Rahman, Abdul Ghappar Abdul - short clip - english
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(speaking in foreign language) | 0:00 | |
Translator | Toward the end, they allow people | 0:04 |
to learn language. | 0:07 | |
And so after requesting repeatedly so many times, | 0:08 | |
I got the dictionary. | 0:12 | |
Then after I looked at the dictionary, | 0:14 | |
learned some vocabularies and I got an English book, | 0:16 | |
very thin English book, but I will look up each word | 0:21 | |
looking at the dictionary and try to learn the meaning. | 0:26 | |
I will read two or three pages in whole week | 0:29 | |
because it takes a lot of time and energy and hard work | 0:34 | |
for me to look up every single word from the dictionary | 0:38 | |
try to understand what it means. | 0:42 | |
And then I had the piece of paper | 0:45 | |
with my ISN number two-eight-one on it. | 0:47 | |
It's my paper and in their law and the rules | 0:50 | |
and regulations, | 0:53 | |
I am allowed to have a piece of paper | 0:54 | |
and a pen and write down the words and learn. | 0:57 | |
And every day when I read this, I spent three | 1:02 | |
four months finishing this one thin English book. | 1:04 | |
And if there are some words I can't find | 1:08 | |
from the dictionary I still don't understand | 1:11 | |
that I will write that down. | 1:13 | |
Then when I go out for a walk and I will look | 1:15 | |
for anybody who can explain to me meaning of that word. | 1:18 | |
And then when I come back, | 1:21 | |
I try to remember what it is and come back. | 1:22 | |
And then when I come to myself | 1:24 | |
like I write down the translation of what it means. | 1:25 | |
So for me, this piece of paper that I collected | 1:29 | |
and I wrote down for like a, like a few dozen of words | 1:31 | |
I spent so much energy on that. | 1:38 | |
That's my project of learning English. | 1:40 | |
And then one day when I went out for a walk, | 1:44 | |
when I came back, that piece of paper was gone. | 1:47 | |
They take it away from me. | 1:49 | |
So I asked, why did you take it away from me? | 1:51 | |
And I want that back. | 1:54 | |
And then they brought it back front of me and said | 1:55 | |
this piece of paper belong to somebody else, | 1:58 | |
don't belong to you. | 2:02 | |
And I said, well, it has my ISN number. | 2:04 | |
Why are you saying it belonged to somebody else? | 2:06 | |
You are watching me from the camera. | 2:08 | |
I spent last three, four months collecting the vocabulary | 2:11 | |
on this, waiting in that. | 2:14 | |
You know, this piece of paper that I created | 2:15 | |
and it's mine. | 2:18 | |
And because my ISN number, then the MP right front | 2:18 | |
of my eye, he took a pen and changed to eight one | 2:22 | |
which is my ISN number to, two-eight-three. | 2:27 | |
And I said two-eight-three is Abubakar in Albania. | 2:30 | |
This guy is being released Albania, two, three years ago. | 2:34 | |
How could you put two-eight-three on this? | 2:38 | |
This is mine. | 2:40 | |
And you just changed it to eight three. | 2:41 | |
And you even didn't change to somebody who's here. | 2:43 | |
You changed to somebody who's released to Albania. | 2:46 | |
And then he changed the five something | 2:49 | |
just some random number. | 2:52 | |
And I was so upset that night. | 2:54 | |
I was arguing with that. | 2:56 | |
And they said, no, this doesn't belong to you. | 2:57 | |
You took somebody else's paper without our permission. | 3:00 | |
So they punished me. | 3:04 |
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