The course covers: The pronunciation system, basic language patterns and essential vocabulary (words and phrases ) to achieve basic competence in listening, speaking, reading and writing skills; Study of dialogues and graded readings covering common and everyday practices aimed at providing some insight into Malay culture; Basic communication skills such as understanding and conveying simple messages and ideas through lessons on greetings and meeting people, telling of time, numerals, colours and nature; and Writing of postcards, e-mail and beginners’ composition in the form of paragraphs.
This course is tailored for new learners who do not have any prior knowledge of the Malay Language. A Placement test or interview is required for all students with a Malay parent, and all Malaysian and Indonesian students, including those whose parent(s) are Malaysian or Indonesian.
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The prof is really fun and classes are engaging. There might be quite a bit of vocab to memorise and grammar might not be intuitive but overall the assessments are manageable. Most assessments are after recess week. Just need to do your due diligence and consistently revise the content. Overall, this module is a fun and relatively easy module.
November 26, 2023 -
This is one of the more fun language mods. It is taught in english and the prof is quite fun. Since it is quite a common language, most people have a baseline knowledge of it already so you might have to put in extra effort if you do not plan on SU. Workload is minimal and there is no homework except for LAMS which take <10 mins, just have to revise the vocab for tests. Would highly recommend it.
December 12, 2022 -
Honestly quite a fun and chill mod if you are going to SU.
Quite easy to pass, just need to be consistent with doing the homework and make sure you can follow what the prof teaches in class. The written exams are passable as long as you did homework and are familiar with the words, but oral need to practice a bit.
Might be hard to do very well though because there will be people that already have experience.May 25, 2021
