Blogger Indonesia of the Week (85): Hendro Darsono
I wrote somewhere about English teaching in Indonesia thus:
Despite English language teaching starts from the junior high school (Class VII) in Indonesia educational system, and is supposed to be the second language after Bahasa Indonesia, instead of Dutch, the students are hardly conversant to this language unless they join a special Englsih course or having experience to study or stay abroad. The methodology of teaching and the quality of English teachers are probably two main reasons if we want to fingerpoint the major culprit.
After joining an three-month-long English course my nephew, who were just a fresher in a state university in Surabaya, once asked me how to improve his English. My suggestions were these: (a) make a blog; (b) write frequently and in English; (c) read English blogs & books of your interests quite often, particularly those which are written by native speakers.
The advice given are specifically for him as I know he has had enough grammatical skill in his pocket. What he needs just to practice and add plethora of English glossaries and their usages.
For Indonesian young students in general though there’s one more advice had they asked me: learning English grammar is no less important.
With the advantage of internet technology, and blogging, we now can achieve all aforementioned just by clicking websites or blogs which would give you ‘services’ you are looking for and for free. The blog of Hendro Darsono is one of blogs with educational purposes in mind. Here you can develop your English grammar skill. The explanation is even more understandable for English-newbie as it’s written in Bahasa Indonesia.
If you want to blog in English, or you already have, and you feel the grammar still your weakness point, try visiting Hendro Darsono’s blog frequently. Don’t forget the other advices mentioned above as well.[]
Complete list of previous top blogger Indonesia and how to get reviewed can be found here.
Further reading:
- Introduce English from Class I
- Ten Reasons Why We Blog in English
- How Blogging in English Could Benefit You
- Bahasa Indonesia and Nationalism
Am I right?
Meanwhile you want to create an article in English, I think we agree how difficult to translate the article in Bahasa into English concern to understandable meaning word as same “feeling” as your mother tongue. You jailed by yourself that you do not have enough vocabulary to write in English.
Unfortunately, some of us like me try to think as like as others people who speak English as their mother tongue. There are different cultures background in which make differences how to expressed their mind. That is a solution better you set your mind in English not in Bahasa.
So don’t see your computer monitor screen because it could be lost ideas, getting out of your mind. If you watching screen while you are writing, it’s mean you have think what have seen.
The right way, of course just on my opinion, turn off your monitor then you could see what you thing about your ideas. But first of all you might learn techniques how to manage those ideas.
Honesty I often bore when I could not regenerated my words than become feel stuck. But sometimes I am joking and say to my self, “don’t worry you have a magic spell… “hukhukbalukumbaaaang”….it happen my word just coming flow again… ha..ha..ha.
i think indonesian blogger should thank to you for many reason…
I like read your blog but some time i am sad becauce can not duplicated your skill to me.Thank any way
Thank you so much to review this “lets learn english” blog, after that i’ll try to read his blog frequently…
pengen rasanya jadi top blogger. tapi aku tetep berusaha.
kayaknya say juga harus berusaha n berusaha lagi deh
Innalillahi wa Inna Ilayhi raaji’uun. HENDRO DARSONO telah meninggal dunia pada tanggal 30 Juni 2009. Semoga ALLAH SWT; menerima kontribusi amal-amal yang sangat bermanfaat bagi pembaca blog yang dimilikinya, mengampunkan segala dosa-dosanya, dan menempatkannya dalam pada posisi yang mulia di sisi-NYA.
Kawan, sahabat dan sekaligus guru saya sudah berpulang ke rahmatullah semoga amal ibadahnya diterima disisi allah dan di ampuni segala dosanya. AMIN.
May God bless him
Great blogger. Keep up the good work.