Tag: language

The Most Multilingual Countries?


How many languages can you speak? How many languages your country speak? Okay, keep it by yourself I believe most of world’s people are at least bilingual, either naturally or academically, even many are also polyglots. You can speak two, three or more languages depend on individual basis. Some are monolingual by various reasons, such as,…

Read More

(Holiday Blog) : How Portuguese influences us?


Portuguese is a Romance branch language spoken originally in westernmost edge of Iberia peninsula. It looks like sister language with Galician/Galego, great similarities to Spanish (as many similar spellings but different pronunciations) and distant similarities to other Romance languages. The Portuguese language is spoken as mother tongue by 215 million people and totally 250 million…

Read More

(Linguistica Reflection) : From Asu, We’re Brothers


I found this meme picture from social media. It sounded funny as it told about how similar we are as Austronesian language family. Austronesian itself means ‘southern lands’ which stretched from Taiwan in the north to New Zealand in the south and from Madagascar in the west to Rapa Nui in the east. The largest…

Read More

(Cultural Revival?) : Typing Javanese Characters in My Computer


Javanese character? never be confused with Java programming system, meh. Javanese character has got two names : carakan and layang hanacaraka. It was derived from Southern Indian styled Brahmic writing system along by Indian merchants and missionaries at the time. Javanese script is under the same family with Sundanese, Kaganga group (from Batak to Lampung),…

Read More

(Tuesday Reflection) : Gong Xi Fa Cai – Gong Hei Fat Choy


My greeting cards My pen is ready for fighting It dances on the coloured and decorated papers Cut it step by step Though they’re asymmetric Then it dances follow my feeling While my eyes were seeing the samples The samples of greetings I prepared I cannot write it naturally I am still learning the Hanzi…

Read More

(Monday Reflection) : Mi lernas Lingvon Esperanton


Yesterday, I learned a lot of things. After having fun with my all colleagues (more than 400 persons) in annual gathering for one night and two days in Puncak, West Java, I decided to learn a new thing in my life…not too far of learning language. When I am learning it, nothing can stop me…

Read More

(Quadrilingual Reflection) : PANAS/ HOT/ CHAUD


Hi! I’m back after staying away for a while. Let’s see again my quadrilingual edition. This is my reflection about recent temperature here. It’s so hot and humid… Bahasa Indonesia Sang surya Panas membakar Jilatan apinya membelai kulitku Hingga berpeluh Namun aku tak boleh mengeluh Panas Panas Dimanakah angin? Dimanakah kesejukan? Aku Dahaga Terbakar Meski…

Read More

(Bi-Lingual Curiousity) : In Love / Jatuh Cinta


Aku telah lupa kapan terakhir jatuh cinta                          I’ve forgotten the last time I’m in love Aku telah lupa bila rasanya mengejar seseorang             I’ve forgotten the last time I chased someone for love Aku telah terkungkung dalam diriku…

Read More

Daily Prompt : A Talking Bird, I am Super Polyglot!


Being a language master is my obsession since a long time. I am never satisfied with one language. Since I was younger, I’ve been naturally bilingual with Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese (not Japanese, remember! or I’ll cut y’all into pieces…hahahaha) and English as my third language as well as other ones are coming. I am…

Read More

(Bahasa Indonesia for All) : Jam Berapa Sekarang?/ What time is it now?


Selamat sore! Hi All! Long time I haven’t updated my ‘bahasa’ postings. I always keep busy with photo sharing and following many challenges in this blog. But now I just wanna try to share my knowledge on one of my mother tongues here (you know I am bilingual in nature, Bahasa and Javanese…note..not Japanese are…

Read More