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    Basic Indonesian: Downloadable Audio Included
    Basic Indonesian: Downloadable Audio Included
    Basic Indonesian: Downloadable Audio Included
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    Basic Indonesian: Downloadable Audio Included

    By Stuart Robson and Yacinta Kurniasih

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    This is a user-friendly and comprehensive beginner Indonesian book and a great way to learn Indonesian.

    Divided into 28 graded lessons, Basic Indonesian provides fill-in-the-blank exercises, quizzes, word puzzles and question-and-answer practices to reinforce Indonesian language learning. Extensive cultural notes are provided along with detailed tips on etiquette and appropriate cultural behavior in the world's largest Islamic society. It has been made to fill the need for a one-volume Indonesian course book which can be used for either self-study or classroom use by those who are keen to make a start on mastering the Indonesian language. The users might be students in universities or schools outside Indonesia, or expatriates living in Indonesia. The stories are set in Jakarta (apart from an excursion to Yohyakarta), are original and describe realistic situations, contain some interesting cultural sidelights, and display a lively mix of narrative and dialogue. Chapters include clear Language notes, which, help explain the grammar and build a solid foundation for further steps forward in the study of Indonesian.

    The MP3 Audio-CD is to be used along with the book and reinforces pronunciation while building better listening comprehension.

    Key features of Basic Indonesian are:
    • 28 graded lessons.
    • Multiple types of accompanying exercises.
    • Entertaining stories and dialogues in manga-style cartoon strips.
    • Clear grammar and usage notes.
    • Interesting cultural notes.
    • Accompanying MP3 audio-CD
    Available separately--Try Tuttle's Indonesian Flash Cards to reinforce the vocabulary you've learned with Basic Indonesian!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuttle Publishing
    Release dateDec 6, 2011
    ISBN9781462901654
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      Basic Indonesian - Stuart Robson

      LESSON 1

      Getting to Know Each Other

      Berkenalan

      WORDLIST

      N.B. These wordlists contain only words that are not discussed in the language notes.

      CULTURAL NOTES

      1. As a greeting, we can use selamat with the time of day: pagi for morning, siang for the middle of the day, soré for the late afternoon, and malam for night, thus good morning and so forth. It is best to add a term of address for the recipient, as then our greeting sounds less abrupt: Bu for an older lady, or Pak for an older man. Or else add somebody’s name, if you know it.

      2. The family (keluarga) is very important; it is the main part of our social context. We should pay attention to who’s who, especially someone’s parents, and note the order of siblings — there are particular terms for them, kakak for elder sibling (regardless of gender), and adik for younger sibling (again regardless of gender).

      3. We use the word bapak father for our own father, and ayah for someone else’s father. The meaning is the same, but ayah is considered more refined.

      LANGUAGE NOTES

      The simplest kind of sentence is the equational sentence, in which we say A = B.

      The first part of this sentence is the topic or subject, and the rest is what is being said about it, or the predicate.

      These slots (A and B) can be filled by a noun or pronoun, either a single word or a group of words. In its simplest form, there is no need to put in a word to indicate the equation (=), like the English is, are and so on.

      Examples:

      Saya mahasiswa. I am a student.

      (A)          (B)

      Here a pronoun, saya, occupies the A slot, and a noun, mahasiswa, occupies the B slot. So the sentence conveys a piece of information about I, that I am something, namely a student. There is no word here for am – it would not be right to put one in, so an English-speaker should avoid the temptation to supply something in this position.

      Itu dosén. That is a lecturer.

      (A)          (B)

      In this case, the word itu, that, occupies the A slot; we can regard it as a pronoun, meaning that thing, person. The rest of the sentence explains who that is. Similarly, we have the word ini, this (thing, person). There is no word for the English is in this sentence.

      Before going any further, we should discuss possession. In Indonesian, this is expressed by means of word-order, and not with a word for of or apostrophe’s. The rule is that the possessor follows the thing possessed. So we can give a noun, and follow it by a pronoun, to say who the thing belongs to, e.g.

      rumah saya the house of me, i.e. my house.

      This is not yet a full sentence; but it could be, if we add a subject:

      Ini rumah saya. This is my house.

      We will talk about personal pronouns again shortly, but can comment here that there are no changes equivalent to I-me-my in English.

      Finally, you will have noticed that in Indonesian we don’t use words like English a, an or the. They are not part of Indonesian grammar, but you do need to supply them when translating from Indonesian to English.

      LATIHAN 1 EXERCISE 1

      Berkenalan

      Getting to Know Each Other

      A. Pertanyaan untuk bacaan | Questions for the reading

      Jawablah pertanyaan-pertanyaan di bawah ini sesuai dengan isi bacaan! (Answer the questions below in accordance with the content of the reading!)

        1. P: Di mana Sari belajar?

      J: ________________________________________

        2. P: Siapa Joel dan dari mana dia?

      J: ________________________________________

        3. P: Apa pekerjaan bapak dan ibu Sari?

      J: ________________________________________

        4. P: Berapa jumlah saudara Sari?

      J: ________________________________________

        5. P: Siapa itu Agus dan Ratih?

      J: ________________________________________

      NB. P = Pertanyaan (Question); J = Jawaban (Answer)

      B. Menyimak | Listening comprehension

      Dengarkanlah dan perhatikanlah baik-baik Tape Latihan 1 untuk menjawab pertanyaan di bawah ini! (Listen carefully and pay attention to the Exercise Tape 1 to answer the questions below!)

        1. P: Apakah bapak dan ibu Sari lahir di Jakarta?

      J: ________________________________________

        2. Siapa yang memilih nama untuk Sari ketika dia baru lahir?

      J: ________________________________________

        3. P: Binatang piaraan apa yang dimiliki keluarga Sari?

      J: ________________________________________

        4. P: Berapa umur binatang itu dan siapa namanya?

      J: ________________________________________

        5. P: Apakah hobi Ratih?

      J: ________________________________________

        6. P: Apa yang biasanya dilakukan oléh ibu Sari pada hari Minggu?

      J: ________________________________________

        7. P: Di mana Joel bertemu Sari?

      J: ________________________________________

        8. P: Bahasa apa yang dipakai di rumah Sari selain bahasa Indonesia?

      J: ________________________________________

        9. P: Sudah berapa tahun bapak Sari bekerja menjadi dosén?

      J: ________________________________________

      10. P: Apakah rumah sakit di mana ibu Sari bekerja jauh dari rumah meréka?

      J: ________________________________________

      C. Menulis | Writing

      Ceritakanlah tentang keluarga Sari dengan menulis kalimat-kalimat seperti contoh nomor 1! (Tell about Sari’s family by writing sentences like example 1!)

      Foto keluarga Sari

        1. (Sari): Sari mahasiswa dan dia berumur 22 tahun

        2. (Agus):___________________________

        3. (Bapak Sari):___________________________

        4. (Ibu Sari):___________________________

        5. (Ratih):___________________________

      D. Teka-teki | Puzzle

      Carilah kata-kata yang menunjukkan pekerjaan dalam kolom-kolom di bawah ini! (Look for the words which refer to a profession in the columns below!)

      Tulislah kata yang dapat kamu temukan! (Write down the words you have

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