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| ElPolaco Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4893 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Spanish Studies: Indonesian | Message 1 of 9 25 June 2011 at 12:55am | IP Logged |
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Dear fellow polyglots and language learners,
I have an ambitious mission ahead of me but I'm also fortunate enough to have probably one of the best incentives that one can have. I'm due to get married in exactly 3 months time (24th of September) with the loveliest Indonesian girl ever :) Our wedding will take place in Jakarta (Indonesia) where I will get to know my numerous family-in-law and various friends of the family, altogether around 400 people are expected to attend (which apparently is not that much in Indonesian standards!) My fiancée currently lives in Spain and I've just moved from Spain to the UK for a summer placement therefore for the next 3 months we are destined to have a long distance relationship before we will meet again in Indonesia. My target is to upgrade my current Indonesian skills from a basic A1 level (nothing more than a couple of dozen random words) to B2 in just 3 months. The whole challenge is focused on being able to interact with most of the guests with at least some degree of fluency and thus enhancing the overall experience, as you can imagine I'm strongly motivated and I hope it will be reflected on my performance over the next couple of weeks. My summer intern-ship consumes quite a lot of time but I will do my best to dedicate as much of my spare time for learning Indonesian as possible. Getting into more technical aspects. - Over the next 3 months I plan on dedicating 250 hours for this particular project (which gives an average of just below 3hrs/day - although week days will most likely be limited to 1.5hrs/day) - For the next 30 days or so I want to use exclusive 2 resources: * 'Lonely Planet' Indonesian Phrasebook * 'Learning Indonesian' podcast - After around 30 days I should be finished with "Learning Indonesian" podcast series and have a good grasp on most of the vocabulary from the phrasebook....that's when I will switch to "Colloquial Indonesian" textbook which combined with a "Tuttle Concise Indonesian Dictionary" should keep me busy for another 2 months. I expect that most of you could go through this entire material in much less than 250 hours that I have allocated for it but since my memory is not my best asset I need to account for having to repeat everything many times until it is moved to my long-term memory :) I'm planning on using "Anki" everyday to ensure maximum vocabulary retention. I've never kept a log of my language-related studies and it's also my very first post on this excellent forum but I'm sure it will be very interesting to share with you my experiences throughout the "project". I would like to record a short footage on 24th of September (entirely in Indonesian) so that all of you could see and hear to what extent has the project been successful. I plan on describing my progress on a daily basis so stay tune :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ElPolaco Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4893 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Spanish Studies: Indonesian | Message 2 of 9 25 June 2011 at 1:04am | IP Logged |
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[June 24th] Time spent: 2 hours
I revised 'Learning Indonesian' podcasts from Lesson 1 to Lesson 13 which I had listed to on and off for the last few weeks. Today I received the LonelyPlanet phrasebook from Amazon and looked over the first few pages and picked up some interesting vocabulary. Today I'm a really knackered after the whole week of work but tomorrow will share my impressions about the phrasebook and hopefully will get the most of the day in terms of my mission. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5222 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 3 of 9 25 June 2011 at 2:14am | IP Logged |
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If you haven't found it already, there is a free course for indonesian floating around somewhere on this
forum. The links were still good when i downloaded it last year. Good luck. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5277 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 4 of 9 25 June 2011 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
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For free programs look under u-z translations. Also try to use FSI, which I find immensely helpful.
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5684 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 5 of 9 25 June 2011 at 10:17pm | IP Logged |
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Congratulations on the upcoming wedding! :) I think you have the best possible situation for self-motivation right here, and I believe you'll be able to reach your goal in time. I'll be following your log.
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| ElPolaco Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4893 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Spanish Studies: Indonesian | Message 6 of 9 26 June 2011 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
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@jasoninchina Do you happen to remember it's name? I've gone through quite a lot of posts on this forum related to Indonesian but couldn't fine any free course to download (only some website recommendations) @akprocks Thanks for your suggestions alas it seems that neither "u-z translations" nor "FSI" has a series dedicated to Indonesian in spite of having quite an impressive list of languages they have on offer. @Jinx Thanks for your words of encouragement :) It also helps me to stay motivated!. ........................................ Before I enter into the description of today's progress I will like to say that a couple of days ago I posted a message on a FaceBook group of an "Indonesian Students" society that exists at a local university (which is quite surprising considering how small the town is) explaining what I want to do and asking if anybody would like to help me on improving my conversational skills over a cup of coffee/drink and soon afterwards I got a reply! I will be meeting the actual president of this society next weekend and hopefully she will introduce me to the local Indonesian community :) Today (June 25th) I managed to spend 3 hours studying. I went down to the garden to relax with a cup of coffee and my "Lonely Planet" phrasebook and studied for about an hour and then one of my house-mates came to join me and was asking me about the new vocab I learnt which was a great practise and since he was really interested in the language himself we ended up learning some stuff together for another hour. For those of you who have never had any contact with Indonesian, you actually know a little bit :) The word Orangutan (Asian genus of extant great ape) comes from Indonesian where "Orang" mean "man" and "(H)utan" is forest meaning therefore something like "man of the forest". It's the first time I use a "LonelyPlanet" phrasebook but my first impressions are really good as it seems to be cover not only the vocabulary (including 3500 word two-way dictionary) but also the main grammar aspects (which considering Indonesian having a really rudimentary grammar isn't too much of a challenge). I will definitely need to get some more in depth knowledge of the grammar from some more exhaustive sources but it's a great way to start. Starting from tomorrow I plan on making my log entries more technical, including the number of new words added to my ANKI deck and some other background information. I also want to do develop a simple Excel spreadsheet where I could type the number of hours I put in and then some some basic statistics (average number of hours spent per week or month etc.) If anyone happens to have a template spreadsheet somewhere I would really appreciate if you could let me know, that could save my some unnecessary tedious work that otherwise I could spend on improving my Indonesian :) Edited by ElPolaco on 26 June 2011 at 1:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ElPolaco Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4893 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Spanish Studies: Indonesian | Message 7 of 9 27 June 2011 at 1:26am | IP Logged |
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Day: 3 (June 26th)
Time spent today: 3 hours Total time spent: 8 hours I've introduced some of the new vocabulary to my ANKI deck increasing the number of words from 27 to 62. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ElPolaco Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4893 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Spanish Studies: Indonesian | Message 8 of 9 27 June 2011 at 11:45pm | IP Logged |
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Day: 4 (June 27th)
Time spent today: 1 hour (that all I could manage together) Total time spent: 9 hours Anki deck rose from 62 to 85 words. Tomorrow I will start to break-down my daily classes so that I can do them in 3 sittings rather than just in 1, it will become a sort of spaced repetition programme in itself. The routine I want to establish is: First sitting: 7am-7:30am Second sitting: around 13:30-14:30 (my lunch break at work) Third sitting: late afternoon 1 hr + 1 person has voted this message useful |
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