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A Brand New Website!
Welcome to my brand new website. My name is Nyai Hasanah. An Indonesian living in Japan. A language learner turned a language tutor. When I first landed in Japan, some 20 years ago, I started a personal blog in Bahasa Indonesia, mostly from being homesick. Then I started learning Japanese while trying to adjust to…
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Easy Reading On The Go
I can’t stress enough on the importance of reading to build your vocabulary. Now, another important thing, you have to make your reading session easy and fun! These two are the ingredients to make your reading practice keep going on a certain pace, if not getting faster, resulting in a higher comprehension. Reading comprehension qualifies…
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Writing in Your Second Languange
I have mentioned in my older post about reading in your second language. Once you can enjoy reading in your second language, you would want to write in your second language too! The best is to write a diary. When you first started, it would be hard and you will soon run out of topics…
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On Becoming A Language Tutor
Not only I met my Arabic tutor while I was staying in Indonesia in 2018, at the same time I also”accidentally” became a language tutor too! Starting Point It started when a Japanese friend who had been staying in Indonesia for some time, asked me to teach Bahasa Indonesia. So the whole year I was…
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Reading Arabic with A Tutor: The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me!
Going back to Japan means I had to give up my Arabic Class. I was not thinking of taking another Arabic class in Japan. So I bought few books on Arabic and brought them home to Tokyo. I was thinking I would soon get back to my Arabic study. It turned out that I was…
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Why I am Learning Arabic
I wrote about how I started to read books and blogs on the internet in Japanese in my previous post. One day, I came across the blog of a Japanese muslim revert. It was a blog about reading and books. It has a lot of book reviews that helped me find new book to read…
