People often say that Malay is easy for Malaysians to learn, but it’s pretty impressive to see people from other countries speaking it so fluently!
@husnaliangliang, a journalist from China, has captured the hearts of many netizens, earning praise for her fluency in Malay across all of her TikTok videos.
The university is China’s first to offer a Malay language program
In one of her videos, she takes us through her visit to a university in Beijing, China, where she follows Ghina, a former student there, to study with first-year juniors who’ve only been learning Malay for 3 months.
Ghina shared that this university is actually the very first in China to offer a Malay language program, which was established back in 1962.
“The class we’re about to attend is being taught by a teacher named Dr. Nadia. All the students in the class are first-year students, and they’ve only been learning Bahasa Melayu for the past 3 months.”
Dr. Nadia began the class by asking simple Malay questions
In the video, Dr. Nadia kicked off the class with a warm-up session, asking the students some simple Malay questions, which the students would have to respond to in Malay.
Dr. Nadia also shared how her students often read Malay books to warm up before class, and she’s amazed by their initiative and dedication to learning the language.
Netizens flooded the comment section, expressing their amazement at the video.
“So fluent. Even people born in Malaysia aren’t this fluent.”
“You’re incredibly fluent in Malay. Well done.”
“Husna is on her way to becoming Malay.”
“Malaysia should have classes like this too.”
“That’s adorable. At my university, we have five students from China. We’e in our 1st year, and they’re already speaking a bit of Malay.”
“It must be so exciting to be Dr. Nadia.”
You can watch the full video down below:
@husnaliangliang Jom, berkuliah Bahasa Melayu di universiti pengajian bahasa tertinggi di China! Beijing Foreign Studies University merupakan universiti yang paling awal menawarkan jurusan Bahasa Melayu di China iaitu pada tahun 1962. Untuk episod ini, Husna akan mengikuti Ghina, sarjana dari BFSU untuk berkuliah dengan junior tahun satu yang baru belajar Bahasa Melayu selama tiga bulan sahaja. #cinacakapbahasa #husnaliang #penuturBahasaMelayudiChina #BFSU
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