Yesterday I went to Britzone Wednesday discussion. I just got little bored at work so I decided to go there to relieve it ;)
Surprisingly, we had a native speaker. His name is Mathew, an Australian. He resembles Tobey Maguire, do you know Petter Parker? the main character in Spiderman 4 Movie??. yeahh…, Tobey Maguire is the actor who played as Peter Parker, Quite handsome rite?? ;). He’s been in Jakarta for 3 months. The way he spoke is actually really like Australian dialect, you know how actually Australian speak?. It’s worse than Americans do. They have so many slang words that are not British’s or American’s. But yesterday, because he spoke with us, who are not English native, even still in learning stage, he spoke slowly and clearly, therefore we could understand any single words he uttered.
After introducing himself, he let us to raise questions. Actually I had pile of questions in my mind, but I only got a chance to question him, as my friends also responded him enthusiastically. At that chance I asked him, about Indonesian work culture according to his point of view, because he works with many Indonesian. He answered in ‘chit chat’ way, like Indonesians do ;) that Indonesian is nice, but something that make me take a notice, is he told us when someday he went to an Indonesian government institution, he was surprised when he found there’s a TV set on the office. He told us that it’s not common in Australia to work while watching TV. He also told us that the work ethic is a principle in Christian teaching, the religion adhered by the most Australian. This statement quite shamed me. You know that Islam is more strictly teach us about the work ethic but we can see, just few of us (Indonesian Muslims) practice it, rite??
Some of my friends questioned him, some political matters made by Australian government, such as the support to the separatist group in Papua, also some Australian government policies toward Indonesian employees in Australia. But he seemed so awkward to answer such matters, because he is not Australian government employee. but he gave us a brief explanation that Australia is a Free nation, where everyone may express their idea freely, liberalism really finds its peak, and sometimes in the name of Human Right they legalize their actions against other’s sovereignty. There’s a funny thing when one of my friends asked him about Australian National Anthem and he couldn’t answer, he even didn’t know his national anthem (??) What a ‘nationalist’. ;)
Surprisingly, we had a native speaker. His name is Mathew, an Australian. He resembles Tobey Maguire, do you know Petter Parker? the main character in Spiderman 4 Movie??. yeahh…, Tobey Maguire is the actor who played as Peter Parker, Quite handsome rite?? ;). He’s been in Jakarta for 3 months. The way he spoke is actually really like Australian dialect, you know how actually Australian speak?. It’s worse than Americans do. They have so many slang words that are not British’s or American’s. But yesterday, because he spoke with us, who are not English native, even still in learning stage, he spoke slowly and clearly, therefore we could understand any single words he uttered.
After introducing himself, he let us to raise questions. Actually I had pile of questions in my mind, but I only got a chance to question him, as my friends also responded him enthusiastically. At that chance I asked him, about Indonesian work culture according to his point of view, because he works with many Indonesian. He answered in ‘chit chat’ way, like Indonesians do ;) that Indonesian is nice, but something that make me take a notice, is he told us when someday he went to an Indonesian government institution, he was surprised when he found there’s a TV set on the office. He told us that it’s not common in Australia to work while watching TV. He also told us that the work ethic is a principle in Christian teaching, the religion adhered by the most Australian. This statement quite shamed me. You know that Islam is more strictly teach us about the work ethic but we can see, just few of us (Indonesian Muslims) practice it, rite??
Some of my friends questioned him, some political matters made by Australian government, such as the support to the separatist group in Papua, also some Australian government policies toward Indonesian employees in Australia. But he seemed so awkward to answer such matters, because he is not Australian government employee. but he gave us a brief explanation that Australia is a Free nation, where everyone may express their idea freely, liberalism really finds its peak, and sometimes in the name of Human Right they legalize their actions against other’s sovereignty. There’s a funny thing when one of my friends asked him about Australian National Anthem and he couldn’t answer, he even didn’t know his national anthem (??) What a ‘nationalist’. ;)
We ‘interrogate’ him for around an hour; I like the way he spoke like any natives do. And I just got inspiration to work for foreign company, with foreign boss or foreign co-workers from whom I can learn their language and their positive culture. May be some other time ;)
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