My goals for these past two weeks were to:
- A) Finish unit 7 Directions/Instructions, sourced from the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture, and begin Unit 8: Daily Activities
- B) Continue reading Indonesian comic books, sourced from the internet
- C) Meet with my partner for four hours
Strategies to accomplish these goals:
- A) I completed unit 7, which proved to be quite lengthy. Moreover, I began unit 8 (daily activities / hobbies). At the end of each session, I collected the new vocabulary that I learned. In addition, I worked on my speaking, writing, reading, and listening skills through the units' activities. Now, I can describe a building's location vis-a-vis its surroundings. In addition to describing the location of people, things, and animals, I have amassed a large vocabulary pertaining to the topics that will prove useful in daily conversations. For example, I can ask where objects are in a given room and describe its location. Moreover, I learned how to make a noun into a verb by way of attaching prefixes and suffixes to nouns. For example, "perjalanan" means "journey." The root word here is "jalan," which means "walk." the per and an in "perjalanan" are the prefix and suffix, respectively. For unit 8, I began amassing vocabulary pertaining to hobbies / daily activities, although I am in the early stages of the unit.
- B) I continued to read comics whose genres range from comedy to drama to fairytale. Here, this exercise allows me to get a better grasp on the "street" language as these comics use informal speech. It is important for me to not only learn the vocabulary but gain an understanding of the informal sentence structure patterns as well as the culture behind the conversations.
- C) I met with my language learning partner for 4 hours over these past two weeks. During these meetings, we worked on my speaking, writing, reading, and listening skills.
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