14 Jan 10 Indonesian Class

Indonesian Class to Improve Your Bahasa

Interested in joining an Indonesian class to help you learn or improve your Indonesian language skills? Nowadays there are several very good Indonesian classes to offer for those who would like to learn Indonesian language from native Indonesian teachers. And for those who are very busy and can hardly have time for themselves, except on weekends, you can also join an online Indonesian class which has more flexible schedule and therefore can easily fit your daily tight schedule.

This kind of online Indonesian class is gaining more and more popularity today especially among business people and office employees. Most of them are very busy and it’d be very lucky if they could find an empty void in between their daily programs. An online Indonesian class enables them to fit their course within their schedule perfectly. Sometimes they have more free time after work. But sometimes they only have more spare time to learn Bahasa Indonesia only on weekends, when most of them spend their times with their family or friends.

Indonesian Class – Private or Group?

Indonesian Class

There are two kinds of Indonesian classes, private and group. So the question is: Which one is the better one? The answer depends largely on each individual’s needs. One learner, especially one who has never learned Indonesian language before, would fit more into a private Indonesian class, while others who have learned some basic Indonesian language before and able to converse in basic daily Indonesian, could feel that the group one would fit them better.

However for those who would prefer to take a private Indonesian class, they might have a consideration that a private class would be much better than a group class since in private teaching and learning, they’d be able to gain much more lessons than within a group. It is true. Within a private class, a learner would be able to get more lessons than those within a group. Another advantage is that the learner will get the teacher’s full attention and therefore it would be much easier for the teacher to try to improve the learner’s Indonesian speaking and listening skills.

There are also some advantages if you are more interested in learning within a group. By joining a group, you can learn not to make mistakes done by other learners. You can also learn the wrong pronunciation done by others. Learning within a group is also more fun. You will not get bored easily and the class tends to be less serious. However there are also some pitfalls of learning within a group which is the teacher will not be able to focus only on one student. Therefore it is highly recommended for a beginner to enroll in a private Indonesian class rather than in a group. Another disadvantage would be that sometimes when you are learning within a group, you can not protest nor ask the teacher to skip some lessons which you think are too easy for you, especially when that particular subject is relatively new for the other learners who would not mind at all to learn that lesson. In this case, you will have no choice but to again learn the lessons you’ve mastered. This would definitely waste your valuable time.

Within a private Indonesian class, the learners are free to tell the teachers what particular subjects they want to learn. It is also possible to ask the teachers to improve their special aspects of the language, whether it is the speaking, listening or writing skills, or even mixed of all.

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05 Jan 10 Indonesian Conversation

Some Facts in Indonesian Conversation

By: IndonesianLanguage.net

Nowadays more and more English speakers are looking for Indonesian conversation class to enable them to communicate in Bahasa Indonesia (or, Indonesian language). Some of them are also interested in learning Indonesian grammar, but most students are more interested in practical Indonesian conversation class only with the consideration that the lesson would be easier for them to learn. However little do they know that to be able to speak Indonesian language fluently, or at least to be able to comprehend the Indonesian conversation, they must first try to learn some basic Indonesian lessons first before they can really master the Indonesian conversation.

Just like the English language, some words and sentences used in daily Indonesian conversation are a bit different from the formal Indonesian language used by news broadcaster on TVs. That is why many English speakers who have learned Indonesian language for quite some time still have difficulty in understanding daily Indonesian conversation, particularly those used among teenagers, as Indonesian language is still developing and thus the old Indonesian is a little bit different from the modern Indonesian used today.

Indonesian Conversation and Grammar

Most words used in daily Indonesian conversation are colloquial and some of them are rarely used in formal Indonesian. More and more colloquial vocabularies are created almost each day, making the older Indonesian generations sometimes find it hard to understand today’s Indonesian conversation among teenagers.

Being the most populated city in Indonesia and the capital of Indonesia itself, Jakarta has become the trend setter for the formation of new Indonesian colloquial words and the influence has spread throughout Indonesia. The word of “gue” or “gua”, which means “I” in English, derives from Jakarta, and now has widely been used among them who consider themselves to be cool or young and trendy. We can see just how different the formal Indonesian language and colloquial one when we see the Indonesian soap operas on the television. For those who are interested in learning how to speak Indonesian, it is strongly recommended to learn the formal Indonesian first before you learn the colloquial words and sentences used mostly in daily Indonesian conversation. After you learn the formal Indonesian language, you will find it easier to learn the Indonesian colloquial than the other way round.

Daily Indonesian Conversation

Another interesting fact in Indonesian conversation is that the Indonesian people themselves do NOT follow the Indonesian grammar rule when they speak in Indonesian, but still you need to learn some basic Indonesian grammar to understand some word formation used in daily conversation.

Indonesian conversation is pretty easy to understand as long as you have learned some basic Indonesian grammar before and you know how to speak in formal Indonesian language. You do not have to learn the whole Indonesian grammar to be able to speak Indonesian as I have mentioned earlier before, even the Indonesians themselves do not follow the grammar when they speak the language.

Due to the fact that there are so many dialects in Indonesia, the daily Indonesian conversation in Jakarta is a little bit different from the one used among East Javanese and that in western part of Sumatra and other places in Indonesia. But you don’t have to worry about it. As long as you can communicate in formal Indonesian language, you can still use the language throughout Indonesia despite the different dialects among the Indonesians.

It is very interesting to know that new slang Indonesian words are created almost each day. Below are some examples of colloquial Indonesian words commonly used in Indonesian conversation: