Indonesian for Beginner
If you want to start learning Indonesian from the scratch, you’ve come to the right place! This course is perfect for those who have never learned Bahasa Indonesia before, or, those who’ve learned Indonesian for some time but still struggle when they have to make sentences and response to a question.
What you’ll learn:
- Phrases (word orders)
- Preposition
- Most used adverbs & words
- Question words
- Numbers (including: telling time, prices, measurement, etc)
- How to form sentences using the correct structure (word orders)
- Complex sentences with noun clauses
- Comparison
- Passive Voice
- Conversation
We provide many types of exercises for all levels, such as reading comprehension, sentence making, translating, audio files, etc.
General Indonesian
- Enhance your communication skills
- Increase your confidence
- Gain a wider cultural awareness
- Expand your career opportunities
- Enhance your academic performance
- Develop personal skills
Ready to enrol on a General Indonesian language course?
Taking a general Indonesian language course can offer numerous benefits. It can help you improve your communication skills, increase your confidence, become more culturally aware, expand your career opportunities, improve your academic performance, and achieve personal growth. With these benefits in mind, it makes sense that so many people are interested in taking a General Indonesian language course.
Conversational Indonesian: The real way people talk
If you asked most people why they want to learn Indonesian, the answer would likely be: I want to be able to hold a conversation with confidence. That, in essence, is conversational Indonesian. It is the ability to confidently speak Indonesian with native speakers. It is not necessarily about being fluent in Indonesian. They are very different skills and for most Indonesian learners, the goal is to learn conversational Indonesian.
What is conversational Indonesian?
Conversational Indonesian is the language used by everyday speakers. It is casual and informal. It is the type of Indonesian that is used in grocery stores, at the gym or when speaking with friends and family. It is, for most speakers, the language used to communicate. While formal Indonesian relies on specific rules and structure, conversational Indonesian is much freer. It provides flexibility and style, making it easier to use and learn, as well as more fun to use.
How is conversational Indonesian different?
The biggest difference in conversational Indonesian is its lack of formality. Below are two examples of a phrase in Indonesian:
“Apakah Anda mempunyai waktu untuk bertemu saya besok?”
“Anda/kamu punya waktu ga buat ketemu saya besok?”
The first is how you would learn from a textbook. It is generally the way you learn Indonesian conversation in a school. The second phrase is what you are likely to hear in the real world. It is how most people speak when they are comfortable.
You are not likely to ever see a phrase such as this in an Indonesian textbook.
Indonesian for Special Purposes
The two most common fields within this course are Indonesian for Occupational Purposes (where the learner has work related needs, such as military, business, medical fields, etc), and Indonesian for Academic Purposes (such as exam preparation).
This course would generally start with a needs analysis which would define what the learner has to do using Indonesian – the situations in which they will need to communicate (eg business meetings, international conferences, university lectures, internet forums), their interlocutors and role relationships (eg client-salesman, teacher-student, nurse-patient, peer-peer), the tasks they will have to carry out (eg writing an academic essay, negotiating contracts, answering forum posts), and the language needed for those tasks in terms of topic related lexis, functions and structures etc. The course is then designed to cover these areas.