{"id":12994,"date":"2010-05-25T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=12994"},"modified":"2010-05-25T11:12:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T00:12:49","slug":"english-as-a-second-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=12994","title":{"rendered":"English as a second Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A long time ago (January 1993), in China, Barbra, who taught English as a second language \u00a0at RMIT, said that I spoke English like and advanced chinese student who spoke English as a second language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">For a long time this caused me very great difficulty. I mean it raised the question of whey was my first language? I mean I tried Chinese as my first language, but that never worked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It always thought that maybe it was the version of English I spoke. I had been back to Singapore, but at the time had not been pondering such issues. I thought it was maybe it was because I spoke English (foot-a-scary). That was the best fit, but still did not really explain it. I wondered if it was because I made the same mistakes my father made as a chinese speaker of English. That made the most sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It was not until I went to Malaysia that it all came together. My current theory is this.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>First language &#8211; English (chinese\/Malaysian)<\/li>\n<li>Second language &#8211; Chinese (Chinese\/Malaysian &#8211; that is a mix of Mandarin, Hokkien and Cantonese.)<\/li>\n<li>Third language -English (Australian -particularly country NSW and western Melbourne)<\/li>\n<li>Forth language -Chinese (mandarin)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">My second language was what I learned until I was six, do it is improperly developed, contains multiple dialects and gets in the way all the time. It is the language I revert to when I am being emotional because I am sad and I am very tired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The english in australia is complicated as it is a mix of my mothers family&#8217;s English which is country NSW english, the English of the migrants of western melbourne and the English of the Australians of western Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago (January 1993), in China, Barbra, who taught English as a second language \u00a0at RMIT, said that[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[663,776,1259,1276,1724,2051,2213,2563],"class_list":["post-12994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-langauge-ramblings","tag-cantonese","tag-chinese","tag-english","tag-esl","tag-hokkien","tag-language","tag-mandarin","tag-nsw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}