At this point in the semester, I have a solid understanding of basic Indonesian grammar. I'm now in the place where I'm trying to rapidly expand my vocabulary. I've been creating picture-based vocabulary lists as part of my resource building and journaling on relevant topics. I've continued to find Duolingo helpful as well, and I've been testing into higher levels to keep it challenging.
My language partner and I have started speaking in about 80% Bahasa Indonesia, and this has been helpful for challenging me to thing on the fly in my target language. Her work packets have continued to be the most helpful textbook-like resource. The textbook I got for the class, Let's Speak Indonesian, has some helpful prompts, but it doesn't go as in depth as I would like it to. I've been using it a bit more selectively than I planned to.
In terms of my cultural studies, I'm still reading through Language Policy in Superdiverse Indonesia. Although it's in English, it has helped me to contextualize the relationship between Bahasa Indonesia, Malay dialects, Javanese, English, and other LFs and native languages. It's also helping me to connect to my studies in LLC 198, where we're preparing to do an English teaching practicum to students in Java. My professor for that class has offered to let me present on historic and sociolinguistics in Indonesia (something I've become quite nerdy about!) For cultural studies in Indonesian, I've started watching Whipped on Netflix with English subtitles.
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