Learning Indonesian: Update 8
Feb 09It’s 16 days until we head to Indonesia. I’m looking forward to it but I’m still a little bit concerned about my speaking ability. I’m currently drilling my way through the 100 lessons in the book2 course. Most of it is basic but there are a serious amount of simple sentence structures that I’m still getting wrong. I’d like to put my study time up to fours per...
Learning Indonesian: Update 7
Dec 14Long-time-no-see! As I mentioned some time back, I’m currently going through the motions, studying each day with slow but steady progress. Hence why I haven’t written in a while. There just hasn’t been anything to write about, until now. I’ve finished all of the formal courses and started reading Harry Potter about a month ago. The progress was extremely slow. I’m...
Indonesian Song – Ari Lasso: Aku Harus Pergi
Aug 05Indonesian Music to help learn bahasa Indonesian Singer: Ari Lasso Song: Aku Harus Pergi Sayangku aku harus pergi My darling I must go Tak usah engkau tangisi No use you crying about it Ciumlah bibirku ini Kiss my lips (these) Karena esok aku tak disini Because tomorrow I won’t be here Kulihat dari matamu I see from your eyes Kupahami ketakutanmu I understand your fear Tahukah kau yang aku...
Indonesian Anki or Mnemosyne (srs) Flashcard Deck
Aug 05Hello! I’ve been putting together a decent sized deck of Indonesian vocabulary flashcards for Spaced Repetition Software (SRS) users. It’s in the .mem format (Mnemosyne), but it’s easy enough to convert them into Anki cards as well. There’s about 2,800 cards, mainly consisting of single words, but there are also a good few sentences as well. There are also a few...
Learning Indonesian: Update 6
Aug 05On Friday this week, about 250 hours later, I will have finished Assimil Indonesian. Although the course has served me well, I’m sick of the sight of it. That and Linguaphone bore me to death. It’s time for something new. The only problem is that I can’t find anything to support my studies at the level that I’m at now. I can’t start on native material yet because...
Learning Indonesian: Update 5
Aug 05I finally finished Linguaphone. I still haven’t completely memorised it, but I’ve been through it twice now. Any unknown words were put into my flashcards to be memorised at a later date. My SRS now has 4,000 flashcards. The 40 minute void left by Linguaphone is now spent reading Harry Potter, very slowly. Again, I put certain unknown words (not all) into my flashcards while I’m...
How To Study a Language – My Approach
Aug 05I’m going to explain my study method based on learning fairly simple languages like Spanish or French. Learning time needed will obviously increase for more difficult languages. Also, these are things that have worked for me, they may not be as effective for you. Language learning has been an important part of how I spend my free time for about 5 years now. During those 5 years I’ve...
Learning Indonesian: Update 4 – Dalam Bahasa Indonesia
Aug 05Nama saya Jimmy dan saya guru di sekolah di Korea. Di februari isteri saya dan saya akan pindah ke Indonesia untuk mempelajari bahasa Indonesia. Umur saya dua puluh sembilan tahun dan sudah bisa berbicara dua bahasa yang lain; Prancis dan Spanyol. Saya sudah memutuskan menulis ini karena saya harus latihan menulis dalam bahasa Indonesia. Ini pertama kali saya membuat sendiri bahasanya tanpa bantu...