Malay song and rhyme
About this recording
- Creator
- Kristin Post
- Date created
- August 28, 2000
- Duration
- 2:03
- Location
- Tasik Chini, Malaysia
- File
- MP3
- License
- This recording copyright ©2000. Terms of use
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Two girls are singing childhood songs and reciting rhymes while I record. I met them at a hostel at Tasik Chini, a lake in Malaysia. Though I do not understand what I am saying, it is fun to try to repeat the words I am hearing. They will correct me when I mispronounce the words.
From my journal:
Got to know two girls, Rosida and Jurida. Just by fanning one another with our palm fronds and giving them my hat to wear. Singing twinkle twinkle little star. Without speaking the same language, we got to be good friends.[…] Spent hot afternoon on porch with girls.
