My goals for these past two weeks were to:
- A) Complete Chapter 9: Characteristics of Humans, Animals, and Objects, sourced from the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture;
- B) Continue reading Indonesian comic books, sourced from the internet; and
- C) Continue reading about Indonesia's political environment -- especially the state of mental health in Indonesia
- D) Meet with my partner for four hours
Strategies to accomplish these goals:
- A) I completed Chapter 9: Characteristics of Humans, Animals, and Objects. At the end of each session, I collected the new vocabulary that I learned. In addition, I worked on my speaking, writing, reading, and listening skills through the units' activities. I have amassed a large vocabulary pertaining to the topics that will prove useful in daily conversations. The unit's goals are to learn about Human, Animal, and object characteristics; and to give information about colors, shapes, and the location of objects
-I have completed all of the chapters for this semester.
- B) I continued to read comics whose genres range from comedy to drama to fairytale. Here, this exercise allows me to get a better grasp on the "street" language as these comics use informal speech. It is important for me to not only learn the vocabulary but gain an understanding of the informal sentence structure patterns as well as the culture behind the conversations.
- C) I met with my language learning partner for 4 hours over these past two weeks. During these meetings, we worked on my speaking, writing, reading, and listening skills.
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