When people at Work …ask
“Where did you learn your English?”
I did go through a course for General English. For 2 years. From Intermediate ’till Advance level. I remember my essay that got me through the last exam to finish Advance level was titled “Bridging the Generation Gap”. It was written based on personal experience and my analysis on how youngsters tend to have lack of respect with their elders whilst most of senior citizens judge that youngsters nowadays have no strong values for traditions. It was quite a nice essay I suppose. :). I mean compare with craps that I wrote in my blog. Hahaha. When I showed my supervisor at my first workplace she was a little bit … did not believe that I wrote that. She said … the brain did not match the package. But after that she is my perfectionist-friendly-bitch boss. She is my great mentor.
And I didnt say my English is good. I didn’t say that at all. But why I often write in English and always use English to talk whenever I get the chance to challenge my English ability is because … I fell in love with the language. Yeah, I love English language. I remembered I was 3 when I heard my first English language. It was “the hills are alive with the sound of music”. Yeah, It was “the sound of the music” movie. I know … weird isn’t it? Plus I went to catholic preschool and kindergarten … and my teachers and sisters there often challenged my English. There’s this one teacher named Ibu Tris whom always greeted me and chat with me in English. Then I become … addicted. Always try to find the meaning of every English word I heard from TV or someone or found it in the paper.
Of course it costs me something. Most of my Indonesian friends always said … “Prita, we’re not in LA. Stop it. Stop talking in English. And stop the goddamn accent!!!!!”
I am more to American accent than Brit. At first. But now … kinda changed. I mean I’ve been with my British boss for almost 3 years. He succeeded to influence me … that along the time British accent is quite nice. And don’t forget Australian accent is annoyingly sexy. For some part.
