Bahasa Indonesia lebih simpel dari Bahasa Inggris

Bahasa Indonesia lebih simpel dari Bahasa Inggris

Ini artikel copas, tapi lucu juga hehehehe......

In English : “Would you care to validate your previous statement?”
In Indonesian : “SUMPE LO?!
In English : “Sorry, I think you miscalculated your own capabilities to handle the task at hand.”
In Indonesian : “Nenek lu kiper!
In English : “Would you care to elaborate on that statement?”
In Indonesian : “MAKSUD LOH?!”
In English : “There’s a 75% chance I won’t make it, I’m far too busy for ur stupid event.”
In Indonesian : “Insya’allah gw dateng!”
In English : “The meeting will start at 9:15 AM. Please be there 15 minutes beforehand.”
In Indonesian : “Rapatnya jam 8!”
In English :”Let’s try this new scam and see if those carbo-ladden brains buy it”
In Indonesian : “Mama minta pulsa”
In English : “Please stop by our outlet. There might be stuff you’ll find interesting.”
In Indonesian : “Giordanonya, Kakaaak!”
In English : “I’ve stumbled upon something that might be of interest to you. You might find it useful.”
In Indonesian : “CEKIDOT GAN!”
In English : “I’m so overwhelmed by this turn of event that I’m speechless and in awe.”
In Indonesian : “ANJROT!”
In English : “This is a very interesting topic that everybody should stay updated about this.”
In Indonesian : “Sundul, Gan!”
In English : “I definitely won’t make it. You guys go and have fun without me.”
In Indonesian : “Ntar gue nyusul.”
In English : “You’re absolutely, positively 100% correct. But I knew that already.”
In Indonesian : “EMBEER!”
In English : “That’s so profound. I can’t contribute anything further but I need to say something to sound equally smart.”
In Indonesian : “Dalem.”

sumber: http://hermawayne.blogspot.com/2010/10/bukti-kalau-bahasa-indonesia-lebih.html

Ekspresi kuantitas adalah kata-kata yang menerangkan jumlah dari sebuah benda.

Contoh : some, any , many, much, . a lot (of ), a few, a little, two, a couple (of ), three, several , etc

Digunakan di depan kata benda ( a lot of people, some fruit, etc)

Dapat juga digunakan sendirian tanpa kata benda, jika yang dimaksud sudah jelas.

Contoh :

A : I need some brown desks
B : I don't have any, ask John, I think he has some

Lihat, pada contoh di atas any dan some digunakan sendirian tanpa kata benda karena sudah jelas yang dimaksud adalah any brown desks / some brown desks 


Selamat belajar !

WE ALL NEED TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH EACH OTHER

We all need to live in peace with each other
For outside us beyond us
Are vast vast worlds –

We are alone here on our own small planet
And we do not know how far we can get
And what there is outside our world –

We need to be alright with ourselves
So that when we confront the terrors of the distance
We will not destroy ourselves-

We must live in peace with each other
We must try to do the best we can
In a universe of ultimate uncertainty-
Perhaps somewhere along the way
We will vanish
Perhaps God will save us
We don’t know-
But we need to live in peace with each other
Not destroy ourselves
So we can face in the best way possible
The uncertainty of the unknown distant future.


Shalom Freedman

Format Waktu (Jam) Dalam Bahasa Inggris

Menyampaikan waktu (jam) dalam bahasa Inggris memiliki format (aturan) khusus, diantaranya:

• Untuk menyampaikan waktu, dimana menitnya berada dalam rentang 1 hingga 30 menit, maka menggunakan kata sambung “past“. Misalnya, untuk menyatakan waktu pukul 10:25, maka dalam bahasa Inggris “it is twenty five past ten”. Kata twenty five (25) disebutkan diawal kalimat, baru diikuti kata past, kemudian diakhiri dengan jamnya, “twenty five past ten”.

• Bila menitnya berada dalam rentang 31 hingga 59 menit, maka menggunakan kata sambung “to“. Namun jam dan menit yang dijadikan acuan penyampaian waktu adalah jam berikutnya dan selisih menit ke jam berikutnya. Misalnya, jam 10:40, maka jam berikutnya adalah jam 11, dan selisih menitnya adalah 20 menit (karena dari jam 10:40 ke jam 11:00 selisih menitnya adalah 20 menit). Maka jam 10:40 dalam bahasa Inggris dibaca “twenty to eleven”. Twenty adalah selisih menitnya, dan eleven adalah jam berikutnya. Jadi bukan dibaca fourty to ten.

• Cara mudahnya, cukup dibaca dengan format jam nya dulu, lalu menitnya. Contoh, jam 7:25 = seven twenty-five. Dengan cara ini, kita tidak perlu pusing memikirkan apakah menitnya kurang dari 30 menit atau tidak, dan tidak perlu menghitung selisih menitnya. Cukup melihat jam, langsung kita sebutkan angkanya. Menurut saya, ini adalah cara yg paling mudah. 

• Bila jam menunjukan waktu yang tepat dengan menit nya masih nol (0), maka gunakan kata “o’clock“. Misal, jam 7:00 = Seven o’clock.

• Untuk menyebutkan suasana waktu, misal pagi, siang, sore dan malam, maka penulisannya:
  • Di pagi hari = In the morning
  • Pada tengah siang hari = In the midday
  • Pada sore hari = In the afternoon
  • Pada malam hari = In the evening, boleh juga pakai night, tapi gunakan kata at. Yakni “at night“, jangan “in the night”.
  • Pada tengah malam hari = At mid night
  • Lha kalau waktu sahur apa ya? In the dawn, sudah saya cek di google terjemahan

Nah, sekarang kita belajar menyebutkan bahasa Inggrisnya dari jam2 berikut ini:

• 10:30 = half past ten (karena menitnya ada diangka 30, yakni dipertengahan jam).
• 12:15 = a quarter past twelve (pakai quarter karena 15 itu seperempat dari 60, karena quarter itu berarti seperempat).
• 9:45 = A quarter to ten (penjelasannya sama dng yg sdh disebutkan diatas).
• 14:40 = fourteen fourty (menggunakan cara yg paling mudah, sebutkan jam nya dulu, terus menitnya).
• 3:00 = Three o’clock (karena jam 3 pas).

PRESENT SIMPLE

Bagi pelajar pemula yang ingin mendalami Bahasa Inggris, tentu penguasaan grammar menjadi salah satu elemen penting. Saat ini kita akan membahas Present Simple Tenseatau sering disingkat Present Simple saja. Present Simplememiliki ciri-ciri khusus yakni digunakan dalam kebiasaan sehari-hari, sesauatu yang sudah umum atau lumrah, dll.
Berikut ini panduan yang diberikan Raymon Murphy dalam bukunya Grammar In Use. 
 1. Study this example situation:

Alex is the bus driver. But now he is asleep in bed.
So:
He is not driving a bus (he is asleep)
But: He drives a bus.
This is the present simple tense:
I/you/we/they drive
He/she/it drives

Dalam situasi di atas menunjukan bahwa Alex seorang pengemudi bis yang tentu setiap hari dia mengemudikan bisnya. Maka situasi tersebut harus diungkapkan dalam bentuk Present Simple.

Rumus:

Subject + Verb I + ........

We use the present simple to talk about things in general. We are not thinking only about the present. We use it to say that something happens all the time or repeatedly, or that something is true in general. It is not important whether the action is happening at the time of speaking. In short Present Simple is used to indicate a regular or habitual action:
Seperti yang dicetak tebal bahwa penggunaan present simple untuk membicarakan sesuatu yang umum yang terjadi secara berulang-ulang, sesuatu yang sudah lumrah secara umum dan menunjukan aksi atau aktivitas sehari-hari. Perhatikan contoh di bawah ini:

• The earth goes around the sun.
• Nurses look after patients in hospital.
• In Britain most of the shops close at 5.30 p.m.

Remember that we say he/she/it –s. Don’t forget the s:

• I work in the bank. Barry works in a shop.

This tense is usually not used to indicate present time. However, it is used to indicate present time (now) with following stative verbs.
Tapi ingat! kata-kata yang memang sering digunakan dalam bentuk Present Simple, tidak digunakan dalam Present Continuous sebagai berikut:

Know - believe - hear - see - smell - wish

Understand - hate - love- like - want - sound

Have - need - appeare - seem - taste -own

• They understand the problem now.(Not, They are understanding ...)
• We want to leave now. (Not, We are wanting ...)
• Your cough sounds bad.(Not, Your cough is sounding ...)

2. We use do/does to make questions and negative sentences:

Do I/you/we/they go
Does he/she/it/Ali I/you/we/they don’t go
He/She/It/Ali doesn’t

• Excuse me, do you speak English?
• ‘Would you like a cigarette?’ ‘No, Thanks. I don’t smoke.’
• What does this word mean?
• Rice doesn’t grow in Britain.

3. We use the present simple when we say how often we do things:

Seperti yang tadi dijelaskan bahwa Present Simple digunakan untuk kebiasaan sehari-hari. Lihat contoh: 

• I get up at 8 o’clock every morning.
• How often do you go to the dentist?
• Ann doesn’t often drink tea.
• In summer Tom usually plays tennis twice a week.

4. Note that we say ‘where do you come from?

• Where do you come from?
• He comes from Japan.

5. When you make a suggestion, you can say ‘Why don’t you …?

• ‘I’m tired.’ ‘Why don’t you go bed early?’

Cerita Lucu Dalam Bahasa Inggris


Suicide Blonde Goes To The Hospital!
A blonde hurries into the emergency room late one night with the tip of her index finger shot off.

"How did this happen?" the emergency room doctor asked her.

"Well, I was trying to commit suicide," the blonde replied.

"What?" sputtered the doctor.
"You tried to commit suicide by shooting your finger off?"

"No silly!" the blonde said. "First I put the gun to my chest, and I thought: I just paid $6,000.00 for these breast implants, I'm not shooting myself in the chest."

"So then?" asked the doctor.

"Then I put the gun in my mouth, and I thought: I just paid $3000.00 to get my teeth straightened, I'm not shooting myself in the mouth."

"So then?"

"Then I put the gun to my ear, and I thought: This is going to make a loud noise. So I put my finger in the other ear before I pulled the trigger." 

The Policeman's Ball
A woman in a hurry to get her daughter to school on time was pulled over for speeding.

The mom smiled at her daughter and said "Don't worry dear! I can get out of this ticket."

The cop approached the car and he asked "Mam do you know why I pulled you over?" With a big smile she replied "Sure you are selling tickets to the policeman's ball."

He then said, "Mam, I am a State Trooper, we don't have balls." 

The Boss and The Trainee
A Man joined a big Multi National Company as a trainee. On his first day he dialed the pantry and shouted into the phone, "Get me a coffee quickly!"

The voice from the other side responded, "You fool you've dialed the wrong extension! Do you know who you're talking to, dumbo?"

No", replied the trainee. 

"It's the Managing Director of the company, you fool!" The man shouted back, "And do you know who YOU are talking to, you fool?" 

"No", replied the Managing Director. "Thats Good!", replied the trainee and put down the phone!

HaHa! I hope you learn from this and that this never happens to you!!

Adjective or Relative Clauses

Adjective clause is also called the Relative Clause is part of the sentence (clause) that provide information on the person or thing that preceded it. Relative terms similar to Clause Adjective Clause. Called Adjective Clause because he explains things or people that preceded it. Called Relative Clause because he connects (to relate) the object or the person behind the phrase. Relative clause begins with the conjunctive who, whom, Whose, which, that, with the following functions

Who    : describe the person as a subject

Whom : people describe it as an object (to replace me, you, us, him, her,

them, it)

Whose : describe the person as the owner (replacing my, your, our, his, her, Their,

its)

Which  : describes the object as subject and object

That explains a person or thing as either subject or object

Tricks that can be used to solve a problem as follows:

1.  If the word before the points are showing a human, and after the points are verbs or auxiliary verbs like to be or modals, or auxiliary 'do' (is, is not, do, do, will, won 't, can, can not, was, was not, etc.), then the contents of the dots is who.

2.  If the word before the points are showing a human, or humans is followed by a preposition like with, to, by, from, etc. and after the points are the subject (noun, the name of the person, or pronouns: I, you, we she , he, it, etc.), then the contents of the dots is whom.

3.  If the word before the dots are showing people, or animals, and said after the dots is a noun, then the contents of those points is Whose.

4.  If the dots before the word is a noun that indicates non-human, then the contents of the points is which.

Thus the answers to the questions above are: 1. who, 2. whom, 3. Whose, and 4. which, 5. Whom.

Example :

1. Fast food, which most people love, is not very healthy.
2. Students who are keen to learn get good grades.
3. You know someone whose grandfather served in World War II.
4. My father and me waiting all night outside the Apple store are trying to purchase a new iPhone.
5. Fruit that is grown organically is expensive.

Example a part of article containing the adjective clause (underline) :

Computers and Education in America

Computers do allow students to expand their learning beyond the classroom, but the distance learning is not a utopia. Some businesses, such as Hewlett Packard, do have mentoring programs with children in the schools, but those mentoring programs are not available to all students. Distance learning has always been a dream of administrators, eager to figure out a cheaper way to deliver education. They think that little Eva and Johnny are going to learn about Japanese culture or science or algebra in the evening when they could be talking with their friends on the phone or watching television. As education critic Neil Postman points out, these administrators are not imagining a new technology but a new kind of child: "In [the administrator's] vision, there is a confident and typical sense of unreality. Little Eva can't sleep, so she decides to learn a little algebra? Where does little Eva come from? Mars?" Only students from some distant planet would prefer to stick their nose in a computer rather than watch TV or go to school and be with their friends.

Their short attention spans, their unwillingness to explore subjects in depth, their poor reading and evaluation skills. Computers also tend to isolate students, to turn them into computer geeks who think cyberspace is actually real. Some students have found they have a serious and addictive case of "Webaholism," where they spend hours and hours on the computer at the expense of their family and friends. Unfortunately, computers tend to separate, not socialize students. Finally, we need to think about who has the most to gain or lose from computers in the schools. Are administrators getting more students "taught" for less money? Are big companies training a force of computer worker bees to run their businesses? Will corporate CEO's use technology to isolate and control their employees?

Like all cults, this one has the intention of enlisting mindless allegiance and acquiescence. Peoplewho have no clear idea of what they mean by information or why they should want so much of it are nonetheless prepared to believe that we live in an Information Age, which makes every computer around us what the relics of the True Cross were in the Age of Faith: emblems of salvation.

--Dudley Erskine Devlin--

Questions and Answers of the excercises :

1.  I talked to the woman she was sitting next to me

     I talked to the woman who was sitting next to me 

 2. I have a class it begins at 08.00 Am

     I have a class which begins at 08.00 Am

3. The man called the police his car was stolen

    The man whose car was stolen called the police

4. The building is very old he lives there

    The building where he lives is very old

5. The woman was ms Silvy I saw her

    The woman whom I saw was ms Silvy

Sumber :

http://faculty.deanza.edu/flemingjohn/stories/storyReader$20

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/example-adjective-clauses.html

http://novenrique.blogspot.com/2010/02/relative-clause-adalah-bagian-dari.html