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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Memperkaya Vocabulary dengan Thesaurus Microsoft Word

Setelah mengetahui pentingnya mempelajari vocabulary, sekarang saatnya mengetahui bagaimana memperkaya vocabulary dengan thesaurus Microsoft  Word.

Memang, saat kemempuan vocabulary kita pas-pasan, banyak sekali kendala yang harus kita hadapi. Misalnya saja, ketika kita menulis skripsi berbahasa Inggris, kita tentu akan merasa tidak percaya diri dengan kata-kata yang kita tulis. Lagi-lagi ini, lagi-lagi itu, kadang kita merasa tulisan kita tidak enak dibaca, dengan vocabulary yang monoton, waduh. Namun jangan putus asa dulu, ada cara untuk mengatasinya.

Salah satu cara untuk memperkaya vocabulary kita saat menulis yaitu dengan memanfaatkan thesaurus Microsoft Word. Thesaurus sendiri bisa didefinisikan sebagai berikut:

A thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms).

Jadi, berbeda dengan kamus yang isinya definisi, thesaurus lebih berisi tentang sinonim dan antonim. Oleh karena itu, jika kita merasa kurang kaya dalam vocabulary alangkah baiknya jika kita bisa memanfaatkan theasurus ini.

Untuk memanfaatkan thesaurus Microsoft Word ini, kita harus mengetik kata bahasa Inggris yang belum kita ketahui, semisal kalimat di bawah ini:

The attempt to answer such questions can yield a rich and densely textured understanding. But there is a downside: the longer the history, the more data there are, and the less clear the overall picture becomes.


Dari kalimat di atas, cari kata yang belum kita ketahui maknanya. Lalu, blok kata yang belum kita tersebut dan tekan SHIFT + F7 Secara bersamaan, semisal kita mencari sinonim kata attempt, blok kata tersebut lalu tekan SHIFT + F, maka akan dengan sendirinya muncul kotak di sebelah kanan document yang sedang kita ketik beberapa sinonim kata attempt. Nah ini dia screenshotnya:



Nah, sekarang sudah tahu kan sinonim attempt? Ternyata banyak juga ya...

Dengan demikian, kata bahasa Inggris yang kita tulis tidak melulu monoton, kita bisa memanfaatkan thesaurus Microsoft Word ini dengan sebaik-baiknya agar bisa menemukan kata yang pas untuk kita tulis. Semoga kita semakin bisa memperkaya vocabulary sehingga kita tidak lagi membutuhkan thesaurus Ms Word ini.. :-)

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Terjemahan Bahasa Inggris Syahadat

Bagi orang Islam (Muslim) “Syahadat” adalah syarat pertama yang harus dipenuhi. Secara harfiah (literal) syahadat bisa diartikan sebagai kesaksian. Secara istilah mungkin diartikan sebagai kesaksian seorang muslim bahwa tidak ada Tuhan selain Allah dan Muhammad adalah utusan Allah (untuk lebih jelasnya mungkin tanyakan pada ustadz aja ya…)

Lafadz syahadat ini konon harus diucapkan dengan bahasa Arab yaitu sebagai berikut:

أشهد ان لا اله الاالله و اشهد ان محمدا رسول الله

Terjemahan syahadat dengan bahasa Indonesia adalah:

“Saya bersaksi bahwasanya tidak ada Tuhan selain Allah dan saya bersaksi bahwasanya Muhammad adalah utusan Allah”

Nah, sekarang bagaimana jika syahadat ini diterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Inggris? Oke, mari kita lihat apa sih terjemahan syahadat dalam Bahasa Inggris, yuk kita lihat artinya di bawah ini:

“I bear witness that (there is) no God except Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”

Vocabulary:

أشهد
I bear witness
ان
That
لا اله
No God
الاالله
Except Allah
و
And
رسول الله
The messenger of Allah

Cukup sekian, semoga bermanfaat.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Pidato Bahasa Inggris - Pentingnya Pendidikan Usia Remaja

Pidato Bahasa Inggris tentang Pendidikan, eh maksudnya pentingnya pendidikan usia remaja. Langsung saja ini dia isi Pidato bahasa Inggris tentag pentingnya pendidikan Remaja.

“Ladies and gentlemen...This will be a short speech about education. Your education. The bottom line is that you must take responsibility for it.

“Many of you already know that you have to take charge of your hair and your clothes. Perhaps you know that all too well. You’re also figuring out that you have to take charge of your diet and exercise, of trying to look good and feel good. And you’re figuring out you have to make some tough choices about how you spend your time and whom you spend it with. But some of you may not have figured out the education part. One reason is that there tends to be an adversarial relationship between schools and students. The tendency is to resist what adults want, to say, don’t bother me with that serious stuff now. I’ll worry about that in a few years.

“My suggestion is to start worrying today. Now!

“The main thing you might not have figured out is that a lot of people don’t give a damn whether you become educated or not. Some of these people run the schools you go to. Some of you can’t read well, and I guarantee that is the fault of the school. Some of you can’t multiply and divide, and I guarantee that is the fault of the school. Some of you don’t know where the Pilgrims came from, which direction they went in, or where they landed when they got there. Some of you don’t know the names of the oceans, the freezing point of water, or what 8 times 8 is. And I guarantee that all this is the fault of the school. Some of you don’t know the most basic things that any second-grader can understand and learn. Why don’t you know these things? I guarantee it’s the fault of the school.
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“See what you’re up against??

“When we study American schools, we see a lot of make-believe, of keeping kids busy and making it appear that they are being educated. They are not. You’re not. Schools used to push students toward excellence. Now they’ll let you drop like a stone toward mediocrity, if you let them.

“I think it’s fair to say that American education has been warped by ideology and politics. What’s that mean? Some people are all too willing to dumb you down so they can keep you in your place. Say no! Say to hell with you, buddy--I want to know more. I want to be educated. I want to be able to make intelligent choices. I want to be a good voter. I want to succeed if I go on to college. I want to be a smart educated parent when the time comes. I want to be able to help make this a better country.

“So, as I say, take control of your education. Learn what you have to learn; and keep right on going. Any time you see a word you don’t know, look it up. Any time you see a name or a subject you haven’t heard about, run to the nearest encyclopedia or search the web. Try to read at least one magazine cover to cover every week. Read a book a month. Go on offense. Take a look at the subjects you know and plan how you can extend that knowledge. Consider the subjects you know little about and figure the easiest way to move toward learning more. Take charge.

“Has this little pep talk been gloomy? That’s because I find myself worrying about education stats. Did you know that this country has 50 million functional illiterates; that SAT scores are dropping; that our A students can’t compete against the A students from other countries; that Jay Leno goes out on the street and finds apparently ordinary citizens who don’t know which way is north?...I just want to impress on you that in education, much more than you might realize, you are on your own. If you don’t do it, it may not happen.

“Thomas Jefferson said we can’t be ignorant and free at the same time. Ignorance is a kind of slavery. That has always been true. What’s new is the number of people who might be pushing you in the wrong direction.

I hope you’ll push back with all your strength.”


Baca Juga :

Pidato Bahasa Inggris Singkat & Keren
Pidato Obama Tentang Pendidikan
Kata Mutiara Bahasa Inggris tentang Pendidikan (Plus Terjemahan Bahasa Indonesia)