How do you call your Granny? ninek ? hmmm..whatever!

I remember teaching my weaker Students the very basic of English: family members.

Conversation went as the following:

T: I show a picture of 'father' and ask 'Who is this?'
Ss: Bapak ORG! Cikgu Zul!(bersomet nya...Cikgu Zul indah!)

T: NO....How do you say ' Ayah' in English?
Ss: ...there was no respond....sounds of cricket filled the room

T: It's Father! repeat after me! Faaaaa Derrr!
Ss:....("it turned into a Kindergarten class)

So I taught them all the words and at the end of the lesson, I tried to test their knowledge by asking them one by one to answer my question:


T: I need you to say the answer in English! Ok, Here we go.
Ayah?
Ss: Fader
T: Ibu?
Ss: Made...
T: Abang
Ss: Brader
T: Kakak?
Ss: Sister

The next one made me stumbles and I laughed my heart out!
T: Nenek?
Ss: NEKTER!!!!! they thought every word ends with -ter!'

and what is a Nekter???? it's grandmother! So, there you go, word of the day 'Nekter'!


could this be their infamous Nekter? hahaha...