With Julie we continued learning descriptors for time and dates, and learned more about asking questions and the many positions "apa" (what) can take within a question depending on what one wants to ask. I am beginning to get more of a handle of dates; my next thing to work on is building large numbers (such as years), because it's quite a slow process currently. We worked on some more culinary terms as well, learning vocabulary for different types of meat; Julie extended this by sharing some of the dietary restrictions that exist related to religious identities throughout Indonesia.
With Thalia we began working on vocabulary related to housing and amenities, building of some of the introductory terms from Let's Learn Indonesian 1. We incorporated terms for different parts of the house by describing their relative positions, before taking turns asking for and giving directions to the bathroom, the bedroom, etc. Next we worked on tourism locations (tempat wisata), and learned about some of the activities Indonesian youths partake in during their free-time. Thanks to my time as a researcher (and tourist) in Bali, I was able to connect some of the vocabulary I was less familiar with then in this activity.
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