murmured on stage, I nearly could not withhold my laughter. 🤣 😆
Politicians praise the national language and government schools, BU....UUT they send their children to international schools locally or abroad for education. Cakap tak sama dengan apa yang dilakukan. When I was in school years ago, my malay classmates spoke to me in English and I spoke to them in BM. It was a win-win situation. They wanted to improve English and I needed to learn BM.
This is because at that time, with "Impeccable" hindsight, Tun UTurn Doctor Musang Pembelit whom was the Education Minister and then to be the Pembelit Malaysia (PM) for 22 years, wanted Malaysians to learn URDU to be closer to the Country he looks up to, i.e. Pakistan lor!!!
Yeah i agree i was born in the fiftys i studied in english school our history books were about the world now our kids dont even know whats the capital city of countries and the same goes to other subjects the education level and standards of those days and nowdays varies alot hmm what can we do now by just looking at the fate of our younger generation i only studied a normal secondary education level lets see whats going to happen🤐
Even after 1977...there were so many malays enroled in Catholic schools thinking that they will master the language as there were chinese & indian students so that the malay students would converse with other students of other race...and still they would not even try....so sad...its their lost...
Just implement English medium schools with availability of mother tongues like Singapore. This would elevate the standards of English and competitiveness in the marketplace. Hawkers of all ethnicities in Singapore speak fluent English whilst Malaysian graduates struggle.
If Malaysia implement speaking like Singapore? The extremisme Malay will Burn Your house, because you Anti Islam, anti Melayu!!! But the Open Malay? The are totally different, they are open minded, they will to accept different opinion. They are Hungry to learn New Thinga to improve themself to connect to the world.
@@newcastleupontyne8682 If the Malays want to learn and speak only Malay, they can go ahead with their fake belief. The non-Malays in Malaysia will continue to learn/speak many other languages including having learned Malay.
Malaysia have 2 type of Malay, (1) extremist(2) open minded Malay. It depends who you want to Friend to . Unfortunately in our country, the extremist malay are Controling the Government. Why Malaysia Fall back every year? Because the extremist are managing the Country! And most extremist are come from Kampong! They have short mind,they are Dinasaur, and they Never see and never heard of Non Malay existed in this Country. That’s why, they never know how to respect the Right of non Malay in this country.
@@newcastleupontyne8682 Makes sense. If the Malays continue to believe that, they are the one who will stand to lose the most because they can't even speak/learn another language whilst 99.9% of the knowledge in the world are in key languages such as English, German, Chinese etc. That's a fact. If you don't want to believe that, then, you can leave the world.
@@leealex24 yes, that’s why Non Malay are far advance that Malay in Malaysia. They are more educated that the Malay, they are open minded, because of this, the non Malay will become Richer that Malay . That’s why the Malay are getting poorer and poorer, and never stop asking Help from government. Most unfortunately ; the Malay still don’t know why they are Poor!!!
Very sad state of affairs and we from the sixties feel humiliated that politicians are mostly illiterate in English and do not acknowledge the importance of it as a global communications tool!!Without quality education, the next generations future is very bleak
The most important jobs are not given to the best people, the most complex job is not given to the most experienced person, the most difficult job is not given most knowledgeable person, the most important things are not given attention, the most superficial things are given priority, it is know not what u know but who u know which determines your success in ..........
@@mycomsolutions The majority of the Malays in Malaysia has a very odd mindset. They have golden opportunity to learn/speak another language which is a very important language yet they reluctant. China with population of 1.5bil people excluding even the Chinese diaspora overseas have learned and spoken English fluently because they're know the importance. Mind you, China is the 2nd largest economy in the world and soon will be the largest yet they know the importance of English despite Mandarin and Cantonese being very important but still learned it. What more the Malays?
@@mycomsolutions We have had many crash landings before and no rectification steps was ever aken. Not before, not now and not ever. 60 years of racial division and with the apartheid policy and mentality embedded into the country's constitution and I'm almost certain that any effort may deem fertile now and ever. Stand aside and witness the abomination of this country and its people. Stupidity has no cure.
Dei ! DSAI yg mess-up the power of English by introducing ’Bahasa Baku’ ! Controlled the development of English hence, the Malays became the top victim. Today there are Prof Kangkongs Was’salam
When I was young our Malaysian English was I think better then what the British themselves spoke because they learned it as their mother tongue. We learned it formally in school so we learned it properly. True we speak Minglish. But it was still bolih tahan. I can't say much because RUclips will censor me.
let's make her PRIME MINISTER>>>or education minister...she is english elite n can hold herself in debates internationally ...spore will need her as a citizen 2 teach english 2 sg....she is not appreciated in marysia.....
Agree. We can see what happen to our menteri. Can't speak Inggeris when represent Malaysia. We cakap bahasa ibonda when we talking to someone with same language not in the international forum. when we speak Inggeris,they just criticism, ini Malaysia, cakap B.Melayu. we can speak any language we want to communicate.
it is the great racial divide... hinese-koreans-japanese forced their kids 2 learn with tution n extra schooling in ENGLISH...malays is ok with malay...read the koran n sing it out load...johor chinese families send their kids as young as 11 years old to singapore daily 2 learn english... sg has the BEST education system praised by the west...won prizes, spelling bees n stands out as a beacon of light to seek information n communication.. malay just keep 2 themselves...
To control a country citizen, you must have obedient citizen. To do that, educate them with low quality education. They lower the English grade and made all subject in bahasa malaysia. But their children are send abroad. When the people are stupid then easy for them to manipulate and corrupt the country.
I am as a Malaysian retiree whose English proficiency is higher than most Singaporean at large. But I hope I would be able to serve my country to raise the bar of our younger generation
Racist education system of Msia is the main cause. I remember a young scarf clad teacher who is an English optionist started her class... Good morning... Buka. Mukasurat. Omg
Until about 1963 only about 10% of school-going children were educated in English up to Primary School level and only 5% up to secondary school level and probably 1% at higher levels. The majority were educated in the vernaculer languages or remained illeterate. Among the Malays, education for the vast majority stopped at primary school level. This situation existed until about 1967 and education in English deteriorated once Malay replaced it as the medium of instruction at the secondary level. Teacher training was first done in-situ ( at the work place) for the English medium schools and later also at two colleges in England and one in Penang. Two or three colleges catered for Malay primary school teacher training. At the Penang college at least until 1965 only about 10% of trainee intake were Malays. The British provided education in English to the few they needed to satisfy the administrative, commercial and plantation needs then. Professionals were mainly recruited from the home country. The level of English taught as a second or third language cannot replace the standard you obtain in classes which are taught entirely in English. The Education Ministry should utilise all available educational technology and methodology to remedy the situation short of the monumental task and massive cost of having all education delivered in English .
I have seen this happen in the GH...STAFF NURSE cant speak english...most of the time they will reply when you speak english to them is...."ini malaysia...cakap melayu"...even that reply is wrong..in bahasa..😆😆😆
Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
@@danialloomberg954 Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
Dah duduk kat Malaysia,lahir pun kat Malaysia cakap la bahasa melayu.gigih pula mengata nurse tak pandai cakap English,padahal engkau tu yang tak reti cakap Melayu.shame on you.
Mariam, English education was destroyed by Ketuanans from UMNO BARU. Today school leavers holding diplomas and degrees are unable to be employed in the private sector because of their lack in English. Its a sorry state yet the Ketuanans keep complaining private sectors are not employing Malays due to racism.
Our govt system is like leaking water tank and we have wasted time on silly matters and have alot catch-up. Todate no strategy policies to move the country forward.
You go to a government hospital you will have to be good in Bahasa Malaysia or else many young Doctors or nurses there could not easily communicate with you. Communicating in English in a government hospital could be a problem unless you talk to a senior Doctor/nurse.
@@lrc3661 Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
@@PassionPno Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
The govt employed too large a ratio of bumi teachers and the decline started in the standard of education and also the decline of english.nowadays you will find very few chinese and indian teachers in schools.
Went to talk to a school Counselor once. Sure she ‘flip her scarf’ confidently, overzealous as though parents are ignorant & uneducated. Until she start babbling nonsense, myohmymalaysia!
To learn English one needs to take some interest. Sadly some still refer to English as bahasa penjajah. Look at the world around us. It's always an added advantage to read ,write and speak in language in order to gain knowledge which is mostly in English. Politicians here know a good command of English isn't too good for their ' rice bowl ' Not many people like Mariam are there to help make a change but we have to start somewhere. The ministry can spend millions, billions but at the end of the day we need to ask who actually benefited. Bahasa Melayu is the official language as enshrined in the constitution, no one questions the position of Bahasa Melayu .
40 tahun lepas, sekolah Convent & kebangsaan bertutur dlm bahasa English. Kini dah tak ada lagi. TM fasih berbahasa English, tapi dia halang rakyat biasa maju dlm B. English.
Now our MSM uses 4 people & no longer use 4 person... I'm confused. Now some of the so call Malay words I hv never heard b4 , like Jom etc. Think they are nepali word. As long as the public is not able to fully understand any conversation than they are easier to be control & to tell them stories.
@@leekimhar8223 Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
@@PassionPno Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
Di universiti sains Malaysia ada seorang pensyarah mentaliti UMNO dia ditugaskan mengajar computer networking hanya modul ini saja dlm english , 50 modul pelbagai subjek computer hampir semua modul computer dlm BM tapi dlm kelas saya kebanyakan student melayu tak nak belajar dlm english walau satu subjek pun, pensyarah itu pun tak fasih english maka dia pun bawa buku penterjemahan BM "Rangkaian komputer, ada seorang student Cina pertikai cadangan pensyarah katanya kita sudah belajar hampir 45 subjek dlm BM kenapa tidak kita teruskan subject ini dlm English kerana terminologi Networking amat janggal dlm BM , pensyarah itu marah student Cina itu sampai bangkitkan isu agama dan personal insult dan semua pelajar melayu setuju belajar dlm BM saja, kecuali saya dan student Cina keluar dari kelas membantah keputusan Majoriti itu.Inilah mentaliti orang melayu di Malaysia sehingga menteri melayu tak fasih English.
China with population of 1.5bil people excluding even the Chinese diaspora overseas have learned and spoken English fluently because they're know the importance. Mind you, China is the 2nd largest economy in the world and soon will be the largest yet they know the importance of English and have learned it. What more the Malays?
How can we improve the standard of our education when those who opt to become teachers....do so only because they are not qualified to study law, engineering, architecture, accounting, economics, etc. SPM pun cukup makan, the only way out is maktab perguruan.
Malaysia educational policy harms the growth of the language barrier today. The terms have to return to the world dialect English again for us our locals to be fluent with the language.
The old man knows what he's doing in that he wants the rakyat to b stupid n depended on the govt so he can do whatever he likes without opposition from the massess.
The ugly side of national patriotic mindset. The negative effects of. Fallacious racism , the ethnic mindset ,diving the people and impeding the interaction of the various communities , no sharing of genomic memory. All half baked narrow minded politics. So who benefits? Those who studied English spoke English and and studied overseas . Solve the problem , mandatory National language and English as the intentional language. Otherwise they will lose out and become less competitive.
When I was in school we sat for Senior Cambridge instead of SPM.
Nowadays when we speak English and write in English some people will brand us of ''Showing off'' and ask and ask ''Tak bangga ke dengan bahasa kita?"
These are the retard minded people, just ignore them🥰🥰
Bangga d lahirkan dlm bangsa Melayu lebeh bangga bila boleh
Bercakap menulis dlm banyak bahasa terutama bahasa English
@@trigonometry9010 the day you start thinking of yourself as a human first - there might be hope for you lot.
Very true. I have heard that before from my other Malay friends too. Reminds me of a time whn i attended the MGSS school in my hometown first time. I didn't know the way to the office and asked a Malay student passing by. The school was well known for its high command of the English Language in my older sisters' time. So imagine my shock whrn this girl just gave me a cold glare and rebuked me with "tak tahu cakap melayu ke?"
@@ambecappmanikam3351 ---- she must have been too shy to say, 'I no spik inglis' ---
Some years ago, while visiting a museum in Guancho, China I chanced to read a statement regarding the main focus of China’s education system. “ our country education system must focus heavily on science and technology, our county needs engineers, doctors, technocrats…. to build, bridges, roads, airports, airplanes , ships , trains in-order to move this country forward.” True enough, after 40 plus years , China has successfully moved 800 million people out of poverty and has also become a global superpower! We wasted 64 years quarreling and in confusion fighting about race and religion!!! When and for how long more is Malaysia going to get it right, I wonder , if we ever have enough sense to think straight!!! It’s 21st Century not “ Zaman Batu”
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Malays can't stand PRC China style education, 8am - 9pm. Saturday is school day. No tuition outside, every parent extra fees for teachers overtime. Also, they recently ban outside extra tuition because some parents are too crazy. Those from Beijing/Tsinghua University are no joke, best of 1 billion people. Wuhan itself have over 1 million university student. Teachers are well respected profession in China.
Agong ,already said this cannot ,that cannot ,go stay n in.caves .
We must have
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Zaman Cave* .
Pas,UMNo ,etc leaders , members etc refuse to go n stay in caves
Well said, Mariam on how the government destroy the education system. It’s also true on other issues as well. All because the government championed the Malay Agenda at all cost. The ultimate fate sadly will be a failed country for all Malaysians to salvage upon 😓
Malaysian leaders were taught to chase the dollar signs.Rakyat were taught to work,sweat,struggle and died to survive.When leaders did wrong they were taught to escape punishment,but when rakyat did wrong they were taught to accept punishment..ministers son were all fluent in English because they were taught oversea..rakyat were taught YES and NO..and taught not to go over or above the head of the leaders.
My dear MM. I met a young lady who studied English programms ( i can't recall the programms' name)in higher learning university in Malaysia to teach English in secondary school. She can't even start a conversation about what she studied in proper grammar. How the hell the students will understand and learn from her teachings??? I was totally speechless and stopped the conversation in order not to embarass her further. Told her politely to listen to more BBC news and learn & understand the language & most importantly listen to the pronounciations of the words and practice it oftenly.
No problem.. We want Malay teachers in all the schools
@@yushigawa8610 Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
It is the case of the blind leading the blind in the public school system. And the parents unwittingly go along with it when they depend on these teachers (irrespective of race) to "enlighten" their children in school and, worse yet, in private tuition. A double whammy, if you ask me.
Why only to BBC? Is it because once upon a time the Brits were our masters? Come on give it a break, will you. With your comment above your standard of English must be well above that of the poor young lady's. But is it? Please take a moment and check it yourself!
Is "oftenly " an English word?
I have always enjoyed listening to you and the current one on Christmas celebration in Kilat Kelab touches my heart n soul as we grew up in LLN quarters within the Kilat Kelab. Yes, during Christmas it was a great joy n happiness full of eagerness we children all 8 of us would run down to Kilat Kelab for this celebration. Just like our family many other children would join, Malays n Chinese. We would get not only gifts but sweets, chocolates n cakes. It was so beautiful. Friends n neighbours would all visit each others houses. No issues of whether one had used a separate utensils or whether it was halal , whatever not. Similarly, when non Muslims visits Raya houses no issues of whether the utensils as well. How sad our beloved country has made to become today.
I'm commenting without watching the whole video. This only my view about our education system. Tbh the problem not only on English but almost every subject. Over the year I've seen many parents posted a picture of how ridiculous the question is. For example not long ago I saw a post from a friend showing a page from bhs melayu book and the question was to name our national car. It doesn't make sense at all to ask a primary school student to name our Malaysian national car in bhs melayu subject. We really need to stop this. Malaysian politics and the politicians are screwing with our education system for their own interests. They want a 'yes man' citizen not a smart one. They want you to be stupid enough to listen, to follow and depend on them, not smart enough to question them and go against them.
Thank you Mariam...May eyes be opened through your insights and thoughts on the dire situation that is now gripping our beloved country.
Bravo Madam
Appreciate yr courage. Truth is hard to stomach.
I would like to share an experience here Mariam... I interviewed a fresh local graduate back in 1997 from the South where he applied for an Administrative position. He could hardly converse a sentence without making a grammatical mistake.
Working in a Japanese construction company, we in the Admin Dept had to practically handle A-Z apart from technical matters. When he asked about his potential job scope, I gestly replied.. "basically anything and everything under the sun, apart from technical matters"... he paused, looked worried and then replied, "then I'm not interested in the job"... my obvious response and curiosity was, why?
He replied... "under sun, very hot"... 🤦♂️
That was when I really questioned the English standard of most our local graduates, "thanks" to our education system to be where we are today.
Goodluck
Hilarious
I beg to digress:-
Even though I speak and write English up to reasonable level (and I also speak smutteringly and read in other language with cyrilic alphabets) I will still decline this job. Why?
Your "gestly" saying "anything" under the sun if accepted can be used as a weapon to abuse of worker.
And (who knows) he might have also answered your suggestion "jestly"
I may be wrong ..... sorry
LOL!
That's the sad state of our education system and I personally do not see it's going to improve moving forward unless the government makes radical changes to our present education system.
Spot on, Madam.
During my primary school in Alor Setar in 1970, most of the Malay parents sent their children to English medium school namely SR Tunku Abdul Halim, SR Iskandar and even Convent school. Wan Azizah was also studying in Nicholas Convent in early days. The English medium school are always full because the Malay parents will always rush to queue up and make sure their children got a place in the English medium school. Then there was a nearby Malay medium school SRJK Kanchut which was always empty with less than 50 student registering each year. Even the Malay in the kampung villages would rather wake up very early to send their children to English medium school in the city centre every day.
Then came along our new politician Dr Mahathir starting to translate Maths and Science subjects to Bahasa in the 70s and later totally abolished the English medium school to strengthen their political foothold. I can remember those days the Malays speak better English than the Chinese because most Chinese are studying in Vernacular Chinese school. I recalled later that Mahathir try to convert back at least the Maths and Science subjects into English but the damage was already done. And the latest episode of new politician minister abusing our education system was during Muhyiddin's time as education minister who ensure that English should not be widely used by converting back the Maths and Science subjects to Bahasa. Then this is the end of the story when our 'Cash is King' champion would rather spend hundreds of millions for our teachers to start learning English rather than our student to learn English.
Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
bodoh case.
Well said... I am so
impressed.
Hi Mariam, Really like your videos addressing the problems that Malaysia has! I want to suggest putting your patreon links and maybe other social media platforms if you use any in the description so it's easier for us to support your work!
I'm a 22 year old Malaysian that has been noticing the problems in the education system since I was 15. When I was in highschool I dread by the fact that these teachers are only teaching us things so we could pass our exams and not teach us the things that are actually useful for our future. I am glad my parents let me grow up playing games and using the internet as that was the way I learned my English and never once did I thought my ability to speak, read and write the language was because of school.
Saya suka bercakap dalam Bahasa Malaysia tapi apa yang cik Mariam kata tu betul. Bahasa Inggeris ni membuka pintu ke banyak topik pembelajaran. Cuba korang google satu benda dalam Bahasa Melayu, pastu cuba dalam bahasa Inggeris, kalau korang perasan lagi banyak benda awak boleh cari dalam bahasa inggeris.
Again, love your work Mariam and I hope for a better future for Malaysia!
Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
Puan Mariam. let me share my story about how I learn and equip myself with English proficiency
1. My dad was an English teacher so he created a culture at home and speak English with us kids.
2. Then I studied at a religious school the SMKA type and was surrounded by friends who were not keen to learn English. But I don't care I had a long-term ambitions so I asked money from dad and subscribed English newspapers The Star on daily basis because that's the best way I learnt English, by reading news.
3. And my own efforst works. I scored A1 in SPM English and was awarded the best student.
4. I was successful in creating my own environment and system, despite of my surroundings.
5. I didn't blame my friends or school or teachers.
6. Today I am among the best high flyers and high income earners among my friends same batch, all because of my English proficiency I can work anywhere.
Alhamdulillah
English proficiency will get you going places. BM can get you no where. This is a fact.
The mastery of English in our schools began to decline after 1970s. Most of the students now cannot differentiate desert and dessert! What the heck!
I was so lucky to learn the English language in the 70s. After that all subject are in BM.
Yes, absolutely true to destroy a nation, the government can just mess up the education system. On the contrary, there is a saying by Nelson Mandela "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world". With the current deplorable state of our education system, Malaysia is sliding backwards. The education system is aligned with too much of political agenda which does not promote critical thinking skills, one of the important skills in this era.
Very true, Ma'am. I was well aware of this while I was still at school. Thankfully, my dad was fully aware too and made sure we were well-versed and fluent in the English language. He never quit reminding us how important it was for our future that we mastered our command in English Language. We were learning primary level English at Secondary School and still some of these idiots could still have problem getting even a simple pass in the exam. I wonder even how they got that pass, going by their performance during classroom sessions itself..
GOOD MORNING SISTER..TAKE CARE ..WE MALAYSIAN NEED U..ALL GOD BLESS U...
TKS to highlighted MM. is it true our English spoken has decline very very badly....
I was standard 1 in 1974 it's English school New type primary Ashby Road school Ipoh in 1975 it's changed to sekolah rendah Sri Kinta Ipoh in the years studied l m abel to learn English because All the teachers are English educated then . Puan 100% right 👍
Malaysia have declined in other areas as well. Didn't we used to be one of the well off countries in Asia, ahead of Singapore, South Korea, China? Our football team was the best in Asia. Now our football ranking is at the bottom of the league table. Apa dah jadi?
Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
Degradation and mediocrity.
Annie, "we used to be". Thanks to who?
inward looking 2 protect a few extremes self -interests...silly men
From the more and more simplified versions of the chosen literature books to the constant lowering of the demands of the exam questions to the more and more lenient marking to the politically-maneouvring of mark allocation (eg. from total 250 marks or so translated to 100% as final score) and to the downgrading of the grading system (eg. 68% is an A-) amongst other thinly-veiled factors.
Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
Even in marking SPM papers there is double standards non malay students suffer the most on markings
Nope..The double standard marking makes non-Malay studied even harder than the Malay! Because of this, majority non-Malay opt out of national education system! So the loser were the Malay not non-Malay!
Because of one man race base policy and his selfish political agenda.. Malaysia are now a third world country confirm... now its too late for any salvation...kudos for his actions and those who follow his propaganda...
Grammatical mistakes...sorry to say you are the product of the present education system.
@@leekimhar8223 - be kind as KEn tried his best. Appreciate all positive contributions. Thank you too, Lee. Cheers.
"Too late for salvation." So sad but true. Yes, no bombs needed, he just left his shit.
Indeed, Kudos to the brave Mariam Mokhtar for her immense efforts. 💐We Thank You!!! Our nation in dire straits ...
"His policies were responsible for the decline in English. Wanted to stamp his mark in politics by pushing his agenda. At the expense of our education system." Malicious M. 👹 Ribuan Terima Kasih to our Most Distinguished Mariam Mokhtar!
Woman of substance! I wish that this video will help the parents & their children to at least understand what's happening! So sad!
Agree on point raised. When govt abolish english teaching in Math and Science, that is the national english standard reverse gear start.
Agree.
@Tranquility TenThousand it all started when English is not a subjects to pass, from than on LoL it was all the way to the drain, rivers and now right in the middle of the sea
@@razakahmad4086 Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
My primary school English teacher back in 1983 was a Malay lady. Her command of English is excellent. As years goes by the newer younger generation teacher had lower standard of teaching.
Without good English communication difficult to go far unless you are only doing business in Malaysia.
To be honest, English is an important tool of communication in the world and every country need it in order get connected with each other.
The English fluency crisis isn't a Malaysian exclusive one. Even countries like Japan and China and other Spanish speaking countries have this kind of problem too.
Doing business in Malaysia also need English and etc Being multi language will gives you a lot's of edges in the business world! Become a civil servant is the only option available if can't communicate in English!
@@Chingaez Countries like Japan, China and Thailand are implementing English into their school curriculum nowadays! In Malaysia we trying to remove English, Chinese and etc......
@@ChowYewLoon Well, for Japan and Thailand, I can understand. For China though, especially the CCP, I don't trust 'em because from what I know from some sources, CCP is about to squash English teachers too.
Also, for Malaysian government trying to eradicating other languages like English and Chinese and Tamil and some say Portuguese, isn't THAT defeat the purpose of Malaysia being a multi-lingual country? I can understand the lamentations.
@@Chingaez what do you mean squash the English teacher? Bear in mind some of the teachers are working for CIA. Look at HK, they trained them to be rioters. I worked in China before and I know some of the foreigner teachers and they are happy in China till today.
I was the rare Malaysian where school subjects were still taught in English language in the 70s. I found it so interesting and 'expensive' during those school days as though I was in the international school of today.
Once I helped a foreigner at National Library because the receptionist only able to speak BM. I still remember his laugh.
Thank You Well Said Puan Mariam , Ths Sad How The Goverment Destroy Our Education System
Very true that high quality education is a key to building a prosperous nation but need to adopt meritocracy system.
Meritocracy is a myth, my friend. It puts the poor at a disadvantage.
@@PassionPno Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
@@leealex24 Stop copying and pasting the same bloody comment everywhere and actually read what people are commenting on.
Love all your mild sarcasm humors in all your videos.
I did teach English in s private school. The classes I taught were standard 1 to form 1. The syllabus was poor with feeling in blanks with adjectives or correct forms of verbs
I even helped the Form 5 teacher who had a degree from UM it was a section about ticking the correct adjecitive. I am trained Western music trained teacher.. but my father bought us lots of English books..
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I have the same experience as her. My Malay friends of 30 yrs have over the years become more and more intolerant. The culture of Ketuanan had gone into their heads. One of them actually told me he can take over my "business" any time he likes. I asked him how. His reply was: Ketuanan policy enable him to do so. I suspect this is the ultimate aim of the ketuanan policy is to nationalise Chinese assets and give it to Malays. My belief is that this is what Mamak intends to do but the rise of China has put a stop to it.
Well said 👏
Very very well said ma'am 👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤
Hi Mariam,
Well done.. a great video depicting the true reasons for the deplorable standard of English in Malaysia.
Just to share my own observations:
1. Children fr English speaking families would sometimes laugh at the school English teachers’ grammar. Substandard English teachers will spawn substandard English speaking students. It’s like the blind leading the blind.
2. Some so-called high ranking educated personnels like to rattle on their speeches n enjoy throwing in some English words without being able to actually speak English with complete grammatically correct sentences.
Does doing that reflect that they are of an elevated breed n status of educated individuals?
Continue doing your eye-opening videos. Love them.
Truth hurts, but many politicians in Malaysia are so thick-skinned! Its the civil society that has to rise to the challenge.
yes, yes,yes. I observed my schoolmates and my varsity friends failed to present their graduation research result in good english during that era of MM reign.
Some of them murmured on stage, I nearly could not withhold my laughter. 🤣
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Mariam is doing a great job. Waking people up out of ignorance . Global worldview and mindset.
Politicians praise the national language and government schools, BU....UUT they send their children to international schools locally or abroad for education. Cakap tak sama dengan apa yang dilakukan. When I was in school years ago, my malay classmates spoke to me in English and I spoke to them in BM. It was a win-win situation. They wanted to improve English and I needed to learn BM.
Film 'Singapura Di Langgar Todak' menjadi contoh terbaik bagi Negara Malaysia masakini.
Absolutely Brilliant !!
This is because at that time, with "Impeccable" hindsight, Tun UTurn Doctor Musang Pembelit whom was the Education Minister and then to be the Pembelit Malaysia (PM) for 22 years, wanted Malaysians to learn URDU to be closer to the Country he looks up to, i.e. Pakistan lor!!!
Yeah i agree i was born in the fiftys i studied in english school our history books were about the world now our kids dont even know whats the capital city of countries and the same goes to other subjects the education level and standards of those days and nowdays varies alot hmm what can we do now by just looking at the fate of our younger generation i only studied a normal secondary education level lets see whats going to happen🤐
I salute Puan Mariam as The Sage of New Malaysia 2023!!!
Even after 1977...there were so many malays enroled in Catholic schools thinking that they will master the language as there were chinese & indian students so that the malay students would converse with other students of other race...and still they would not even try....so sad...its their lost...
Just implement English medium schools with availability of mother tongues like Singapore. This would elevate the standards of English and competitiveness in the marketplace. Hawkers of all ethnicities in Singapore speak fluent English whilst Malaysian graduates struggle.
If Malaysia implement speaking like Singapore? The extremisme Malay will Burn Your house, because you Anti Islam, anti Melayu!!! But the Open Malay? The are totally different, they are open minded, they will to accept different opinion. They are Hungry to learn New Thinga to improve themself to connect to the world.
@@newcastleupontyne8682 If the Malays want to learn and speak only Malay, they can go ahead with their fake belief. The non-Malays in Malaysia will continue to learn/speak many other languages including having learned Malay.
Malaysia have 2 type of Malay, (1) extremist(2) open minded Malay. It depends who you want to Friend to . Unfortunately in our country, the extremist malay are Controling the Government. Why Malaysia Fall back every year? Because the extremist are managing the Country! And most extremist are come from Kampong! They have short mind,they are Dinasaur, and they Never see and never heard of Non Malay existed in this Country. That’s why, they never know how to respect the Right of non Malay in this country.
@@newcastleupontyne8682 Makes sense. If the Malays continue to believe that, they are the one who will stand to lose the most because they can't even speak/learn another language whilst 99.9% of the knowledge in the world are in key languages such as English, German, Chinese etc. That's a fact. If you don't want to believe that, then, you can leave the world.
@@leealex24 yes, that’s why Non Malay are far advance that Malay in Malaysia. They are more educated that the Malay, they are open minded, because of this, the non Malay will become Richer that Malay . That’s why the Malay are getting poorer and poorer, and never stop asking Help from government. Most unfortunately ; the Malay still don’t know why they are Poor!!!
True! Its all about controlling the rakyat and the politician 's disloyalty and uncaring attitude towards our country, Malaysia ! Sad!
Very sad state of affairs and we from the sixties feel humiliated that politicians are mostly illiterate in English and do not acknowledge the importance of it as a global communications tool!!Without quality education, the next generations future is very bleak
The most important jobs are not given to the best people, the most complex job is not given to the most experienced person, the most difficult job is not given most knowledgeable person, the most important things are not given attention, the most superficial things are given priority, it is know not what u know but who u know which determines your success in ..........
You are undoubtedly the Best!
Malaysia is the fastest regressive country in ASEAN. One more for our Malaysia Book of Records..
We need a crash landing before we can rebuild the coountry.
@@mycomsolutions The majority of the Malays in Malaysia has a very odd mindset. They have golden opportunity to learn/speak another language which is a very important language yet they reluctant. China with population of 1.5bil people excluding even the Chinese diaspora overseas have learned and spoken English fluently because they're know the importance. Mind you, China is the 2nd largest economy in the world and soon will be the largest yet they know the importance of English despite Mandarin and Cantonese being very important but still learned it. What more the Malays?
@@mycomsolutions We have had many crash landings before and no rectification steps was ever aken. Not before, not now and not ever. 60 years of racial division and with the apartheid policy and mentality embedded into the country's constitution and I'm almost certain that any effort may deem fertile now and ever. Stand aside and witness the abomination of this country and its people. Stupidity has no cure.
Its saddening to see they reverted back STEM subjects in primary and secondary schools being taught in malay.
True, as what you mentioned, many parents in Johore are sending their children to Singapore for better education. This is a fact.
Sadly many ministers has poor command of English.
Berseh m"sia...ambiga senivasan...banta rashua team.majukan m"sia...
Rightfully mentioned.
This really correct 👏
Dei ! DSAI yg mess-up the power of English by introducing ’Bahasa Baku’ !
Controlled the development of English hence, the Malays became the top victim. Today there are Prof Kangkongs
Was’salam
That's why dsai is not good candidate for next pm
Yes i agree with Madam Mariam most of our malaysian student cant well versed in English. We are behind in language
It started abolish the first two history and geography in to bahasa in 1979.
The English spoken by Zaed is known as the Ponorogo English ala Java. This is his latest version.
When I was young our Malaysian English was I think better then what the British themselves spoke because they learned it as their mother tongue. We learned it formally in school so we learned it properly. True we speak Minglish. But it was still bolih tahan. I can't say much because RUclips will censor me.
let's make her PRIME MINISTER>>>or education minister...she is english elite n can hold herself in debates internationally ...spore will need her as a citizen 2 teach english 2 sg....she is not appreciated in marysia.....
Sadly those who are qualified usually do not desire to be in positions of power.
Agree.
We can see what happen to our menteri. Can't speak Inggeris when represent Malaysia. We cakap bahasa ibonda when we talking to someone with same language not in the international forum.
when we speak Inggeris,they just criticism, ini Malaysia, cakap B.Melayu.
we can speak any language we want to communicate.
President Najib Ab Razak? Didn’t know that Malaysia had become a Republic.
it is the great racial divide... hinese-koreans-japanese forced their kids 2 learn with tution n extra schooling in ENGLISH...malays is ok with malay...read the koran n sing it out load...johor chinese families send their kids as young as 11 years old to singapore daily 2 learn english... sg has the BEST education system praised by the west...won prizes, spelling bees n stands out as a beacon of light to seek information n communication.. malay just keep 2 themselves...
To control a country citizen, you must have obedient citizen. To do that, educate them with low quality education. They lower the English grade and made all subject in bahasa malaysia. But their children are send abroad. When the people are stupid then easy for them to manipulate and corrupt the country.
It true, my grandfather speak english well more than me, In his childhood growing up in school, The British rule the country and left.
Very true. May God Save Us All.
I am as a Malaysian retiree whose English proficiency is higher than most Singaporean at large. But I hope I would be able to serve my country to raise the bar of our younger generation
u dreaming ??? lky is a fine example 4 u 2 copy
Racist education system of Msia is the main cause. I remember a young scarf clad teacher who is an English optionist started her class... Good morning... Buka. Mukasurat. Omg
Mariam, u re very inspiring keep it up..👌
Until about 1963 only about 10% of school-going children were educated in English up to Primary School level and only 5% up to secondary school level and probably 1% at higher levels. The majority were educated in the vernaculer languages or remained illeterate. Among the Malays, education for the vast majority stopped at primary school level. This situation existed until about 1967 and education in English deteriorated once Malay replaced it as the medium of instruction at the secondary level.
Teacher training was first done in-situ ( at the work place) for the English medium schools and later also at two colleges in England and one in Penang. Two or three colleges catered for Malay primary school teacher training. At the Penang college at least until 1965 only about 10% of trainee intake were Malays. The British provided education in English to the few they needed to satisfy the administrative, commercial and plantation needs then. Professionals were mainly recruited from the home country.
The level of English taught as a second or third language cannot replace the standard you obtain in classes which are taught entirely in English. The Education Ministry should utilise all available educational technology and methodology to remedy the situation short of the monumental task and massive cost of having all education delivered in English .
I have seen this happen in the GH...STAFF NURSE cant speak english...most of the time they will reply when you speak english to them is...."ini malaysia...cakap melayu"...even that reply is wrong..in bahasa..😆😆😆
Hahahaha tak reti cakap bahasa kebangsaan
Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
@@danialloomberg954 Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
Dah duduk kat Malaysia,lahir pun kat Malaysia cakap la bahasa melayu.gigih pula mengata nurse tak pandai cakap English,padahal engkau tu yang tak reti cakap Melayu.shame on you.
What have you said is very true
Mariam, English education was destroyed by Ketuanans from UMNO BARU. Today school leavers holding diplomas and degrees are unable to be employed in the private sector because of their lack in English. Its a sorry state yet the Ketuanans keep complaining private sectors are not employing Malays due to racism.
Our govt system is like leaking water tank and we have wasted time on silly matters and have alot catch-up. Todate no strategy policies to move the country forward.
You go to a government hospital you will have to be good in Bahasa Malaysia or else many young Doctors or nurses there could not easily communicate with you. Communicating in English in a government hospital could be a problem unless you talk to a senior Doctor/nurse.
Some malay young doctors don't even know what is running nose
My brother works at a government hospital and he's fluent in 5 languages.
@@lrc3661 Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
@@PassionPno Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
One example....."interesting please PM"
The govt employed too large a ratio of bumi teachers and the decline started in the standard of education and also the decline of english.nowadays you will find very few chinese and indian teachers in schools.
Went to talk to a school Counselor once. Sure she ‘flip her scarf’ confidently, overzealous as though parents are ignorant & uneducated. Until she start babbling nonsense, myohmymalaysia!
To keep them poor you must keep them stupid. Simple eh
Malaysia is going down the hill .
English opens a bigger world to you;
It will expand your mind, enlarge your view.
To learn English one needs to take some interest. Sadly some still refer to English as bahasa penjajah. Look at the world around us. It's always an added advantage to read ,write and speak in language in order to gain knowledge which is mostly in English. Politicians here know a good command of English isn't too good for their ' rice bowl ' Not many people like Mariam are there to help make a change but we have to start somewhere. The ministry can spend millions, billions but at the end of the day we need to ask who actually benefited. Bahasa Melayu is the official language as enshrined in the constitution, no one questions the position of Bahasa Melayu .
40 tahun lepas, sekolah Convent & kebangsaan bertutur dlm bahasa English. Kini dah tak ada lagi. TM fasih berbahasa English, tapi dia halang rakyat biasa maju dlm B. English.
Now our MSM uses 4 people & no longer use 4 person... I'm confused.
Now some of the so call Malay words I hv never heard b4 , like Jom etc. Think they are nepali word.
As long as the public is not able to fully understand any conversation than they are easier to be control & to tell them stories.
Better improve your English.
"4 persons" is archaic. Modern English is "4 people."
@@leekimhar8223 Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
@@PassionPno Speaking English and ensuring an environment where people also speak English or even other languages such as Chinese makes the country more international and competitive. The fact is Malay is spoken predominantly 60% of Malaysian population and perhaps, Indonesia hence, it's very insignificant compared to the world population. Additionally, every knowledge that you can find in the world now is in English and moving forward, Chinese as well.
Di universiti sains Malaysia ada seorang pensyarah mentaliti UMNO dia ditugaskan mengajar computer networking hanya modul ini saja dlm english , 50 modul pelbagai subjek computer hampir semua modul computer dlm BM tapi dlm kelas saya kebanyakan student melayu tak nak belajar dlm english walau satu subjek pun, pensyarah itu pun tak fasih english maka dia pun bawa buku penterjemahan BM "Rangkaian komputer, ada seorang student Cina pertikai cadangan pensyarah katanya kita sudah belajar hampir 45 subjek dlm BM kenapa tidak kita teruskan subject ini dlm English kerana terminologi Networking amat janggal dlm BM , pensyarah itu marah student Cina itu sampai bangkitkan isu agama dan personal insult dan semua pelajar melayu setuju belajar dlm BM saja, kecuali saya dan student Cina keluar dari kelas membantah keputusan Majoriti itu.Inilah mentaliti orang melayu di Malaysia sehingga menteri melayu tak fasih English.
China with population of 1.5bil people excluding even the Chinese diaspora overseas have learned and spoken English fluently because they're know the importance. Mind you, China is the 2nd largest economy in the world and soon will be the largest yet they know the importance of English and have learned it. What more the Malays?
How can we improve the standard of our education when those who opt to become teachers....do so only because they are not qualified to study law, engineering, architecture, accounting, economics, etc. SPM pun cukup makan, the only way out is maktab perguruan.
Salam Kak smga sht sjhtera
Malaysia educational policy harms the growth of the language barrier today. The terms have to return to the world dialect English again for us our locals to be fluent with the language.
The old man knows what he's doing in that he wants the rakyat to b stupid n depended on the govt so he can do whatever he likes without opposition from the massess.
Well said mam.
The ugly side of national patriotic mindset. The negative effects of. Fallacious racism , the ethnic mindset ,diving the people and impeding the interaction of the various communities , no sharing of genomic memory. All half baked narrow minded politics. So who benefits? Those who studied English spoke English and and studied overseas . Solve the problem , mandatory National language and English as the intentional language. Otherwise they will lose out and become less competitive.
The English language died when the British sent a school teacher to teach English way back in history in Perak I think for the Malays very sad.