Saturday, April 5, 2008

Common usage

For Malay language speakers speaking English can be confusing. Most Malay speakers use the phrase "Last time" as a period before the present. To native English speakers it means the last, for example, The last time I went to London was in 1996.

1 comment:

koumiete said...

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