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- My second entry. I'm bound to these two idiots for life, stupid enough to put their trust in me when i was not to be trusted.Stupid enough to stay with me when i had nothing to offer back except unwarranted fantasy. The moment you are going through a really trying time in life is the moment when you will really understand how much family matters.Like the changing seasons,friends are allowed to come as they please and go as they please,but family stays.Forever.October 9, 201410
Mereka berasal dari mana? (Where are they from?)
-Kamu berasal dari mana?
(Where are you from?)
-Saya orang Indonesia. Nama saya Agusnin.
(I'm Indonesian. My name is Agusnin.)
-Kamu tinggal di mana?
(Where do you live?)
-Saya tinggal di Jepun. Kalau bagaimana dengan dia?
(I live in Japan. What about her?)
-Dia juga, suaminya adalah seorang wartawan.
(She too, her husband is a journalist.)
-Mereka tinggal di mana?
(Where do they live?)
-Anaknya berasal dari mana?
(Where does his child come from?)
-Kakaknya adalah seorang wartawan.
(His brother is a journalist.)
-Jiranganya Jirannya adalah/merupakan(much more appropriate for this sentence) orang Jepun.
(His neighbor is Japanese.)
-Tetapi dia tinggal di Indonesia.
(But he lives in Indonesia.)My Comments:
1.Berasal is more commonly used to specify the "place of origin".
Saya berasal dari Jepun = I'm from Japan/I'm originated from Japan.
2. adalah = is/are ( we don't have plural or singular verb). Eg;
dia adalah = he is
mereka adalah = they are
3. Seorang is basically "a" in english. But it is used for a human. For an object we used sebuah/sekeping/sebutir/sebiji/etc depending on the shape or size of the object.For an animal, we used seekor.
Noticed the recurring usage of Se?
Se is actually a short form of satu(One).So,Seorang is actually satu orang = a/one people
dua orang = two people
tiga orang = three people
0 votedOctober 9, 20140Belajar Bahasa Melayu
Ini kali pertama yang saya menulis di buku nota saya. Dulu, saya terlalu malu untuk menulis apa-apa. Saya cuba belajar Bahasa Melayu sejak Februari pada tahun ini. Saya nak belajar bahasa ini kerana teman wanita saya berasal dari Singapura dan boleh bercakap Bahasa Melayu. Juga, saya fikir ia seronok kalau keluarga and kawan-kawannya dia bercakap tentang saya dan mereka tak tidak tahu yang saya boleh faham :). Ini bahasa asing pertama yang saya cuba belajar, dan saya berasa sangat/sungguh seronoknya! Jadi, apabila saya boleh bercakap dengan fasih saya nak hendak/mahu belajar bahasa-bahasa yang lain. Mungkin saya akan belajar Bahasa Jepun selepas ini. Dulu,Dahulu/Sebelum ini saya nak mahu mendapatkan kelas Bahasa Malayu di italki, tapi tak ada apa-apa tiada/ tidak ada guru Bahasa Melayu di sini langsung! Kalaulah ada hanya satu guru Bahasa Melayu di sini, mungkin dia boleh mendapat banyak duit!
My comments;
1. try to limit the usage of nak and tak.
nak is actually the short(and less formal) version of hendak which is also the synonym for mahu, but mahu is more widely used, especially in the middle of the sentence.When in doubt, just use mahu.
tak is the short(and less formal) version of tidak.Always use tidak instead of tak when writing.
2.Dulu is not usually used in the opening of the sentence, it is the less formal version of dahulu.
I'm impressed with your Malay.This writing is actually very good for a beginner.Keep it up
0 votedOctober 9, 20140- First Entry Always wanted to take this picture, something to be brought to the future, i'm years too late or else we would have one perfect picture. late, i'm always late.In everything. But that's my life i guess, our time on earth is but a fleeting moment, like a candle we are lighted, we shine for a moment we thought to be much more longer than a moment, and then we flicker out like so many men before us.How insignificant of us,the creation. We were created then we were erased, and we thought we the only one that matters. Maybe sometimes we've just simply forgotten about the Artist who drew us into existence.Maybe we are just a drop of paint on a giant canvas, meshed with other drop of paints, meshed with others to form some sort of a pattern, Maybe we are not so isolated as we think we are, nor so important as we sure we are, but i'm sure we are a part of something, something bigger than our mere selves, a part in a painting masterpiece of a Genius. There are a lot of maybes in this random scribbling of mine,but life is also full of maybes (or maybe not, what do i know.)October 9, 201420
