learn indonesian

I am indonesian-american. I can understand and shyly converse with convesational indonesian, but once someone goes off or it’s a stranger, I’m lost.

I’m going to be a bridesmaid in Indonesia next summer…. so…
let’s get working.
And connect with my heritage.

This semester, i got to know many indonesian friends

and well, i feel like indonesian language is somewat very lovely, and guess it must be cool if i can understand what ppl talking in indo or at least, can communicate with ppl in another new language

the thing is i always forgot what my indonesian friend just taught me, guess i need to learn to write down and practise more, for better bahasa Indo!

I have enrolled to learn Indonesian and will start classes in July.

I’ve been thinking about teaching English in either Indonesia or Japan, I’m leaning more towards Indonesia, the pay isn’t all that great but living expenses are very cheap.

Learn Indonesian to speak with my in-laws and their family in Indonesia.

duh gw cuman penasaran doang ada yg niat belajar bahasa indo apa ngga, malah masuk ke list gw…yawes, mari kawan2 yang niat bljr bahasa indo, yg giat! btw indo tuh cm bahasa kedua saya loh.

really

I’m learning Mandarin now and Indonesian was a breeze compared to this!....

The hardest thing bout learning indo is learning all the slang… well, in Jakarta, anyway… I spent two years learning indo from coursebooks before I moved over there and everyone laughed at my indo when i got there! I asked why they were laughing and was told, ‘you sound like a newspaper’.... big difference between colloqial and formal language….

But you just keep practising and pick it up aftr a while.. ahve fun with it!

I got a Distinction which equates to somewhere between 75% and 84.5% I’ll have to keep up the study during the break so I dont forget it though

Just got home from my Semester 2 exam. I think I did pretty well, even if they did throw in a question that i just totally blew (You are conducting an interview with a farmer and his wife about their daily routine- 150 words)

I couldn’t remember anything relevant to farm life so I wrote 150 words of really boring questions and answers such as “Do you have a car? What colour is it? Do you have children? What school do they go to?”. Nothing relevant to farm life at all!! Hopefully I will get a couple of pity marks for that section!

I reckon I blitzed all the other questions, particularly the narrative where you are a tour guide showing people around your home town.

A couple of weeks wait for results now!!