hello!! I'm starting a langblr because I've been slacking a bit and need to hold myself accountable lol. so here's a bit about me!!
- I am currently focusing on learning Bahasa Indonesia 🇮🇩 and that's about it, because I want to be really good at it one day haha. I love reading and writing so I would love to be able to do those at the same level that I do in English! and of course I want to be able to fluently communicate with my relatives in Indonesia!
- I live in America and I'm half Chinese- Indonesian and half German :)
- I am a college student so I don't have a ton of time to devote to learning
- I love learning though and am trying many new methods to try! Always open to new methods and ideas!
- I've been trying to learn on my own for almost a year now and it's not going too great because I focused too much on Duolingo for a while and don't really know what I'm doing haha
if anyone else is also learning Indonesian or is able to speak it and is trying to learn english dm me!! I'm no pro, but it could be fun to talk :D
since we talked about slang and swear words last time, we’re going to move on to something a little bit more wholesome this time. i present to you, animals in bahasa indonesia.
dog | anjing
cat | kucing
tiger | harimau
shark | hiu
crab | kepiting
lion | singa
snake | ular
horse | kuda
worm | cacing
sheep | kambing / domba
deer | rusa
mouse | tikus
rhino | badak
hippo | kuda nil
dragon | naga
crow | burung gagak
sparrow | burung gereja
peacock | burung merak
eagle | burung elang
owl | burung hantu
bird of paradise | cendrawasih
cockatoo | kakatua
Learning another language is one thing, but trying to learn that language with the way its native speakers speak/write/type it with intentional or unintentional grammatical, spelling, & pronounciation errors in everyday conversations is another thing.
as 2022 is very soon I would like to set some goals for learning Indonesian in the next year! some of them are pretty big long term ones and some are small and shouldn't take too long :) I don't want to frustrate my future self with unreachable goals haha
- finish the indonesian Duolingo course
- finish the Indonesian Babbel course
- enroll in an online Indonesian course or talk to a tutor on iTalki
- be able to have a regular conversation without needing to look things up
- be able to read 90% of a chapter book without looking things up
- talk in real life with people in Indonesian regularly
- finish reading the Indonesian reader
and I think that's about it! I'll probably come back and edit this as I think of more and reblog with progress reports!
- I'm in an Indonesian class!! it's been amazing for learning and I've made more progress in the two months I've been in this class than the year I was studying on my own. I get to talk to my professor and other students in indonesian every day and its great! also the professor, ta, and students in the class are all so sweet and it's surreal that I get to have this experience.
- I've started talking in real life in indonesian to the other Indonesian students at my university since I already knew them (there's 4 of us haha) last year one of them literally just said apa kabar and I froze but I can hold a decent conversation with him now! unfortunately he's graduating but he said he's passing me the torch as the oldest Indonesian on campus :) also I've been texting my Oma on Whatsapp which has been really nice as well :)
- I've pretty much given up on online things like Duolingo and babbel since this actual class is working so much better so much faster but I may come back for some quick refreshers over winter and summer break
- oh yeah also!!! I may be going on an all expenses paid trip to Indonesia over this summer!! wah! idek what to say about this but omg it's so exciting!!! college really has its perks I swear,,
- I ran the Indonesian table at my schools Asian event and it was so fun!! next year I want to make sure I have a script and have read the Indonesian reader so I know what to say bc at first I really didn't know at all haha but it really raised my confidence since I was able to answer all the questions people asked and a couple times the other indonesians were surprised by something I said :) also did a presentation in my linguistics class on Indonesian which was fun too!
- jadi ya! saya tidak membaca banyak di bahasa Inggris atau bahasa Indonesia, tapi saya mau membaca di winter break. karena itu, saya tidak pikir yang saya bisa membaca 90% buku, namun saya akan mencoba wkwk,, saya senang semester ini dan kelasku bagus!
- made so much progress because of my college Indonesian class :) very excited
- i am conversational i think, but i don't quite have words that aren't in every conversation down. so specialized words, esp long ones, i often don't remember so I tend to look those up
- don't rly get to talk to ppl in Indonesian much irl but I've been using hellotalk a lot over break, using Indonesian sometimes w my dad, talking with my Oma on whatsapp, and ofc once my Indonesian course starts again this Monday, I'll be able to talk to ppl in Indonesian every day and learn more! v exciting!
- again, haven't been reading much so not sure about the chapter book thing and i also didn't get to the Indonesia reader. wanna read that once I get the motivation. I'll have to figure out how best to do that bc school is starting soon and it's a big book lol
- i love Indonesian music so much. i lost some of my songs when I broke my phone, but luckily I remembered most of them and have been finding new music i like all the time
- no Indonesian trip with school this year unfortunately. still thinking about maybe figuring out how to do it though, maybe this summer. lots of logistics to think about with that
- also on a more cultural than linguistic note, I've been cooking a lot of Indonesian food which is always nice! nothing like it fr
- so yeah!! idk how this year went by so incredibly fast but I'm happy with the progress that I've made!
Finished my first week of the LINGUA programme with UNAIR - learning Bahasa Indonesia!
Despite being half-Indonesian, English is my first language and I only know bits and pieces but hopefully I can progress well. I’ve actually found Duolingo to be a big help too.
Still getting used to GoodNotes. It’s weird because this looks like my handwriting but my pen-and-paper writing is also completely different to what you see here.
I'm so silly 💀 i wanted to learn Javanese bc that's what my family speaks, but my bapak told me that there wouldnt be any resources online. so I went ahead and started studying bahasa Indonesia, and i just looked and there are literally classes and resources. not as many as with bahasa Indonesia but still djsnxdhd
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aku sangat konyol 💀 aku ingin belajar bahasa Java karena keluargaku bicara itu, tapi bapakku memberitahuku yang tak ada sumber daya online. jadi aku mulai belajar bahasa Indonesia, dan aku melihat ke atas baru2 dan ada kelas2 dan sumber daya. tak sebanyak dengan bahasa Indonesia, tapi tetap saja djsnxdhd
if anyone has any indie or other Indonesian music reccomendations, i would love them!! i keep looking but seeing the same things over and over again haha
i like efek rumah kaca, barasuara, white shoes and couples company, the Adams, Vira Talisa, Mondo Gascaro, .feast, etc. and as for music not in Indonesian, I've been listening to a lot of BTS, New Jeans, old Panic! at the Disco, Hozier, Mitski, Will Wood, and Cosmo Sheldrake (ik i have a 2016 teenager's music taste shhhh)
thank you!
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kalau seseorang punya rekomendasi untuk musik/lagu yang indie atau genre lain, aku suka itu!! aku terus mencari tapi lihat sesuatu sama lagi dan lagi wkwk
aku suka efek rumah kaca, barasuara, white shoes and couples company, the Adams, Vira Talisa, Mondo Gascaro, .feast, etc. dan untuk musik yang tak ada di bahasa Indonesia, aku mendengarkan banyak BTS, New Jeans, Panic! at the Disco tua, Hozier, Mitski, Will Wood, dan Cosmo Sheldrake (tahuku yang selera musikku remaja 2016 ssstt)
Peacock decorations for Chindo sangjit (bethrotal ceremony) honestly screams gay and trans rights (after peahens are no longer sexually active they grow the long colorful tail and adopt mannerisms usually characterized for male peafowls) and I'm living it.
Like I know its unintentional, but fuck off these guys are gay and trans icons and there's nothing anyone can do about it
i'm told the prompt for day two is to make a list of goals for my target languages, so here we go!
overarching goals:
- move abroad, study eastern european (and specifically slavic) languages and their philology. i am russian, but i have lived in america most of my life, so visiting and practicing feels like home to me. it's one of the most important things in my life. i also think languages like polish and lithuanian are extremely beautiful, ideally i would never stop learning about these in the grand sense, even outside of formal schooling.
- use posts like these as an opportunity to journal and write about my day to day life, keep in touch with myself about where we're at and how it affects us (me) (i'm us)
smaller goals:
- continue on my study track with french flashcards. i have found a deck that i enjoy very much and it's EXTREMELY well-made!
- find a good deck for intermediate russian vocabulary. perhaps i need to make my own for this, but finding audio for each anki card will be time consuming
- continue listening to foreign jams and see if i find any new artists that i really love
- read a book in russian every so often. read a book in french once i feel comfortable enough! structure my day in a way that allows short bursts of reading (like on a commute or while cooking. or before bed!)
- try a 1-3 month challenge to see if i can jump start my vocabulary ability and gain confidence in a language learning setup that works for me
- dont take myself too seriously or beat myself up over it. i have adhd which puts me at a very tangible disadvantage and i need to uncouple my expectations for myself in high school with the way my world works now. be realistic. be forgiving with myself.
- keep up with langblr reactivation challenge! check in even just to say i've completed nothing.
- maybe get back into duolingo (not a great primary resource, but good for motivation and re-centering when i get off track!)
- use these posts to show you guys fun stuff in my life. that's a photo of my friend's cat and that's a photo of me in my bathroom. ravissante!
Hello everyone! As you may know I've created this challenge to help revive the langblr community. It's a three week challenge designed to get you back into learning languages and (hopefully) give you ideas on how to study and share your knowledge of them. It is completely optional to do, but try to reblog other people's posts if you aren't participating.
The challenge is designed to be done daily, however if you miss a day, you can go back and do it later or continue from where you left off. I do encourage you to do your best to keep up with the challenge though. Tag your posts with #langblr reactivation challenge so that others can find your posts.
If you have any questions, please send me an ask or a message and I'll do my best to answer it.
I'll put the prompts under a read more so this post isn't ridiculously long. Good luck to everyone participating! Remember the best way to promote the langblr revival is by reblogging other people's work.
Week 1
Day 1: Create an introduction post about yourself. What's your name? What languages are you studying? What languages do you hope to study? What do you hope you'll get out of this challenge? Add whatever else you’d like to your introduction post!
Day 2: Write a list of goals you have for your target languages. Make both long term and short term goals. An overall goal could be to have the ability to talk with native speakers with ease and a smaller goal would be to finally learn that difficult grammar point that's been plaguing you for ages. How will you achieve them?
Day 3: Create a list or a Mindmap of vocabulary topics. Start with a broad topic and narrow down to more specific topics. An example could be bedroom - furniture - closet - clothes or travelling - languages - study words - school supplies. Keep a hold of this because you'll use it later to create vocab to study. Some broad topics to start with: house, school, work, travelling, friends and family, nature, city. Feel free to use these or think of your own. Share your mindmap so others can get some ideas if they need it. Here are some mind map creation tools (x) (x) (x).
Day 4: Create a vocab list for one of the topics you created yesterday, if you want to make more, feel free to make as many as you like! Share your list and reblog other people's lists. And most importantly, make sure you study these words!
Day 5: Find a video in your target language and watch it as many times as you need to in order to understand it. Make a post about the video. What was it about? Did you like the video? Was it difficult to understand? Make sure you link the video. Try to write your answers in your target language, but if you can’t that’s okay!
Day 6: Look up 3 idioms in your target language and explain what they mean and how you use them in a sentence (with an example!).
Day 7: Send asks to other langblrs (bonus points if it's in a shared target language!) asking them about whatever (for example, ask how their day was, ask questions about their target languages, or share some of your thoughts with them). If you receive one, answer it! You can ask more than one person and it can be on or off anon.
Week 2
Day 1: Over the next week, create a playlist/playlists of songs in your target language(s), they can either have a specific mood or genre or they can be a collection of songs you've discovered. When you feel like you're done with your playlist, share it so others can find some new songs. If you already have a playlist, you can add songs to it and update it.
Day 2: Write an explanation on a grammar rule in your target language (such as verb tenses, exceptions, word order, etc). Include sentences to show how and when it is used.
Day 3: Either make a vocab list or find a vocab list you like and make sentences using those words. You can make them as long or as short as you like. This is a good way to contextualise vocab words and learn them in context. Share your sentences and highlight the vocab word.
Day 4: Record yourself reading an article, short story, or passage (basically anything written in your target language). Listen to it and see if you can point out any areas you can improve with your speaking and any areas that you're doing well. You can post your recording if you wish.
Day 5: Post at least 2 songs that you like in your target language. Make sure you add a link to them so people can go listen to them.
Day 6: Share a study tip you have. This can range from how you organize your notes to playlists that help you study to apps you use to review. Just something that you find makes studying easier (and more fun).
Day 7: Share with everyone some langblrs you enjoy seeing on your dash, try to put at least 5 people (and make sure you @ them!).
Week 3
Day 1: Remember that playlist you made/are making? Take a song you really like and make a vocab list of words you don't understand, learned from the song, or recognize but don't quite remember. Post so others can see and link the song. If you have extra time and/or want a bit more of a challenge, translate the song as well, either into English or another language.
Day 2: Write about a festival or holiday that is celebrated in a country that speaks your target language. This can be either something you’ve celebrated yourself, have wanted to participate in, or have never heard of before. You can write this in any language you’d like.
Day 3: Make another vocab list from the list you made at the beginning of the challenge. If you are learning two or more languages, make the vocab list in 3 languages (meaning for example: French, German, and English or Japanese, Arabic, and Ukrainian).
Day 4: Find a recipe written in your target language and translate it into your native language (or another language of your choice) or find a recipe in your native language and translate it into your target language. Bonus points if you actually make it (share pictures if you do)!
Day 5: Create a collection of resources you use to study/learn your target language. Add links to them if possible so others can also use them.
Day 6: Create a post explaining a grammar rule that you had/are having difficulties learning. If you’re currently having difficulties, do your best to explain and ask others to help you understand it better. Include example sentences in your explanation.
Day 7: How do you feel at the end of this challenge? Did you meet any goals while doing this? Do you feel more confident in your language abilities? Where do you think you'll go from here? Answer these questions either in your native language or your target language.
Hopefully you guys enjoy/enjoyed this challenge. After you've completed the challenge, I encourage you to continue your studies in your target languages and support others in theirs.
In Indonesian, we don’t say “I’m feeling sick/unwell”, we say “Aku gak enak badan” which roughly means “My body is not delicious/tasty” and I think it’s hilarious because everyone in Indonesia uses that phrase and it becomes very common and not weird at all. The use of “gak” is one of several ways to say “not” in the dialect of Jakarta.
People also use “Masuk Angin” which roughly means “enter wind” to say if they’re having a cold, flu or fever.
Submitted by @dupontcal, with the help of @aejrogota
[resources: VICE article, Indonesien Mangazin Online (in German), Wikipedia (in Indonesian), Glosbe and Living in Indonesia - A Site for Expatriates in Indonesia]
