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Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the national language of Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia and it is one of four official languages of Singapore. It is spoken natively by 40 million people across the Malacca Strait, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo. The total number of speakers of the language is more than 215 million. Wikipedia Site
A new idea: Give your students an ANSWER. They come up with a QUESTION.
This is an excellent way to see how much they can come up
with good questions. There can be NO specific right answer.
This technique will work well in all your Malay classes.
Malay Verbs Sooner or later you are going to have to master the verb forms along
with vocabulary. If you're trying to learn Malay Verbs which is also called Malaysian,
check these courses about Verbs in the present past and future tense to help
you with your Malay grammar.
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This course aims to introduce conversational Malay language at the elementary level that would enable beginners to achieve competency in
understanding and using basic Malay with confidence.
Wisma Bahasa | Indonesian Language Course
Wisma Bahasa, the first Indonesian Language Course in Yogyakarta, was
established in 1982. It was initially called Yogyakarta Indonesia Language
Centre (YILC), Wisma Bahasa has been running Indonesian Language
training programs for multi-ethnic learners requiring Indonesian language
services for general and specific purposes.
More on Learning Indonesian Grammar Trivia time: what is the country that is made up of nearly 18,000 islands and its people speak a single common language? Give up? It's Indonesian. With its rich culture and amazing scenery, it's hard to imagine anyone would not want to visit. If you are thinking of visiting Indonesian or just want to learn the language for fun, now is the best time to do learn Indonesian!
Learn all about Indonesia via Wikipedia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia is a unitary sovereign state and transcontinental country located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.
Grammar Tenses Basic Indonesian word order is similar to English. Generally, sentences begin with a subject, followed by a verb (also called a predicate), and then an object.
Kelas Bahasa This is the language class blog of Hello-Indonesia.com where even busy people can quickly and easily learn to speak and read bahasa Indonesia, one message at a time.
A visit to Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's modern capital city, is relatively young. It originated in the middle of the 19th century at the junction of the Gombak and Kelang Rivers.
The Khufu Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex bordering present-day Giza in Greater Cairo, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.
I am stirring up some new vocabulary words in Malay.
Malay (Bahasa Melayu) is a Malayic language spoken in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and Thailand. The total number of speakers of Standard Malay is about 18 million.
There are also about 170 million people who speak Indonesian, which is a form of Malay.
A Sumerian Plaque
This plaque dates to 2400 BC.
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Malay-Indonesian language teacher hints, advice and tips:
I know from my own experience that being on a continual path of self-improvement is an absolute necessity toward being a good teacher. Hang out with other educators that you admire. Watch them closely and learn from them. Imitation is the greatest compliment! Join your malay-indonesian language association plus two foreign language teacher associations (state and national: ACTFL- (http://www.actfl.org) and attend their annual meetings on a regular basis. Get involved anyway you can with each. Rub noses with people at the TOP. Get to know the officers personally. Keep in contact with them. Use these association offerings, suggestions and resources.
Whenever you can in your own environment, ask to observe colleagues in action in their language classroom. Pick up ideas that work for them and adopt and adapt them to you own classroom. Always be on the "lookout" for new ideas, new means of teaching, new ways to incorporate things that work for others into your own methodology. Don't hesitate to ask questions of teachers who have had much success as to how and why that happened. I used to observe elementary teachers and how they interacted with their young students. Always something to learn. "Learn from the mistakes of others. You'll never live long enough to make all of them yourself." Another that I always loved is "If you think you're green, you'll grow - if you think you're ripe, you'll rot." All true. Don't rot! That's an axiom that will never grow old. You may think that you are the best, but you're not. There is always someone better than you. (I learned this playing basketball) Learn from them. Know what the best practices are and be aware of the current online resources that can be of great help to you and your malay-indonesian students.
Keep your malay-indonesian classroom presentations FRESH. Keep up with innovation and the changing needs of your students by incorporating technology such as computer use, iPhones, iPads, e-mail and a host of other innovations into your routine classroom activities to communicate with others in the target language and to access authentic resources. Stay current with options and trends in the field such as the National Standards and know how to incorporate them into your daily plans. Hopefully these few ideas will aid in your growth and success. Stay with it. Don't throw in the towel like many have, but again as I point out above, whatever new ideas you discover, you must first adopt and then adapt. Not everything you see elsewhere will work for you as I have personally learned. You must adapt those ideas to your own classroom. There are a host of great ideas available on all these sites, but they are only as successful as you will make them. And perhaps most important of all, do ask your malay-indonesian students often how they feel about what they are doing and learning and what they enjoy the most and the least in your classroom. Most of all, do enjoy your students and share yourself with them. [They don't care how much you know until they know how much you CARE] I hope that you picked up some ideas here that will aid in your total success. Have fun in your classroom. (ps I picked up these ideas in a recent dream and wanted to share with each of you) I'm 80 years old now, but never too old to learn and never too old to share ideas with your students. Best yet, why not be learning another language yourself? Check out one of the sites above. It is a great means to experience first-hand what your students are feeling. Now you are "walking in their moccasins." Don't forget to enjoy doing it.
Jim Becker - BA, Cornell College (Iowa), MA, La Sorbonne (Paris), PhD-ABD, The Ohio State University (Foreign Language Education).
Major large cities in Malaysia Can you name each one?