#67 Speaking Part 2 : Describe a program or app in your computer or phone

 

What the app/program is

When and where you found it

How you use it

and How you feel about it

There are many useful programs in my smartphones. However, I would like to share my experience when I use one of my favorite application all the time, which is Spendee.

So, this is a financial application that is very useful to track my expense. I found this application in 2019, when I read an article in my favorite website, which is The Economist. So based on that article, many millennial generation like me, are not very aware that they are very loose in managing their expense. So, after reading that article, it suggested me to download an application called Spendee.

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So, when I want to use Spendee, I will open it and then I write down my daily spending. For instance, I bought for around three hundreds and thousand rupiah, just for buy a clothes  for a month. So I will write it down. And then, it will accumulate my monthly expense.So, I think it is a state-of-art application, because it could help me to manage my finance and also I think many people should download it, especially they have a financial problem like me. So when my friend consult about their situation that is related with their finance, I would probably recommend them to use this application.

1. "useful program in my smartphones". Kalimat ini memiliki 2 kesalahan. Pertama, kesahalan pada pemilihan preposisi. Kata benda "Phone" preposisi yang tepat adalah |by. ~ We keep in contact by phone but we rarely see each other. | on the. ~ We spoke on the phone the other day. | over the ~ I haven't seen her but we spoke over the phone. |Lalu kesalahan kedua, smartphone di sini adalah plural. Padahal yang dimaksud oleh speaker adalah singular, sehingga tidak perlu ada ekstra 's' diujung kata.
2. "one of my favorite application". Kesalahan umum sekali jika Speaker menggunakan ekspresi kalimat "one of blablabla". Seharusnya plural, sehingga harus ada ekstra 's' di akhir kata.
3. "an article in my favorite webiste". Sudah seharusnya menggunakan preposisi "on" jika dipasangkan dengan kata benda website. | PREP. on ~ You can find details of all our products on our website. |
4. "many millennial generation like me". Seharusnya plural, sehingga harus ada ekstra 's' di akhir kata.
5. three hundreds and thousand rupiah. Kesahalan yang sama pernah terulang ketika melakukan Writing Task 1, dimana two billion dollar seharusnya tidak ditulis dengan ekstra s di ujung kata "billion". Malah seharusnya harus ada ekstra 's' di ujung kata Rupiah. Kalimat yang baik dan benar adalah " three hundred and thousand rupiahs"
6. just for buy a clothes. Ada tiga kesalahan fatal. Pertama kata preposisi for diikuti oleh kata kerja buy, tanpa memiliki struktur SPOK yang jelas. mungkin lebih tepat jika diposisikan sebagai kata benda menjadi "for buying". Kesalahan kedua "a clothes" tidak konsisten apakah bermakna plural atau singular. Seharusnya adalah "just for buying clothes"
7. "I bought for around three hundred and thousand rupiahs, just for buying clothes for a month." Sepertinya kata ini memiliki konteks yang kurang tepat. Akan lebih tepat jika menggunakan kata kerja "I spend for around 300.000 just for buying clothes"
8. "So when my friend consult about their". S-V agreement nya lagi dan lagi tidak konsisten :(((
9. "is related with their finance".....Lagi lagi kelupaan kan wkwk. Preposisi yang cocok untuk kata kerja "relate" adalah "to". |PREP. to~ Our product needs an image that people can relate to |