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Hai! Apa kabar? ( Quick and easy! ) The average person speaks at a rate of
250 to 300 words per minute. That's 4
( Hi! ) ( How are you? ) [ What news?] or 5 words a second! You don't have to
karena waktu adalah uang be a math wiz to realize that every
minute you spend looking through a
: Listen to native speaker read dialogue (because time is money)
dictionary, having things explained in
English or taking notes, you're wasting
time. Our philosophy is to keep the
Hai! Apa kabar? Hi! How are you?
pace going, add words one by one, and
Imagine that you're Steve and this is your second lesson. Yes, your second lesson because even after just one lesson maintain repetition of previously
you will be able to manage the following dialogue quite easily. Much of this dialogue will be practicing "Apa ini? Apa itu?", introduced words and phrases, almost
a bit like warming up before you play sports. Learning a language is also a physical thing; your mouth has to physically non-stop. This also helps 'shut-down'
learn how to make the sounds; and how to say them quickly and smoothly in any combination. For bahasa (and your 'logical brain' and allows your
languages like Japanese) this is relatively easy, except for a few tricky ones like 'nga...' and the rolled 'r'. You may not 'intuitive brain' to take over. You will
realize it but English is much, much more difficult. Compare for yourself, the physical motion needed to say "Apa ini? likely consciously resist this and still
Apa itu?" versus "What's this? What's that?". Yeah? And the 'th' sound is very, very difficult for non-English speakers want to slow down and learn grammar;
to learn. The Dutch might actually be on to to something with their "Wat is dat?". don't! Trust the methods and more
importantly, trust yourself.
If someone else is talking on the phone you might ask them, Who is it? : Siapa? or Dari siapa?
After someone hangs up the phone you might ask them, Who was that? : Siapa? or Dari siapa?
See, Bahasa is easier. Theres not as much variation, and random variations are usually still not wrong.
Ready to continue the conversation? It gets a bit harder now.
- Siap! - Bagus go to "Hai cont'd"
Want some more practice at this level, adding some new words slowly?
- Iya. - Baik go to "mana?"
Here's the previous vocabulary list plus the new words introduced in this lesson. new words