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Why is so difficult to master/learn Engslish and Japanese at the same time?
Actually I'm Indonesian. I graduated from university of Indonesia, majoring Japanese studies.
Approximately four years I've been learning Japanese but my grade is still intermediate (Chuukyu). I don't know why but I think Japanese is not as easy as I thought before.
Then after graduated, I think my ability in English was declining. So I decided to focus just in one language to study. I chose to improve my English back since English is more important I thought at that moment.
day by day I'm improving my English, especially the vocabulary and doing the english conversation with native.
But now
poor that my Japanese is getting weaker.
and the worst thing happened when I had an interview for my job. I passed the English interview so nicely but it otherwise for my Japanese one.
I felt so shame because my major is Japanese but my English is much better than my Japanese.
so, I wish that I could master/learn English and Japanese at the same time without being confused, distracted or unbalance.
Perhaps it's just because the difference of both structures (English and Japanese)
English main structure is actually same like Indonesian:
(Subject + Predicate + Object )
otherwise Japanese structure is:
(Subject + Object + Predicate)
it's like a reverse structure for my own language structure.
yeah, maybe that's one of the problem that often made me uncomfortable enough when speaking Japanese.
too much thingking I suppose.
for example when I want to say:
" I think you are a smart student"
in Japanese you it comes to
" Anata ha atama ga ii gakusei da to omoimasu"
Anata = you
atama ga ii = smart
omoimasu = Think
However,
I just sharing and I wish I could make them balance.
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PURE HEART AND FUTURE
What we perceive when we value someone else depends on how pure our minds are.
If you have a pure heart, you'll have a pure mind as well,
If you have a pure mind, you'll always have a nice word to speak,
If you always have a nice word to speak, you'll have a good manner,
HEART, MIND and WORD are reflecting our lives.
If we want to get succeed and a better life, we have to keep nicely our hearts, minds, and words because those all will bring us into a good way of life.
your HEART determines your MIND
your MIND determines your WORD and BEHAVIOR
and your BEHAVIOR determines your FUTURE :)
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THREE SIMPLE STORIES ( FAITH, TRUST, HOPE )
Once, all villagers decided to pray for rain. On the day of prayer, all people gathered but only one boy came with umbrella.
=> That is faith
When you throw one year old baby in the air, he laughs because he knows his father will catch him
=> That is trust
Every night we go to bed. We have no assurance to wake up alive next morning; but still we set alarm for tomorrow
=> That is Hope
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WINNER? LOSER? SCOFFER?
There were three eggs (turtle's egg, snail's egg and frog's egg) hatching at the same time inside a well. Everyday they all three always playing together there.
One day, Turtle was looking upon the bright top from the bottom of the dark well. He's wondering about the living on the top, seemed interesting, comfortable, bright, etc. Then he asked Frog and Snail to go up.
But the Frog mocked the Turtle's plan to go up. Frog thought that he himself who could jump higher couldn't possibly reach the top. so did the slowly snail as well. so how about the silly slowest turtle?
But the Turtle seemed didn't really care for that. And the next day he started climbing the well which overgrown by mosses.
And at that time, seeing the turtle's struggling to climb, the Frog was mocking him on and on, but the Turtle was just smiling to the frog. Frog's mocking was actually making the turtle spirit up and more even better. so he continued his climbing.
And the snail, the one who's just watching the effort of the turtle then started to follow his friend to climb.
But because of the Frog's mocking as well, then the Snail kept his intention off and stopped climbing.
The Turtle was striving to go to the top. Even in the middle of his journey he stopped to eat the moss up and then continued his journey until finally got over the top.
from the top he said to his friend down there
"come on, just try to climb up guys, you all can make it! trust me"
then the Frog said
" No, never! do you want to take the responsibility if I then get hurt or falling?
and Frog also said to snail
" Don't hear the Turtle snail ! you can't do it, you know! don't be silly !"
and the snail didn't even move a muscle
>>>>>>>>
so what lesson we can get from this story?
In life, there are three types of people:
a winner, a loser, and a scoffer.
A winner always strives to achieve his/her goal and takes every comment or mocking wisely. Then a loser never do anything because he/she are afraid to lose and to be mocked by others. And a scoffer never reach his/her goal unless succeed to scary the loser.
so if u may choose, which side do yo want to be?
like the frog, like the snail or like the turtle?
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WOMEN IS REALLY APPRECIATED AND RESPECTED IN ISLAM
An English man one day came into a Moslem, then asked something:
"why in Islam man is forbidden to shake hand with a woman?"
then the Moslem answered:
"Can you do the shake hand with queen Elizabeth?"
The English man said:
"of course I can't. Only certain people who can shake hand with queen Elizabeth"
The Moslem said:
"women in Islam are a queen. And the queen doesn't shake hand with the foreign men"
then the English man was asking another question:
"why women in Islam cover their bodies and their hairs with veil?"
The moslem smiled to him and then took two candies (the first candy's wrap had been opened and the other one still wrapped).
then he threw both of the candies into the dusty floor and asked to the English man:
"which one do you want to choose and take as yours?"
the English man said:
"of course I'll choose the wrapped one"
then the Moslem said:
"so that's the way we perceive women in Islam"
covering their bodies and hair with a proper clothes and veil will make them special, holy, beautiful, well mannered, protected and more than other women in the world
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Music Has Influenced My Life ( my own song title) ^ ^
Nobody teach me how to sing
Nobody ask me to play the music
even, I don't know what music was, before
I was a child with a soft side of a boy
Introvert
loner
Independent
I sang so many songs while I was alone
there's nothing who could take my head away
singing is my life
I always feel free to take my journey in every single notes
I create my own instrument
Instrument of heart
my own voice
So thankful that God has sent me this wonderful thing
Music has influenced my life
maybe you can fuss with my life
but you can't fuss with my imaginary mind
feel free to sing,
like a cooling wind
like water in the ocean
flowing and drifting through the emptiness
music has influenced my life?
this is my journey,
my life
my own thing.
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Challenge For Indonesian Language Learners
I make this article because some of my friends (foreigners) often ask me about,
"why most of Indonesian people didn't say like: (good morning), (good afternoon), (good evening), or the other greetings when we -foreigners- met them on the street?"
but they said,
( halo, Mau kemana?) = " hi, where are you going?"
Actually, I was laughing when I heard their complains that why Indonesian people always want to know other people's business by saying "hi, where are you going" ?
also they complained that they are always taught to use greetings like ( selamat pagi = good morning ), ( selamat siang = Good afternoon), etc when they meet someone by their teacher at Indonesian course here.
moreover, they complained many things about the language that has been taught at course.
They felt like why in reality here In Indonesia , especially Jakarta (capital city of Indonesia) seems using kind of a different language not same as the language that usually used in daily conversation and at their course here.
so, based on their complains. Indeed I can't say that their complains are wrong. It's true. It's just a matter of cultures
It's just some tips for those who want to study Indonesian language.
1. Study the formal grammar first
2. once you've mastered the formal one, just try to study the
informal.
3. then, when you've already mastered the informal, you may try
to study the "common language/ the more natural language"
4. The last, you also have to try to learn Indonesia's short
Massage Service (SMS) for mobile phone. *and you may
also learn the slang word if you need like "bahasa gaul" hehe.
here some examples:
1. formal type
Dimana kamu membeli telepon genggam itu?
(where did you buy the cellphone?)
2. Informal type
Dimana lo beli HP (hape) itu?
(where did you buy the cellphone?)
3. Common type
Beli dimana tu hape?
(where did you buy the cellphone?)
4. SMS type for mobilephone
Bli dmn t hp?
(where did you buy the cellphone?)
5. Slang type
Yey belalang dimandrose tu hepisalma?
(where did you but the cellphone?)
NB: just use point 1 if you want to be a good Indonesian language learners. Just use point 2, 3, and 4 to your friends. Just use point 5 to a certain person that also understand that slang language because you'll be judged as a freak person if you use point 5 but your friends haven't even ever heard or known it.
Just sharing hehe
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Mariah Carey in Australia
Mariah Carey is one the biggest selling female artist of all time.
She's great I think. She can belt so nicely without any strain, she can do whistle voice, she does improvises every her song in a good way.
"Through the rain" is one of her songs that could make me feel so touched.
Her ability to write a song is so great I think.
on December 23rd, I'm going to go to Australia till 30th
And when I heard that she's going to held a concert in Australia on January 3rd in Australia
whoaaaaaa
Unfortunately, I can't even watch her concert. I'm so pity T_T
hope someday I can watch and meet her
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POLYGLOT
How do people become a polyglot? Especially those who can master western language like English, French and eastern language like Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc at once.
How extraordinary people I suppose.
Most of western language have a (Subject+Predicate+Object) in its grammar structure. Otherwise, most popular eastern language like Japanese and Korean have a (Subject+Object+Predicate).
so, I think how great if someone can master two or three languages at once like mastering English+Korean for example.
Their ways of thinking while learning both different typical of language may be upside down, I suppose.
However, indeed I believe that the spirit for mastering every different typical language is one of the key to overcome the problem which may come while learning the language itself.
Actually, I've been learning both English and Japanese for approximately 6 years till now on. But, consequently I've never even mastered them both completely yet. Therefore, now I'm trying to focus for my English first, since English is more important because it's international language.
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Two days without cell phone
Yesterday I went to campus to attend some events there. It was so exciting to meet all of my friends again after quite long hiatus. Actually I had already graduated from my college. So, yesterday was like a reunion with my friends.
But, beside the whole fun and exciting moments that I had yesterday, actually I had some unfortunate events which made me feel so uncomfortable.
First, I bought mineral water but I forgot to take it. It's such a first fool thing that I had yesterday.
Second, when I went to the campus event, another dumb thing I did was, I had a chit chat with some of my friends about how lucky I am because I've already resigned from my company because I don't like my ex bossy bitchy manager.
and you know what???
actually my ex manager was sitting behind me, only separated by tiny wall which possibly voice could be heard.
aaaaa damn it.
and the third, I went home by taxi because it's been already late night and rainy. I was so sleepy and so stupid I left my cell phone on the taxi. I had just realized that I left it when I entered my room.
that night I had been trying to call my phone in order to make the driver realize and pick up mine.
and after a couple dials, finally the driver picked up my call.
He said to me that because tomorrow is his day off, so he will return my phone back on a day after tomorrow.
oh how pity T___T two days without cell phone is like two days without eating
hope I'd get my phone back soon
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