Kepentingan Bahasa Kebangsaan

Dalam kerancakan penduduk jagat raya menari-nari bersama bayang-bayang pemodenan, kerajaan yang diumpamakan sebagai jantung negara mestilah menjalankan langkah proaktif bagi mengatasi setiap kemelut yang melanda negara kita. Seperti yang kita ketahui, slogan ‘Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa’ acap kali di wara-warakan di dada-dada akhbar, di corong-corong radio dan televisyen serta galakan daripada tokoh-tokoh terkemuka di negara kita sendiri. Namun begitu, masih ada lagi insan yang tidak menghargai bahasa kebangsaan sebaliknya mengagung-agungkan bahasa-bahasa lain terutama bahasa Inggeris dan sebagainya. Lantaran itu, setiap individu tidak sewajarnya memandang enteng terhadap perkara ini. Setiap pihak harus menggembleng tenaga dalam memartabatkan bahasa kebangsaan supaya bumi emas Malaysia dapat ‘duduk sama rendah, berdiri sama tinggi’ setaraf dengan negara-negara membangun yang lain. Bahasa kebangsaan mempunyai pelbagai kepentingan terutamanya kepada masyarakat pelbagai kaum, yang berbumbungkan langit yang sama, dan bertanahkan bumi Malaysia yang dahulunya dikenali sebagai Tanah Melayu. 

Pada zaman milenium ini, bahasa sudah biasa dijadikan sebagai cerucuk utama dalam melambangkan sesuatu bangsa dan negara. Bahasa merupakan satu simbolik perdana perdana dalam menentukan martabat bangsa dan negara. Bahasa kebangsaan iaitu bahasa Melayu dapat mengharumkan nama negara di seantero jagat ini. Sebagai contoh, ketika zaman Kesultanan Melayu Melaka, Tanah Melayu telah menjadi palabuhan entreport yang penting. Rentetan daripada itu, bahasa Melayu telah dijadikan bahasa perhubungan atau lingua franca di Asia Tenggara. Jelaslah di sini bahawa bahasa kebangsaan akan dipandang tinggi jika setiap rakyat berusaha menghargainya.

Tanpa kita sedari, bahasa kebangsaan dapat meningkatkan taraf ekonomi di negara kita. Dalam mendepani arus globalisasi, rakyat di negara kita sedang menggembleng tenaga bagi mencapai kecemerlangan dalam kehidupan. Jika semua kaum dapat menjalankan aktiviti ekonomi dengan menggunakan bahasa kebangsaan sebagai bahasa perantaraan, kita semua dapat bersatu untuk saling melengkapi. Masyarakat Melayu, Cina, dan India sentiasa berbincang dan bertukar fikiran tentang ekonomi dengan menggunakan satu bahasa. Justeru, setiap pihak akan jelas dan dapat merealisasikan matlamat negara kita iaitu untuk mencapai Wawasan 2020 yang berbaki lapan tahun lagi. Kita seharusnya bekerjasama persis peribahasa, ‘berat sama dipikul, ringan sama dijinjing’, namun begitu, tidak boleh ada kaum yang ‘bagai enau di dalam belukar, melepaskan pucuk masing-masing’. Percayalah bahawa bahasa kebangsaan mampu dijadikan wadah dalam meningkatkan taraf ekonomi negara Malaysia bagi menuju visi dan matlamat Wawasan 2020.

“Kita satu bangsa, kita satu negara, kita satu matlamat…” Begitulah sedikit bait-bait lirik lagu patriotik yang sering berkumandang di corong-corong radio dan di televisyen. Kesimpulannya, setiap pihak mestilah memainkan peranan penting dalam memartabatkan bahasa kebangsaan di negara kita. Hal ini dapat mendorong kita mencapai matlamat Wawasan 2020 seterusnya melahirkan masyarakat mawaddah dan sakinah. Namun begitu, hal ini hanya mampu direalisasikan sekiranya setiap warganegara Malaysia mencintai dan berusaha menaikkan nama Malaysia di seantero dunia. Jelaslah bahawa bahasa kebangsaan mempunyai kepentingan yang jitu untuk semua kaum di negara ini.

15 Things You Can Do To Improve Your English

•  Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Be confident. People can only correct your mistakes when  they hear you make them.
• Surround yourself in English. Put yourself in an all English speaking environment where you can learn passively. The best way to learn is through speaking.
•  Practise every day. Make yourself a study plan. Decide how much time a week you are going to spend studying and stick to it. Establish a routine.
•  Tell your family and friends about your study plan. Get them to push you to study and also  don’t let them interrupt you.
• Practise the 4 core skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. They all need to be worked on for you to improve.
• Keep a notebook of new words you learn. Use them in sentences and try to say them at least 3 times when you speak.
• Do a lesson at least once a day.
• Memorisation of lists is one of the most common ways of learning vocabulary for a test. It’s only a good exercise for short term studying because you often do not retain the information that you have learned for a test.
•  Use your body clock. If you’re not a morning person, study in the afternoon.
• You will find words easier to remember if you try to remember an example sentence using that word rather the word on its own.
•  Plan to take a test. You’ll find that you work harder when you need to study for something.
• Saying that, it’s better not to study just to take a test. Think of the bigger picture. What can you do when you have a good command of English? How will the quality of your life improve?
• Give yourself a long term goal. Focus on working towards it.
• Give yourself short term goals too and reward yourself when you achieve each one.
• Create an atmosphere in which you want to learn, not because you have to. You’ll learn more when you’re learning because you want to.

Panduan Format & Menulis Surat Rasmi

Berikut adalah panduan serta format cara untuk merangka dan menulis surat rasmi dengan betul. Surat rasmi adalah keadah menulis surat secara nirmla untuk tujuan khusus secara rasmi. Ianya tidak boleh ditulis sesuka hati kerana memerlukan penggunaan format, bahasa dan huruf yang betul.

Format surat rasmi ini adalah standard dan diguna dan diterima pakai oleh semua termasuklah oleh individu, persatuan, syarikat, kerajaan dan sebagainya untuk tujuan-tujuan rasmi seperti berikut:

• Memohon pekerjaan
• Membuat aduan
• Membuat rayuan
• Meminta derma
• Membuat jemputan rasmi
• Menempah barangan
• Meminta kebenaran
• Pemberitahuan
• Sebagainya

Panduan Format Asas Surat Rasmi

Tarikh 

Alamat 

__________________________________

Nama Penerima

Jawatan

Alamat

Tuan/Puan

Tajuk:

Menyata tujuan

2. Isi karangan

3. Isi karangan

Penutup

Yang benar,

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Nama Penuh

Jawatan

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Top 5 Soft Skills Every University Students Need

Soft skills include the ability to adapt to changing circumstances and the willingness to learn through experience, and are applicable across multiple disciplines and careers. It is important for students to develop soft skills as they prepare for University and as they graduate and enter the workforce. There are five important soft skills University-bound students require.

1. Collaboration: It is imperative for University-bound students to function efficiently and appropriately in groups, collaborate on projects and accept constructive criticism when working with others. People who succeed only when working alone will struggle in University and beyond, as the majority of careers require collaboration.

2. Communication and interpersonal skills: A common complaint among employers is that young people do not know how to effectively carry on a conversation and are unable to do things like ask questions, listen actively and maintain eye contact. Obtaining an internship in a professional setting is also a wonderful method to enhance communication and interpersonal skills.

3. Problem-solving: Students will be faced with a number of unexpected challenges in life and receive little or no aid in overcoming them. They must be able to solve problems in creative ways and to determine solutions to issues with no prescribed formula.Students can improve problem-solving abilities by enrolling in classes that use experiential learning rather than rote memorization.

4. Time management: Whatever structure students may have had in high school to organize their work and complete assignments in a timely manner will be largely absent in University. It is imperative that they be fully self-sufficient in managing their time and prioritizing actions.

5. Leadership: While it is important to be able to function in a group, if is also important to demonstrate leadership skills when necessary. Both in University and within the workforce, the ability to assume the lead when the situation calls for it is a necessity for anyone who hopes to draw upon their knowledge and "hard" skills in a position of influence.

Debate

Debate is contention in argument; strife, dissension, quarrelling, controversy; especially a formal discussion of subject before a public assembly or legislature, in Parliament or in any deliberative assembly.

Debate is a method of formally presenting an argument in a structured manner. Through logical consistency, factual accuracy and some degree of emotional appeal to the audience are elements in debating, where one side of prevails over the other party by presenting a superior 'context' and framework of the issue. The outcome of a debate may depend upon consessus or some formal way of reaching a resolution, rather than the objective facts.

Debating is carried out in debating chambers and assemblies of various types to discuss matters and to make resolution about the action to be taken, often by voting. Deliberative bodies such as parliaments, legislative assemblies, and meetings of all sorts engage in debates. in particular, in parliamentary democracies a legislature debates and decides on new laws. Formal debates between candidates for elected office, such as the leaders debates that are sometimes held in democracies.

informal and forum debate is relatively common, shown by TV shows such as the Australian talk show, Q&A, the quality and depth of a debate improves with the knowledge and skills of its participants as debaters.