@nisababyish: Hello! I'm an Indonesian. @tiulpan: I know, I guess he knew that already. Thank you! @Weronika: Wow! Very nice. Thanks for the info. Really helpful. Good luck for your Indonesian study.

Let me share with you some of my past experience tutoring English and now learning Indonesian. At the beginning, you normally should begin by assessing your student's level of knowledge and comfort using Indonesian, in written as well as spoken language. Speaking, listening, writing and comprehension - your student skills may vary in these 4 areas, see what's need most improvement. You could ask start with a chat with your student, and begin with basic questions, and proceed with some more advanced vocabulary. Try to test his vocabulary as much as possible. Afterwards you should have a better understanding of where is he at. At my level of Indonesian, we read articles, discuss, describe, express our ideas in different context. At lower levels students work to expand their vocabulary in different areas of life, such as family, friends, politics, culture etc.

You may compose new plan of learning (teaching) Indonesian. You may define the knowing and understanding the Indonesian grammar as these 4 forms (levels): 1. Basic 2. Intermediate 3. Upper-Intermediate 4. Advanced Level. So if you teach this person and you can see that he/she can speak only these phrases as "Hi", "Bye" and other too short phrases, so you may tell yours request him/her to perform the tasks that are shown in the Basic Level of Indonesian.

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