This week, we continued with creating sentences while focusing on verbs and other grammatical aspects. The most important lesson from this week, was learning that in Indonesian, personal pronouns come after the noun rather before like in English. For example, instead of writing "your cat", the sentence order would directly translate into "cat you." Adjectives are also placed after the noun unlike in English where adjectives are before the noun. This week we also learned about two new words we can use when discussing future events. The word akan means will while the word mou means want. These words have made it easier to grasp the concept of time in Indonesian.
The lesson from class this week was also very relatable in terms of my self-directed learning. In class, we discussed how being bilingual may help you think or just think differently from those that are only monolingual. I have certainly found that to be true, especially when learning to speak Indonesian. While English has helped to an extent, I have found Spanish to be a little more helpful when trying to pronounce new Indonesian words.
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