Improving Foreign Vocabulary

As a foreign language student sometime it is hard to expand the vocabulary. You rarely have a sparing partner you can converse with, mindlessly reading dictionary is both boring and useless, readings like magazines or even online articles needs too many prerequisite and generate expenses. Here is a slick game i picked up that helped me a lot as i learn English as a foreign language. I supposed it works for any language universally.
 
It is one of those name the thing game that i think at one time in the past manage to found it's way to television program. the rules are easy...
1. Pick any object you find around you and as your self "what is this?"
2. Ask the same question for the same object again except you are not allowed to use words you use to answer it before.
3. Repeat until you fail to answer it.
 
By now you would have some words you would like to look up on dictionary which leave a more lasting impression because of the way you stumble upon them.
 
The cool things about this game hence why i love it so much are.... you can play this game alone or in groups with participant take turn in answering, you can play it anywhere even when you are driving and last you can play it without needing anything but your time.

enjoy,
selamat bermain

Written by,

Paulius Setiawan

Contributor to Bahasa Budaya Organization

Lingua Internacional

Jakarta Indonesia

Sentence: Getting into the ingredients - Bowl 1: Subject

In Bahasa Indonesia, subject is either noun or pronoun. Rumah (house), mobil (car), laut (sea), negara (country), pemerintah (government), kementerian (ministry), kebaikan (kindness), kebahagiaan (happiness), etc are the examples of noun. Saya (I), kamu (you), dia (s/he), kita (we), etc are the examples of pronoun.

Indonesian pronouns are practically easy to recognize. However, for nouns we need to test whether a word falls into this category. We use negation "bukan"(be not). All nouns can be preceded by "bukan"(be not).

In English we have "Is this a house?" and we say "No, it's not a house" for negation. In Indonesian we can say "bukan rumah" (not a house), bukan pemerintah (not the government), bukan kebahagiaan (not a happiness).

Now, can you list some of the nouns in Indonesian? :)

Writtern By, 

Maftuhah Ismail 

Contributor to Bahasa Budaya Organization

Lingua Internacional