FOREWORD
Studying or learning a new language and culture is the same as ascending each stair of a tower. From the first day onward until two or three months you and people around you are seperated each other. There are a kind of beton concret wall, a avine gap, or a long distance between you and them. You were uncomfortable dependent on other expatriates, on your native language as a tool for communcication, and on the culture that you have grown up in and internalized as your own. You were also quite disturbed of Indonesian people, of the Indonesian language, and of culture, which to you seems to be rather ‘irregular’ because of the fact that it is not your own culture.
During the time, you were unsure about going out of your house, where, …show more content…
You are proceed from easy to difficult by making as few mistakes as possible and adopt correct learning habits. After finishing your first twentieth lessons in SAYA PASTI BISA I you are expected to resolve or at least you can reduce your specific problem. Through a number of studying or learning together inside the class and your involvement with different people outside the class, you can observe them as they live every day and know them as they like yourself in so many ways and as people with some very basic difference in language and culture perspective. You can know them as they are, not just as some vaguely defined, hearssay class of people called …show more content…
Our efforts is not directed at informing you about a language, but at enabling you to use it. Your mastery of a language is ultimately measured by how well you can use it, not by how much you know about it. In this respect, learning a language has much in common with learning a musical instrument. You are drilled and excercised to have one end in sight: to enable you to become a skilled performer. A student who has learnt a lot of grammar but who cannot use the language is in the position of a pianist who has learnt a lot about harmony but cannot play the piano. Your command of a language will therefore be judged not by how much you know, but how well you can perform in
Studying or learning a new language and culture is the same as ascending each stair of a tower. From the first day onward until two or three months you and people around you are seperated each other. There are a kind of beton concret wall, a avine gap, or a long distance between you and them. You were uncomfortable dependent on other expatriates, on your native language as a tool for communcication, and on the culture that you have grown up in and internalized as your own. You were also quite disturbed of Indonesian people, of the Indonesian language, and of culture, which to you seems to be rather ‘irregular’ because of the fact that it is not your own culture.
During the time, you were unsure about going out of your house, where, …show more content…
You are proceed from easy to difficult by making as few mistakes as possible and adopt correct learning habits. After finishing your first twentieth lessons in SAYA PASTI BISA I you are expected to resolve or at least you can reduce your specific problem. Through a number of studying or learning together inside the class and your involvement with different people outside the class, you can observe them as they live every day and know them as they like yourself in so many ways and as people with some very basic difference in language and culture perspective. You can know them as they are, not just as some vaguely defined, hearssay class of people called …show more content…
Our efforts is not directed at informing you about a language, but at enabling you to use it. Your mastery of a language is ultimately measured by how well you can use it, not by how much you know about it. In this respect, learning a language has much in common with learning a musical instrument. You are drilled and excercised to have one end in sight: to enable you to become a skilled performer. A student who has learnt a lot of grammar but who cannot use the language is in the position of a pianist who has learnt a lot about harmony but cannot play the piano. Your command of a language will therefore be judged not by how much you know, but how well you can perform in