Native As a Malaysian I speak Malay well. I don’t think it is well enough though as I can’t speak formally like those debaters and my narrow range of vocabulary. I keep using the same word over and over again plus the fact that I don’t like reading newspaper or novels maybe magazines the only Malay reading materials that I often read. I am a slow-reader. Even scanning or skimming takes me long enough. Once when I was still schooling, among all the language subjects those I take the one with the worst grade will be my own native language. Even though other language subjects usually were a lot better maybe English was not that good. Somehow it reminded me when I was in Form 5 and everyone had been busy writing resumes. Usually in a resume people will state their languages proficiency especially English. So friend said that if she graded her English as good it seemed you were able to speak well enough and if graded as bad it seemed like you didn’t know how to speak at all. Then she asked, “can I just put not bad?”. Maybe I should put like that too.