TrueVisions asks Uefa, 'what's the score?'

In response to Horst Bullinger’s letter regarding the lack of score and time shown on the screen during European Champions League football matches, TrueVisions would like to inform readers that the broadcasts in question were direct feeds from Uefa. The feeds only showed the time and score every 10 minutes during the match, and that applied in every country receiving the feed.

However, we will raise your concerns with Uefa about showing the score and the time permanently. At the same time, TrueVisions is also seeking another solution to make live scores and times available to our subscribers. In the meantime we apologise for this inconvenience.

Chulathai Saligupta

TrueVisions’ senior manager of Sports Programmes Bahasa Indonesia the future tongue of Asean? Based on the Malay trade dialect, Bahasa Indonesia is the national language of Indonesia, uniting over 230 million people whose native tongue can be one of more than 300 distinct languages or regional dialects, such as Javanese, Madurese and Sundanese.  It is also widely spoken in East Timor. Four major Chinese-speaking groups are represented in Indonesia: Hokkien, Mandarin, Hakka and Cantonese.

Relatively easy to learn and communicate basics in, it has no plurals, grammatical gender or verb conjugations for person, number or tense, all of which are expressed with adverbs or tense markers. 

Repetitive plural examples are “mobil-mobil” for cars or “buka-buka” for books. The letter “c” is pronounced as “ch”; the letter “a” is pronounced as “ah”. “Ng”, as in “lapangan”, is difficult for some foreign learners. 

It may be one of the easier world tongues, but like every other language, you still need to concentrate, focus, work hard and effectively practise, practise and practise. 

No pain, no gain.

Charles Frederickson

Bangkok