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Instant Indonesian
Revised Edition
Instant Indonesian
How to Express 1,000 Different Ideas,
With Just 100 Key Words and Phrases
by Stuart Robson & Julian Millie
Revised by Katherine Davidsen
TUTTLE Publishing
Tokyo | Rutland, Vermont | Singapore
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Revised edition
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Contents
PART 1: WORDS 1–10
Eating and Drinking
PART 2: WORDS 11–20
Social Etiquette in Public
PART 3: WORDS 21–30
Times and Seasons
PART 4: WORDS 31–40
Personal Pronouns
PART 5: WORDS 41–50
Religion and Culture
PART 6: WORDS 51–60
Social Chatting
PART 7: WORDS 61–70
Social Relations and Family
PART 8: WORDS 71–80
Indonesian Names
PART 9: WORDS 81–90
Verb Prefixes
PART 10: WORDS 91–100
OTHER USEFUL PHRASES
Numbers
Emergency Expressions
Some Common Signs about Town
Preface
A little language goes a long way!
It is a well-established fact that most people of average intelligence and education use a vocabulary of only five or six hundred words in going about their everyday affairs. The reason for this, of course, is that it is possible to express a variety of thoughts by using the same words in different combinations. Each additional word exponentially increases the number of thoughts one can express. Another obvious reason why a limited vocabulary is enough to get most people through the day is that they are primarily involved in basic situations that are repeated day after day.
The aim of this little book is to lay the foundation for expressing yourself in Indonesian. It will introduce 100 basic words that can be fitted together in a limited number of structures to form full sentences. Other common words are also listed, so that by substituting these in the appropriate places you will be able to say 1,000 things. And there are notes to help you when using this language in real situations.
English speakers will find it particularly easy to make basic sentences in Indonesian as the word order is generally the same as in English, there are no definite or indefinite articles or verb “to be,” and no complicated rules about changing the form of words to express singular and plural or the tense of verbs.
What Is Indonesian?
Indonesian is the national language of the Republic of Indonesia. In Indonesian, it is called Bahasa Indonesia, which just means “the language of Indonesia.” Indonesian is a form of Malay, a Southeast Asian language with a long history, and is a member of a family of languages called Austronesian, which is widely spread in the Pacific region.
Before World War II, when Indonesia was still the Netherlands East