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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4953 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 9 of 42 11 January 2014 at 11:23pm | IP Logged |
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@Sprachprofi, would you mind telling us sucintly the materials you went through for
Indonesian since you started? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6257 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 10 of 42 13 January 2014 at 1:18pm | IP Logged |
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I started with "Colloquial Indonesian" but am only half-way through even now.
When I heard about the speaking contest, I mostly switched to * writing texts on lang-8 * studying the vocabulary / corrections using Anki * self-talk in Indonesian * a few private lessons via italki (conversation-only, without a plan, but focussing on talking about myself and talking about language-learning) * watching random Youtube content in Indonesian (details on this part of my studies: http://learnlangs.com /personal/indonesian_competition_result ) After the contest, I studied Colloquial Indonesian some more and continued more intensively with the private conversation lessons on italki. Eventually Indonesian got replaced by a desire to study Japanese, and then to work on my project LearnYu.com. Right now, I'm using Karl May in Indonesian/German and TEDx talks in Indonesian with subtitles, also entering stuff into Anki, still looking for motivation to get back to Colloquial Indonesian - it's a good book, despite the writer not counting his vocabulary. Edited by Sprachprofi on 13 January 2014 at 1:24pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6257 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 11 of 42 31 January 2014 at 2:01pm | IP Logged |
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My focus in January was to work on my Spanish and Indonesian.
For Spanish, I finished a long book (La Infiel) and started to read another (Allende y la experiencia chilena). I also had a bunch of 1-on-1 conversations through italki. These were very helpful; I'm already speaking much more fluently. Also, I finally learned the rules to the past tenses... For Indonesian, I read over 250 pages worth (Karl May stories for which I created parallel texts) and this has given me a different understanding of the language. I only spoke Indonesian for a few hours this month, but my speaking noticeably improved after reading all this. I also added a lot of expressions to my Anki deck and am only now catching up to reviews. For Chinese, I have been going to the class every week for three hours each. The level of the other students is somewhat worse than mine, but at least one of them is better at writing than I am. The class clears up a lot of misunderstandings I didn't know I had and it teaches me slang and culture as well. It also forces me to regularly spend time on Chinese and to write essays regularly. I find it useful. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6257 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 12 of 42 11 February 2014 at 4:57pm | IP Logged |
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Organizing the Polyglot Gathering has been
keeping me incredibly busy lately and I'm looking into how to get more time out of my days. For this purpose, I read & finished "The Now Habit" and I signed up for HabitRPG. I can really recommend the latter - finally a system that works for me! So far I've done 28.5 hours of Indonesian this year, mostly reading and chatting over Skype. My goal is to do 30 hours in February alone and I'm currently behind on that. On the other hand, right now I'm not motivated to do anything Indonesian, which is why I'm writing this post... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6257 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 13 of 42 16 February 2014 at 9:45pm | IP Logged |
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I just finished lesson 9 of Colloquial Indonesian and things are really coming together,
I'm feeling much more confident about my use of the verb prefixes. The exercises in this book are just what I need. Also, my book list so far: 1. La Infiel by Reyes Monforte 2. Api Maut by Karl May 3. f**k Calories and Other Dietary Heresies by Krista Scott-Dixon 4. Night by Elie Wiesel 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6257 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 14 of 42 22 February 2014 at 12:42pm | IP Logged |
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More books:
5. Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins 6. The Now Habit by Neil A. Fiore I also read the two chapters of "Winnetou II" that are available online in Indonesian, but now I ran into a block because I'm not sure how to buy the complete book (or Winnetou I, same problem). There doesn't seem to be an ebook and the book sellers I found aren't responsive, plus their websites don't make it easy to order something as a foreigner. I wish Amazon or Bookdepository just stocked this... On the bright side, I read some Indonesian Karl May texts without the parallel English now and it's much easier than before, I must have picked up a lot of vocabulary. I also finished lesson 10 of Colloquial Indonesian, which is giving me an even better understanding of the prefixes and suffixes. And I asked around among friends about Indonesian video materials I might use. Here are the recommendations: http://www.youtube.com/user/bookboxinc/search?query=indonesi an - children's stories being read http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2MhzkAS9j8 - Jalan Jalan Men, a fun travel series. The authors also do other fun series. (subtitles in English) http://www.youtube.com/user/radityadika?feature=watch - random skits, Malam Malam Minggu was particularly recommended http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUak11i9nUY - Jelita, an Indonesian drama (subtitles in Malay) http://www.youtube.com/user/BeritaHarianTV1/videos - some news programs Also received a recommendation for the martial arts movie "The Raid" (Serbuan Maut) because it's one of few Indonesian movies to make it outside of Indonesia. And "Macabre" (Rumah Dara), though I won't be watching it because it's a horror-slasher. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6257 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 15 of 42 05 March 2014 at 9:05pm | IP Logged |
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Good news and bad news.
Bad news first: I was sick and then learned that the apartment has to be renovated so that I won't get sick again, so I've been missing a lot of study days. My final count for Indonesian for February is only 22 hours and I'm currently 10 hours off track for my year total goal. Good news: I got approved to represent TEJO at the 3rd Africa Europe Youth Leaders Summit! I am hoping that among the 70 attendees there will be some Swahili speakers, so I shall focus on Swahili now and let Indonesian slide for the rest of the month. (The conference is on March 31st / April 1st.) I do still want to participate in the intensive two-week Tadoku for the last two weeks of the month though. And there are the renovations to consider. Decisions, decisions... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4490 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 16 of 42 05 March 2014 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
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Congratulations on your conference, Sprachprofi! Will you be speaking there?
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