Multilingual
Dony Abhimanyu
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Multilingual
Nowadays, English became one of the most important thing that can decide whether someone can have a job or not. There are a lot of institutions that provide English Language Teaching service that can help people to learn English easily. Have you ever wonder when was the formal teaching of English in Indonesia started? It was started since the Dutch colonial era in 1900. Only the Dutch and some upper class Indonesians who have the opportunity to learn English. English Language Teaching at that time was consider as more successful era due to the conditions of small class, qualified teachers, and availability of teaching materials (Ena,2013).
From 1992 until 2013, I have studied four languages, they are Bahasa, Javanese, English and German language. And now I am in a process to deepen and hone my skills in the English language.
The first language that I mastered is Palembang language. I was born and raised in Lahat, a city of Palembang in South Sumatera. I think the difference between Palembang and Bahasa are not too different. For everyday language (market), only the style just a bit different from Indonesian, and some different words or terms, most of the letter “A” at the end of a word is replaced with the letter “O”. Recently, I found that Palembang language also has levels like the Javanese language that is a refined language commonly called "bebaso"."Bebaso", it is like “kromo inggil” in Javanese language. It was used when communicating with older people to be more polite. Unfortunately, at this time "bebaso" is on the verge of extinction. Now there are much people in Palembang cannot speak “bebaso”. So, it seems that “bebaso” will be gone soon.
Although I was born and raised in Sumatra, the second language that I know was Javanese language, because my grandfather and my father are Javanese. So, they uses the Javanese language when they speak. I could say that I am a passive Javanese language user, I just
101214124
Multilingual
Nowadays, English became one of the most important thing that can decide whether someone can have a job or not. There are a lot of institutions that provide English Language Teaching service that can help people to learn English easily. Have you ever wonder when was the formal teaching of English in Indonesia started? It was started since the Dutch colonial era in 1900. Only the Dutch and some upper class Indonesians who have the opportunity to learn English. English Language Teaching at that time was consider as more successful era due to the conditions of small class, qualified teachers, and availability of teaching materials (Ena,2013).
From 1992 until 2013, I have studied four languages, they are Bahasa, Javanese, English and German language. And now I am in a process to deepen and hone my skills in the English language.
The first language that I mastered is Palembang language. I was born and raised in Lahat, a city of Palembang in South Sumatera. I think the difference between Palembang and Bahasa are not too different. For everyday language (market), only the style just a bit different from Indonesian, and some different words or terms, most of the letter “A” at the end of a word is replaced with the letter “O”. Recently, I found that Palembang language also has levels like the Javanese language that is a refined language commonly called "bebaso"."Bebaso", it is like “kromo inggil” in Javanese language. It was used when communicating with older people to be more polite. Unfortunately, at this time "bebaso" is on the verge of extinction. Now there are much people in Palembang cannot speak “bebaso”. So, it seems that “bebaso” will be gone soon.
Although I was born and raised in Sumatra, the second language that I know was Javanese language, because my grandfather and my father are Javanese. So, they uses the Javanese language when they speak. I could say that I am a passive Javanese language user, I just