And when you’re having a bit of downtime on your phone, it’s a more productive pursuit than scrolling on social media! But I find it rewarding to spend a few minutes a day practicing.

Teaching Indonesian is no longer on the cards for me… for now anyway. That’s when I began my streak of using the Duolingo app to practise my Indonesian and I’m now on a 400+ day streak! I wasn’t looking to start any serious study, so a simple app seemed ideal. I decided it would be a good idea to refresh my Indonesian! Then in late 2018, the school I was working at was looking for a language teacher and there were some discussions about me taking on this role.

It was a sliding doors moment for me when I almost accepted a position as a specialist Indonesian teacher rather than a generalist primary school teacher.Īs is the way with languages, as the years went on, my Indonesian faded. An addictive language learning app.īack in the early 2000s when I was earning my teaching degree, I also did a degree in Indonesian language. In late 2018, I read about the 50 Geniuses Companies in Time Magazine.

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