Downgraded English

People say that studying abroad will improve your English. Yes, its supposed to happen that way and it did happened before to me. But recently I just feels like my English is not going anywhere. Probably caused by me talking less English with people, reading less and less English books (who am I kidding, I don't even read books from other languages!). So you ask how the heck do I not talk English often? I'm in the UK for crying out loud!

The place I'm staying now had nothing to do with this. Maybe a little bit but does not affect greatly. People I hang out with? DEFINITELY!

Since I mostly hang out with Malaysians, the language that we speak is mainly Mandarin+English+some other language including Malay. That's what makes us Malaysian. Even our language have to be added with that Malaysian flavour.

Speaking wise, I can say that my English usually ends with lots of -la, -bah, -lo, -ah, you name it, I say it. We all Malaysians do. Sometimes even lost of words to express what I wanna say because we usually "translate" what we wanna say from our mother tongue. Then we'll go like "erm..erm...how do you say this?" and then ask other friends "what the English word for this ah?".

The worst part is my writing. I can speak and understand some vocabulary no problem but my spelling is like a high school student who never paid attention in English class. I usually just right click the word that have red squiggly lines beneath it if I I'm using Microsoft words. Sometimes I even have to google the word in order to check my spelling. That's how bad my spelling goes. I lost confidence in it now T.T even if I spelled something correct I have to double check it with my teacher - google!

If my mom know that my English had been downgraded, she's gonna kill me.

Now I wanna go makan and have my dinner. Gonna make myself a nice sandwich ^^ So I'll just stop here. Somethings just never gonna change...