TV listening

BORN SURVIVOR - Bear Grylls


I often watch the born survivor tv series in channel 4 which a man named Bear Grylls having adventure in wild places in different places and different countries. It is very interesting and entertaining than any drama tv series or teen reality shows because it is more real and adventurous. Bear Gryll himself seems like don't have any fear to anything and always want to dare any wild things and getting adventure to any dangerous place he have never got. He can go to Himalayas with -60 degree celcius temperature or stay in amazon with no food left and survive by just eat something from trees or plant and survive from many wild animals there. He is the great adventurer in my opinion.

speaking practise

When I was waiting for night bus after attended The Jesus and Mary Chain concerts in The Forum club I met one british person who was waitng the bus as well and have a quite long conversations. It is an interesting conversations becaus we have some interest in music. We was talking about noise and pyschedelic music and I could understand what is he talking about while he speaking with british accents. It is a good improval for me because when first I came here it is very difficult to listen british accents. We had a long argument about music scenes in my country and in England and he interested to came to my country for specialy for art punk and noise scenes that now growing in Jakarta underground scene. It was some good self study of speaking practise for me and I'm glad he can easily understand what all I'm talking about as well.

Here are just some of underground scene and art music in Indonesia.

language abilities and needs

speaking - average
writing - quite good
reading - good
listening - good
pronunciatian - less then average
grammar - average
vocabulary - weak
academic skills - average

Analysis for my abilities
My better abilities for my language skills are reading and listening. I can easily follow when I read some books or any sentences in English but I still have more difficulties when I have to speak to someone in English fluently. I still have to think the words that I have to say about, it is because my vocabularies are so weak. I have to learn and study more for vocabulary. What I can do to solve this problem is finding the new words when I read some books that I'm interested about and looking those in dictionary then remind it, after that I should practise those new words when I speak to someone. What I can do else is maybe listening to some music, looking and understanding the lyrics and surely I will found many new and interesting poetic words there so I can improve my speaking and vocabulary very well, hopefully. The other else is watching some British films, and specially the documentary one about someone biography or history of music, because there are different accents when people talk and make comments about it.

Here are one of movies that I think have interesting accents.

Brick Lane

Last week I spent my weekend at Brick Lane. Just having a good time with some friends with a few bottles of cheap drink, sat in the corner of the street until morning. Had some talks with different people there and shared drinks and cigarettes. It has 'we are young' atmosphere with interesting people there.