Comments on: Adopt English as country’s second official language http://www.zulhaidah.com/?p=3218 Parti KEADILAN Rakyat - Sibuti - Miri Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:54:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Zelivan Inc http://www.zulhaidah.com/?p=3218&cpage=1#comment-17 Zelivan Inc Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:51:09 +0000 http://zulhaidah.com/?p=3218#comment-17 Don't be kidding, English should be the first official language in Sabah and Sarawak. BM comes second, Malaya manipulate the fact. It is clearly state in 20 agreement (Sabah) and 18 agreement (Sarawak) as : “Malay should be the national language of the Federation. English should be an official language of North Borneo for all purposes, State or Federal, without limitation of time.” BM is not an interesting language at all and does not benefit us anywhere except Msia. Sabah and Sarawak must have their own education system and implement english as a main subject. Don't you see we are being manipulated and cheated by Malaya? We believed and taught in school that Malaysia consist of 13 states. It's not true. It's a big liar. Malaysia only have 3 states in it. Malaya (or Tanah Melayu), Sabah and Sarawak. But what the heck, they converted all the major towns in west malaysia to become state. So, we too must claim all major town in Sabah & Sarawak become state and each state must have their own chief minister. Don’t be kidding, English should be the first official language in Sabah and Sarawak. BM comes second, Malaya manipulate the fact. It is clearly state in 20 agreement (Sabah) and 18 agreement (Sarawak) as : “Malay should be the national language of the Federation. English should be an official language of North Borneo for all purposes, State or Federal, without limitation of time.”

BM is not an interesting language at all and does not benefit us anywhere except Msia. Sabah and Sarawak must have their own education system and implement english as a main subject.

Don’t you see we are being manipulated and cheated by Malaya? We believed and taught in school that Malaysia consist of 13 states. It’s not true. It’s a big liar. Malaysia only have 3 states in it. Malaya (or Tanah Melayu), Sabah and Sarawak. But what the heck, they converted all the major towns in west malaysia to become state. So, we too must claim all major town in Sabah & Sarawak become state and each state must have their own chief minister.

]]> By: Ayabush Kahmar http://www.zulhaidah.com/?p=3218&cpage=1#comment-16 Ayabush Kahmar Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:42:22 +0000 http://zulhaidah.com/?p=3218#comment-16 The English language maybe very important to us The English language maybe very important to us

]]> By: francis ngu http://www.zulhaidah.com/?p=3218&cpage=1#comment-15 francis ngu Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:07:57 +0000 http://zulhaidah.com/?p=3218#comment-15 Without a review of our State and National language policy, we are certain to continue in our slide in global competitiveness. A good example of pragmatic language policy is Brunei Darulsalaam, which teaches about half of its school subjects in English. Any foreigner coming to visit Brunei can communicate with people in the Kampungs in English, as I found out myself. In doing so, Brunei has not in any way lost its proud Malay Muslim identity. They who govern Sultanate seem to have more wisdom than the people in power at PetraJaya and PutraJaya. Without a review of our State and National language policy, we are certain to continue in our slide in global competitiveness.

A good example of pragmatic language policy is Brunei Darulsalaam, which teaches about half of its school subjects in English. Any foreigner coming to visit Brunei can communicate with people in the Kampungs in English, as I found out myself.

In doing so, Brunei has not in any way lost its proud Malay Muslim identity. They who govern Sultanate seem to have more wisdom than the people in power at PetraJaya and PutraJaya.

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