I had a 'three laguanges dialog' yesterday..^__^

wow...she only several years for learning Indonesian and Javanesse?? wow its amaZing... what is her recipe for speaking Javanese language??

so why it can`t be effective for me?/ i give example with my self iam butonnese..my father and my mom always practise and speak buton language and surprised of course i can understand their meaning but i can`t speak when somebody speak buton language with me..i understand the meaning but its hard when i must respond too with my local languge so it happens to me, while i spend more than 6 years in makassar..i can`t speak makassar languages too

Actually learning a language only needs 3 months if you use it everyday. She lives in Madiun, she lives with some people who don't speak Arabic. So she listens to the language spoken everyday. And actually the best way of learning a language is really live with the natives. That's why she can master the language in a few years (she doesn't need 5 years).

yeah for me its interesting it can increase my self confidence i know that my english is so poor but when somebody else understand what our meaning, i think my english is not really poor.. right?? wow..if you speak with an england people is more difficult than you speak with japannese people even both of you speak english..

I agree with what Zaahro said that you're so lucky having that class. I should learn English by myself at school desk. I had conversation with my friends who are not English native. but you had opportunity to talk to them, not only American or English but also German and Dutchman. what a great opportunity! my conversation with that Arabic woman was my first experience talking to someone who doesn't speak Indonesian, but the process was not too good cos she didn't know English too much and her speaking was not too fluent. but it's exciting enough. I just wondered how language could affect people relationship. I mean I can't imagine how if we can't communicate at all, it must be very confusing cos we only use body language..LOL..

Hello adhyz... it is very interesting. I wish I were there. I will never miss the chance to have conversation with foreign people. I don't care wheter my English is good or not. Talking to the native speaker for an hour is more useful than learning the language by ourselves or with other non native speaker. Yeah it's rather hard to understand and follow what they are talking cz they talk too fast ( for us ), especially for the british accent. Sometimes I am like ehh ??? whenever I am listening to peole with british accent . I am curious to learn their accent, american accent is easier to understand .

the provers always said to people which english is not our language...Practise make you are better and better i think thats humairaku do..she only practise speak with a foreigner and she does ...

yeah..I like English since I was ten or eleven. I got my first English word when I was in junior high school and I like English since then. English was only school subject for me but later I like English for any reasons, such as it's cool to understand foreign language and I always feel great every time I can understand everything written in English..LOL..but now I like English cos not many people around me who understand English so I feel different with them, in a positive meaning of course....that's why I was so exciting when I can communicate with a foreigner who doesn't know Indonesian at all. it was possible cos I know English. If I don't know English maybe I would be only a listener at that time.. And of course I agree with you Adhyz that practice makes perfect. and it's better for you if you also study grammar. your writing is good but it's better for you if you also understand English grammar cos speaking and writing are built from grammar..:)

are you english native speaker??

Actually the Arabic woman didn't speak English too fluently. That's why we needed someone else as a 'bridge' for us, someone who knows both Indonesian and Arabic so when I didn't understand to what she meant I will ask to my Indonesian friend to translate my Indonesian into Arabic so she could understand what I meant and then she could reply my question. And vise versa. This what I called three languages conversation. I never had conversation with a native before. I often have conversation with native but in written style like on Mylot but I never trained my speaking skill with a true English native speaker. I really want to actually but I don't have any opportunities to make my wish come true. I hope someday I can have a conversation with a native..

It's good to know another language, beside it's cool, it could be useful sometimes. I like English because I just like it. but then I realize that English gives me more than that. Because I like English I can be an English teacher like today. I can communicate with all people around the world who don't know Indonesian, and of course I can get cool cash from Mylot because of English..LOL..and my experience with Arab was just another example that mastering English could be very useful for me. I become so different with people around me cos I know English better than them. And I can't deny that I felt so cool.LOL. Yeah my English is not as good as my friends but still I feel so cool..:) Maybe you need to learn another language to know how cool to be able to speak in a foreign language..

Hi Majorroald..Indonesia is the biggest Islamic country in the world. Indonesia has the most Islam followers compared with another country throughout the world so there are two kinds of school in Indonesia; general school and Islamic school. in a general school students don't study Arabic but they study English. in an Islamic school the students study some Islamic subjects, such as reading Qur'an, knowing Islam and of course Arabic. In Indonesia English maybe is only language no three after our national language and local language. so there aren't many people speak English in my neighborhood. though English is taught in a Kindergarten which the students are about five or six, but making English as a primary language is still difficult to do. so, yes, I was really happy could communicate with a foreigner using English..