Aloha!! Hopefully your eager to learn Bahasa Indonesia keeps rising up. In English, the letter W is pronounced as “double U”. But, the pronouncation is much differrent in Bahasa Indonesia that the letter W sounds ” Wae”. You should know the pronunciation first before we begin our lesson today in this article. Yeah, we will […]
All words and phrases in every languages if used in wrong time and wrong place are very possible to turn out as insults. Therefore, in Bahasa Indonesia too, you should understand the Sacred Communication Etiquette and the Manners, beside mastering the Indonesian Grammar Rules. However, we also should know and understand about Indonesian Insult Phrase, so […]
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100 Javanese Slang Words and Meaning
Bahasa Indonesia is the official Indonesian language which you can learn it in college, universities, and courses all over the world. But similar to other languages, Indonesian slang also exists in the society, TV shows, movies, and so on. Indonesian slang comes from many origins including English and also local dialects. Indonesian slang originated from […]
Hello. Selamat datang! Without a doubt, Indonesian Alphabets is one of the very first and basic thing to learn when we talked about Bahasa Indonesia. Although the formation of the alphabet has no different with English, there is a slight difference with the pronunciation (Check also Indonesian Words Pronunciation). This happened because Bahasa Indonesia has […]
Welcome back! When you learned about a certain language, you might also found a unique phenomena. One of it is a homonym or a situation when two/more words that have same pronunciation and spelling but have different literal meaning. Therefore, sometimes you need to decide which meaning is referred by the word. Here are the […]
Have you ever heard the terms BIPA or Bahasa Indonesia untuk Penutur Asing (Bahasa Indonesia for non-native speaker or foreigner)? Unlike for native speaker, teaching Bahasa Indonesia for Foreigner is slightly different because we deal with people that learn his/her second language and has foreign language(s) as their basis. Therefore, the teaching method should be […]
Selamat datang kembali! Welcome back! If long time ago, words are absorbed into a language by expedition or colonialism, through globalization, borders of the nation became eventually vanished. Shared culture, art and even language become undoubtedly possible and effortless. It is also happened between Bahasa Indonesia and English. Not only Bahasa Indonesia absorbed English vocabulary […]
Selamat datang! Have you ever confused to distinguish Bahasa Indonesia with Malay (Malaysian Language). Believe me, you are not alone because both languages derived from same root, so basically they were same. However, their development have come to different direction. Beside Malay, many of Bahasa Indonesia words absorbed many languages from local languages (Javanese, Balinese […]
Hola! Cómo estás? As you know, beside Netherlands, British, Japan, and Portuguese, Indonesia was also colonized by Spain (mostly in Eastern side of Indonesia in 16th century, alongside with Portuguese era). However, you might find lots of Indonesian Words Derived from Dutch or Portuguese Words in Indonesian Language, but there are not many words derived […]
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250+ Handy Indonesian Words – Meaning
Hi! Welcome back! Ready to add more lexical resources? Now, let’s learn about Handy Indonesian Words! tolong = please terima kasih = thank you maaf = sorry sama-sama = you’re welcome selamat pagi = good morning selamat siang = good afternoon selamat sore = good evening selamat malam = good evening/goodnight selamat datang = welcome […]