SINGER and radio presenter Dina Nadzir (pic) admitted that she has never viewed polygamy negatively, but insisted that honesty is the main requirement, Kosmo! Digital reported.
Dina, whose real name is Faradina Mohd Nadzir, 41, said that although being in a polygamous marriage is not her first choice, she remains open to it as long as the relationship is built on transparency and free of secrecy.
“I have never had a problem with polygamy since I was a child, which worried my father.
“But everything has to be done transparently.
“There was a man who said he wanted to make me his second or third wife.
“I said, ‘Okay, but you have to introduce me to your first wife’. But he didn’t want to.
“He said we would get married first and then he would introduce me to her, but I kept refusing,” she said in an audio broadcast programme.
The singer said she was not willing to get involved in a secret relationship because honesty is the most important foundation for building trust.
> Through sheer perseverance, two local university students successfully mastered 15 languages using the Internet and TikTok, Harian Ahad reported.
International Islamic University Malaysia comparative law student Syakirah Ismail, 27, demonstrated extraordinary determination by mastering 10 foreign languages, while Universiti Malaya student Nur Tasnim Afrina Abdul Hakim, 20, is fluent in five languages.
Syakirah, who is pursuing her master’s degree, was first exposed to foreign languages at age nine and can now converse in Arabic, English, Urdu, Spanish, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Thai, French and, most recently, Russian.
“I repeatedly expose myself to phrases and words until I can remember them. It’s not just rote memorisation (a learning technique based on repetition), but rather a technique of continuous exposure,” she said.
She even travelled alone to Bangkok for two weeks to improve her proficiency in the Thai language.
She admitted that the differences in grammar among the languages posed a challenge, but having Malay as her first language gave her an advantage because its flexibility in pronunciation helped her adapt to various Asian speech patterns.
“I practice the principle of learning under pressure by ordering food and riding public transportation using the local language,” she said.
Nur Tasnim, who is pursuing a diploma in human resource management, is fluent in Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin and Russian.
She spent two hours a day, beginning at 8pm, learning each language.
Besides relying on reading materials, she said she also improved her grasp of the languages by reading captions on TikTok videos.
The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
