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Vocabulary

100 Balinese Swear Words You Shouldn’t Say

Selamat datang kembali di Mastering Bahasa! Welcome back! We have explored much knowledge about Bahasa Indonesia, from Indonesian Pantun to Indonesian Phonetics, until finally know about Giving Directions in Indonesian. Of course, when you learned about another language, one of the most interesting parts is the Bad Words and Its Meaning. Even though, bad words […]

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Conversation

100 Indonesian Chat Abbreviations – Examples and Meaning

Hai! How are you? Well, welcome back! I know you have learned many of Indonesian language in Mastering Bahasa. Now, let’s move forward to another part of lesson. I believe you have studied Indonesian to English Grammar and mastered Indonesian Grammar because right now we will get rid of it. We will get deeper into […]

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Linguistics

A-Z Indonesian Acronyms – Examples and Meaning

Hi, welcome back again! After deep exploration about Indonesian Phonology, including Indonesian Phonetics and Its Theory as well as Indonesian Phonemes, it is the right time to learn about another branch of linguistics–Morphology. It is a linguistics branch that study about word forming (study about morphemes). You may have learned some of it in Mastering […]

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Literature

Indonesian Pantun – Types – Examples

Selamat datang! Welcome back to another lesson of Bahasa Indonesia! In this opportunity, let’s move awhile from technical learning of Bahasa Indonesia, such as Indonesian Prefixes or Indonesian Phonetics Theory Examples, and explore more culture and literature-related of Bahasa Indonesia. Both in Indonesia and Malaysia, we know an ancient poetry called pantun. Unlike poetry that is […]

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Linguistics

Indonesian Homophone – Understanding – Example

Welcome back! You have learned Indonesian to English Grammar as well as about Giving Directions in Indonesian and many more. What else do we need to learn? I tell you, there’s plenty. But, this time let’s focus to more specific linguistics lesson, which is about Indonesian Homophone. What is homophone? Homo means ‘same’ and phone […]

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Linguistics

Learn Indonesian Phonetics – Theory – Examples

Hi! Welcome back! Ready for new lesson? After you have learned another basic Indonesian linguistics comprehension in Indonesian Phonemes, this time we will visit another part of phonology, which is about Indonesian Phonetics. As you know, unlike animals or plants, humans were given a different speaking anatomy as well as innate language device that made […]

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Literature

Indonesian Phonemes – Types – Formula – Example

Welcome back to Mastering Bahasa! Ready for new lesson? Of course, you are. After learning that there is significant difference between Indonesian Alphabets and its phonemes, let’s move to another level. In case you forget, I’ll remind you a little. Phonemes is part of phonology, which is about speech sound/language sound, while alphabets is the […]

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Speaking

Learn about Consonant Phoneme in English and Indonesian

Selamat datang! As a verbal communication, language is a universal system. All languages in the world consist phonemes, morphemes, symbols (check Indonesian Alphabets), and so on. But, right now we will focus in one very specific aspect, which is about Consonant Phonemes in English and Indonesian. Consonant phonemes is called contoid, which is a speech […]

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Linguistics

English Phonology vs Indonesian Phonology – Learn with Experts

Let’s learn about Indonesian Phonology. What is phonology? Sometimes people got confused between phonology (phonemes) and alphabets. However, to learn about phonology you should also master Indonesian Alphabets. To shorten time, the main difference of phonemes and alphabets are their form. Phonemes is set of language sounds/speech sounds, while alphabets is the symbol. On the […]

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Syllabus

Indonesian Consonant Clusters – Formula – Definition – Examples

Hi! Welcome back! Clerk. Bright. Proud. Slave Those four words are a random group of words. But, there is one similarity shared by them, consonant clusters. After learning about most basic Indonesian language like Indonesian Alphabets, I think it is the right time to explore more. Consonant clusters is the consonant version of Indonesian Diphtongs. […]