- Learning Journal 9: State your learning goals for this week and how you went about accomplishing these goals.
My goals for this week were to:
(Finished Unit 4: Happy Birthday)
- To learn how to tell time
- To learn how to ask for the time
- To learn how to say the time
- To review the times of the day and their corresponding category (i.e., morning, afternoon, etc.) -- which is important because Indonesians use the 24 hours model
Grammar:
(Chapter 1.1)
- To learn the subject plus predicate word order of the basic Indonesian sentence
- Learn the two basic types of predicates: verbal and nominal
(Chapter 1.5)
- Learn how to use the existential verb ada to ask and answer questions
- Learn how to use the negation of the existential verb, tidak ada, to answer questions
Culture :
- To learn about Yogyakarta, a bustling city located in the island of Java. It is also an important cultural location in Indonesia for a variety of reasons: politics, food, and music.
- Learn about Indonesia's national motto: Unity in Diversity
- Learn about languages within Indonesia, its 300 ethnic groups, and why Indonesian became its lingua franca overtime
To Accomplish:
I used two sources to accomplish my goals for the week. First, I finished unit four from Bahasa Indonesia Untuk Komunikasi International Tingkat A-1, sourced from Indonesia's Ministry of education and culture. In it, I worked on my oral, reading comprehension, listening, and writing skills in order to learn how to tell time in Indonesian. Next, I used Indonesian Grammar In Context to work on Indonesian grammar. I used this book to delve into the culture too as it has sections devoted to culture.
Finally, I met with my language learning partner for two hours to practice what I have learned this week.
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