Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigerian Petroleum Minister, recently about to push for a petroleum reform bill to help with oil corruption in the country. In a recent interview i just saw, i found her to be terribly eloquent. i can't find the full interview...but she sounds like she was educated in the UK. sitting in traditional female nigerian attire and peering above the reading glasses at the tip of her nose, she smoothly discusses the issues of oil and corruption in nigeria. of course she's a great global politician cuz it's people like her...who draft the bill...handle corruption scandals in stride, that are the ones at the root of the the issue....
anyways, as i listened to her english delivery, i got jealous because my english grammar has been suffering greatly as of late. i'm just not conjugating verbs correctly. plurals, past tenses, basic stuff that can be fixed by living or assimilating in better english speaking environments...(reading helps to a certain degree)...i'm continually seconding guessing my 카톡 conversations and finding myself jammed up mid sentence, mid story. really annoying.
what i've been good at is learning my neighboring surroundings and applying the authentic words to my vocabulary. almost completely replacing it's english counterpart. i find i do that with chinese dialects as well. it's a good thing i'm sure. tho i do wish i could speak english more eloquently. smoother. better modifiers. i think it's the topics of choice too....hmmm.
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