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Voice of Indonesia presents Let’s Speak Indonesian, a program that introduces the Indonesian vocabulary and guides you to speak in the language. Mari Berbahasa Indonesia or Let’s Speak Indonesian is a joint initiative of Voice of Indonesia and the Language Development Agency of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. Today’s topic is still about Lingkungan Rumah which means Neighborhood.
Read to the conversation entitled Berapa kali? which means How many times?.This conversation is between Kevin and Boris, his new neighbor. Boris wants to knowhow many times trashman take garbage from his house.
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Boris |
Kevin, berapa kali seminggu petugas kebersihan mengangkut sampah? |
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Kevin |
Tiga kali seminggu. |
Having listened to the conversation, now I am going to introduce some vocabulary and expressions related to the topic of the day.
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Berapa kali (2x) |
which means how many times |
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Seminggu (2x) |
which means a week |
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Petugas kebersihan (2x) |
which means trashman |
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Mengangkut (2x) |
which means take |
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Sampah (2x) |
which means garbage |
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Berapa kali seminggu petugas kebersihan mengangkut sampah? (2x) |
which means how many times a week the trashman take the garbage? |
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Tiga kali (2x) |
which means three times |
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Tiga kali seminggu. (2x) |
which means three times a week |
In the dialog, you listen to a question Berapa kali seminggu petugas kebersihan mengangkut sampah? (2x) which means How many times a week the trashman take the garbage? In the question, there is an expression berapa kali?(2x) which means how many times? The question berapa kali?(2x) which means how many times? is used to ask frequency of someone doing something in certain time. For example, Berapa kali seminggu petugas kebersihan mengangkut sampah? which means How many times a week the trashman take the garbage?
To give information on the frequency of someone doing something, you can answer like what Kevin says in the dialog. Here are the other examples to ask and give information on frequency of someone doing something.
Boris : Berapa kali seminggu petugas kebersihan mengangkut sampah? (2x) which means How many times a week the trashman take the garbage?
Kevin: Tiga kali seminggu (2x) which means three times a week
Boris : Berapa kali seminggu petugas kebersihan mengangkut sampah? (2x) which means How many times a week the trashman take the garbage?
Kevin: Dua kali seminggu (2x) which means twice a week
That was “Let’s Speak Indonesian” for today. Hopefully, this edition can be useful for those of you who want to know more about Indonesian language.
