Sunday, July 14, 2013

Language Exchange

My Review about Polyglot Meetup in Yogyakarta
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Yesterday on Saturday evening I joined The Meetup polyglot Indonesia in Jogja. I was invited to take part of this agenda. I was interested to go there, finally I went joining this agenda where was held by Jogja-PolyglotIndonesia. Here we were sharing together about languages such us French Spanish English and many other. Someone shared his experience and another one listened and gave comments.

This Agenda began with introduction our self between one each other. At that time I was so impressive because in fact there is woman who was able to speak Mandarin waw…, she introduced herself by mandarin language with mandarin style or accent. Everyone has time to introduced using language he/she wanted at that time. After introduced we was split into three tables. English table, Spanish Table, and French table. And I chosen English table coz I’m focusing on English right now.

Language for me is for practical. I mean that when I learn language I learn it for communicating to people in different country and different language. So, my focusing or goal learning Language is to be able to speak language that they speak. I think that learn language is choice. It seems like kind of hobby. You may say that why are you so very ambition so much to learn any languages? This question shouldn’t be answered if he/she know it as a hobby. I mean that why I learn any language is because it is my hobby and I like it. I like learn another languages. So, if I can and like learn any language why not? Everyone has hobby and I have too. And my hobby is learn language.

Let’s back to our topic. In this Meetup of polyglot, I could learn more tips and ways how to learn different languages. One thing that I remember from one of my friends there, is when you want to be able to speak any languages, you shouldn’t focus just on the grammatical approach. But beside that, you should do practicing your language skills. You know, that language is something practical, so practice your language to other people. Try to speak in every single day. No worries about mistakes, no one never do mistakes in life. Trust to yourself that everyone has mistakes in his/her learning language. So, don’t worry to make mistakes. You know, you can learn more and more from mistakes you have made. Yes, I’m agree with my friend statement, I realize that focusing so much on grammatical is not enough to help me be able to improve my language skill especially to speak to native languages. and be afraid to make mistakes is danger, because it will make you so scary if you do mistakes when you practice your language.

Anyway, this club has a lot of beneficial for me, I can improve my listening and speaking from them. Some of them got advance in their language learning, some of them still in intermediate and some of them in the middle level. If you’re interested, you may try to join this Meetup of Yogyakarta polyglot for the next agenda. I think for you who’s interested to learn any languages, this is very good for you, so never let it don’t leave it……,,, go register yourself. For more information you can search on twitter or fabecook about polyglot club in Jogja. or you may go to this site: www.polyglotIndonesia.org