brian decided awhile ago to start studying indonesian. he checked out a book from the library and has worked on learning the language for the past several weeks. it's amazing how quickly he is picking it up. as he has practiced, i have learned a number of words too. one of them being "gula mera" (aka brown sugar, although mera actually means red. so in indonesian it's more literally red sugar.)
last friday i found out that, through my work, i have free access to rosetta stone for the next year. i was very happy to learn that rs offers indonesian as one of their 30 or so languages. so today i did my first learning exercise. i've gotten down a number of new words.
seorang (article for people--ie "the")
seekor (article for animals)
sebuah (article for things)
anak laki-laki (boy)
anak perempuan (girl)
bola (ball)
kucing (cat)
kuda (horse)
anjing (dog)
i'm going to have to keep practicing (of course) since some of these words are still hard for me to remember (ie, say off the top of my head). but boy can i recognize them. can you match up the text with the right picture in the picture above?
4 comments:
wow! for a second i thought i clicked on the wrong blog - but i am glad to see you & b continue to extend your horizons! i'm very, very impressed.
did you go & see vitus again? heart warming. i still believe that what might normally be considered "cheesy" in american films comes across as charming in foreign films - simply because they are foreign. ie: airplane landing on a lawn with a small boy at the controls. you know what i am talking about!
wow, norma, you're not letting anything pass you by!! i'm impressed. maybe you'll find yourselves in jakarta in the future??
i didn't mean to be anonymous. must have punched the wrong button?? (or key?) It was me--but i bet you already knew. : )
i certainly hope we'll get to jakarta before too long. brian does too. there's no place that pria would rather be with his wanita than indonesia.
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