mumbling no.1: english accents and my sluring problem

ok, this is my first scribbling (Scribbling is cute, but I think "writing" is more professional.) . years ago I registered on an online journal called 'open diary' but didn't write any thing, as far as I can remember... well, I think I didn't. but the idea is cute. writing journals here is even better, because with luck, I might get a response, which would be so much fun.

back to today ("Back to today" is fine, but you haven't previously talked about anything relating to today, it'd be like if I said 说道，我很喜欢李宇春 when we haven't talked about music, or anything related to Chun Chun!) , I called up a couple of numbers in malaysia to inquire about something, I've never been to malaysia and have only met a handful people from there before, but through email contacts and browsing their websites recently, I got an impression that, at least generally, malaysians speak far better english than, say, people from thailand, india, or sri lanka.

one of the numbers I've called today was answered by a lady speak that spoke with a perfect british english accent. I can't really distinguish between different british accents, I used to listen to BBC world service, and there the accents are quite varied, ranging from the very posh, which in my understand is the sort spoken by the royal family members or an elderly oxford don depicted on tv shows, to quite neutral, the international sort with much rounded pronunciation, quite close to some american accent actually, and further to the very british flavoured sort, sounding either provincial or cockney.  (ELLO ELLO LADS WOULDYA LIKE SOME FISH AND KIPPERS AND WATCH SOME FOOTY?)

well this malaysian lady, she spoke with a sort of very deliberate british accent, might be somewhere between the very posh and the neutral, absolutely no asian accent. I've known a lot of people from hongkong, most of them speak english with a horrible hongkong accent. I wonder what is it like in malaysia... (天不怕，地不怕，只怕广东人说普通话）

I also called a hongkong number today, there's another one speaks a perfect british english, this time more to the neutral side. I haven't spoken the language for so long that I stumbled a lot during these phone calls, besides I've always had a sluring problem when I speak, sometimes even in my native tongue, so while talking to the hongkong fellow, when I said next year he took it for last year and when I explained it's 2013 I was talking about, he pronounced next and last twice in strong emphasis that was felt more like reprimand than a kind reminder or advice. I wasn't upset or anything because it was my fault to slur, but my gosh, how unpleasantly haughty can these elites sometimes be.

anyhow this is how I came to realise I have to get rid of the sluring and stumbling, for the first I'll need to try to enunciate more clearly and emphatically while for the second I'll simply have to speak more.