How Rebecca Malope Overcame Her Struggle With Speaking English
South Africa is a land of diverse languages and religions. While most of celebrities can speak their home language, most of them struggle to communicate in English. Multi-award winning South African gospel singer Rebecca Malope can beat you at her mother tongue. She also speaks other SA languages fluently, but unfortunately used to struggle with English.
Speaking to Move Magazine, Malope shared how her first ever radio interview became one of the most embarrassing moments of her career, all she could do is laugh hysterically at the deejay as she could not understand what he was saying.
“I remember my first ever radio interview after I won the competition, I could not speak English. I did the interview on Metro FM.
The deejay started asking me questions in English but instead of responding, I just laughed. He asked me what my name was I just kept laughing. The interview ended up with him just playing music for the whole hour. I was laughing because I was embarrassed. I did not understand a single word that he was saying.”
The embarrasing experience quickly made her realize that she had to do something about her English knowledge and immediately enrolled for private English lessons.
