For our first two weeks, we met together with both our language instructors, Julie and Thalia, and discussed our goals for the semester and any prior experience we have had with the Indonesian language. Julie then "began from the beginning", utilizing objects in our immediate vicinity, focusing on articles of clothing and pieces of furniture, to immediately begin building vocabulary and teach us how to listen to Indonesian sentences and respond using the words she had introduced.
We decided that Let's Learn Indonesian 1 would be our main text from which Bo and I would study, while Brad would continue his study with a text from further along in the same series. We began to build vocabulary lists of the words being introduced by Julie and Thalia.
Since we have similar interests when it comes to learning Bahasa Indonesia and are at similar levels of ability, Bo and I will be learning introductory materials such as vocabulary for dates and times, useful phrases for conducting business in Indonesian, and culinary terms to begin.
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