I shall be brief with this post as I believe that my learning progress has been documented systematically on Ning.
My goal was simple: to review and complete Let's Speak Indonesian Level 1 and Indonesian Grammar In Context levels 2 a 3. My learning activities and resources included the variety of activities within each chapter: Oral tasks, written tables and charts, and writing exercises.
This semester, I:
- Reviewed how to express pity, how to include additional information in order to persuade, how to express an intention, how to inquire about and explain payment options, how to express gratitude and relief upon hearing good news, and how to politely criticize.
- Reviewed how to express surprise about a situation, how to offer help, how to welcome a newcomer, how to ask someone to wait, how to offer good wishes for a religious holiday, and how to request a favor,
- Reviewed Active and Passive Verb Forms;
- Learned the yang clauses with active and passive verbs;
- Learned the locative function of the verbal suffix-i;
- Learned the prepositions pada, untuk, buat, atas, bagi, sebagi;
- Learned how to narrate from two points of reference;
- Learned the iterative function of the verbal suffix- i;
- Learned the Conjunction untuk and supaya
- The superlative adverb with the expression of quantity;
- The adverb se-asdjective + adjective-nya;
- And much, much more.
With each chapter, I documented my learning by completing most of the activities included in the chapter, some of which were documented on Ning for my artifacts.
I met with my language partners for two hours per week to go over my oral, reading and writing skills and activities.
Lastly, I believe that I documented my cultural and (language) learning in my presentation as well as throughout the semester in my cultural posts. More important, I believe that I learned a great deal about the Indonesian culture. This semester allowed me to better articulate my experiences in Bali (attending Gamelan festivals) and playing both Javanese and Balinese gamelan here at UR through my cultural topic assignments.
I look forward to continuing my Bahasa Indonesia learning with the independent study next semester!
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