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Tidak Terima Tunai. Kenapa?

kotak sumbangan Beberapa hari lalu ada twit yang menyebutkan kalau semuanya sudah serba cashless dan banyak tempat yang nggak menerima uang tunai sebagai pembayaran. Twitnya rame.  Hal ini sudah beberapa kali gw amati, pernah waktu makan di kafe dekat rumah niat hati pengen bayar pakai tunai eh harus pakai QRIS atau cashless. Bikin gw agak heran karena kok gw pengen bayar tunai tapi malah gak bisa.   Iya memang gw sering banget cashless untuk sehari-hari. Tapi bukan berarti kita nggak boleh atau nggak bisa bayar pakai tunai juga kan? Kenapa ya kesannya sekarang kita udah perlahan menghilangkan uang tunai untuk pembayaran? Bukannya uang tunai adalah alat pembayaran yang sah juga ya? Iya tau, praktis banget kalau cashless tuh, terutama untuk pembayaran yang berjuta-juta. Tapi di sisi lain, uang tunai tuh masih sama berharganya. Gw nggak tahu dari sisi pebisnis yang hanya mau terima cashless aja. Coba bayangin, orang-orang tua yang nggak paham gimana cara bayar cashless, atau ada turis
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I Learn French!

la gare - Genève

I know I haven't master Dutch yet. Still, A2 and haven't even finished it yet. I learn Dutch so that I'll be able to talk with my kids and teach them Dutch too. But, since the baby is still not in the plan yet for now, or even if it is in the plan, the baby can only talk after a year they're born so I have time. 

A long time ago, I thought that French is a cool language and I wanted to learn that. Until my friend taught me to start it from the numbers which got me like "What kind of language is this?" So I stopped. I kind of forgot about it until I saw more opportunities if I master the language.

Listened to people talk in French when I was in Geneva, everyone speaks French. Even for Bonjour and Merci, they like it more in French than English which I found hard because I can't say those words. Then I found so many opportunities or future opportunities and it has to be so fluent in French. So I thought, why not learn it now? There are more countries speaking French than Dutch anyway. It's more useful. Lol. 

Ya, true, H and I said that Indonesian and Dutch are the most useless languages for any kind of job abroad, except if you work in either of those two countries 😂. 

Coca-cola was bought in Saleve after trekking

So, I started my French in Duolingo. As a starter to get myself familiar with the pronunciations. A little bit of grammar in some simple sentences. Just get to know it first before I got myself involved in a really French course. I mean, I got 50% off for the French course in the place I am working 😌 but I save it for later. 

When I started it, I felt like "Hey! It's not that difficult!" Well, what terrified me to learn French is the pronunciations. That's also the reason I gave up Chinese and chose to learn Korean instead. Turns out, Chinese grammars are so much easier than Korean 😅 

But, after a week or two of learning French, I enjoy it. So much. I mean, right now, I have no pressure to learn French that makes it more enjoyable. It doesn't scare me at all. And surprisingly, it doesn't surprise me at all. It's not that it's really new concept for me. Only so many new words to learn. Yeah of course I still learn how to speak it but for other things, I am already familiar with the other European languages grammatical and such things. 

Saleve - France

It's true what people said about "When you learn more than 2 foreign languages, learning the 3rd and so on will be so much easier" That is true. All of these similarities and differences are already accessible inside your brain. You just pick it up. At least, that's in my case 😆

Every area of those languages usually has similarities. I learned Japanese for a year (mandatory at school) and didn't last because of too many symbols to memorize. I suck at memorizing similar symbols. Although I gotta admit that Japanese grammatical is a lot easier than Korean. Learned a little bit of Spanish got me familiar with genders and verb changes. Familiarity with Deutsch made it easy to learn Dutch. 

Combining them all, make me enjoy French learning. I am glad I started it as a refreshment in the middle of coding and daily routine. Well... it's still the second week of learning. So I'll update and I hope to be able to speak it soon. Oh oh oh! I can read and understand the first sentence of what Justin Trudeau said on Twitter lol!

And no, I don't have any interests in France 😆 Only the language, I suppose 😅 

Now that I think about it, I did go to Saleve, small town in France next to the Switzerland border, unexpectedly.

So, have you learned any other languages, yet? Tell me! 😎

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