I've been to learn Indonesian language for 6 years and now work for the Dutch embassy in Indonesia. Indonesian not as easy as that. Indonesian for least has 3 levels speaking and those are needed to speak. yet in fact the Javanese language is much more difficult and confusing rather than Indonesian, there are linguistic hierarchy consist of 3 classes you should use when you are speaking, like ngoko, kromo, and kromo inggil, by which those 3 classes contains totally different vocabulary and grammar, for exp: - I would like to meet him / I wanna meet him - saya hendak menemuinya (formal Indonesian) - aku mau bertemu dengannya (informal Indonesian) - gue pengen ketemu dia (Indonesian slang) - aku tak nemoni dheweke/aku arep nemoni de'e (Javanese ngoko) - kulo kajeng manggihi piyambakipun (Javanese kromo) - dalem kerso manggihi panjenenganipun (Javanese kromo inggil) That's crazy, isn't it?
Indonesian was so easy after studying Korean for years!! I was at the same level after 3 months in Indonesian that took me 4 years to get to in Korean! lolll - R
Evan and Rachel wait is that a sign or what?! I studying Korean since 2013 and I studied shortly last year Japanese but I didn't complete it and today my friend is suggesting me to study Indonesian as a 3 months new language and as I have Indonesian friends... I will give it another thought as I wish complete Japanese or spanich. :) P'. s I wish learn Tagalog more for an unknown reason as I liked it
Evan and Rachel If you would have studied Indonesian first, then Korean your progress in Korean would have been faster. There are already some grammatical similarities like agglutination, even though both languages are not related. Madonna Youssef Indonesian is considered of the easiest Austronesian languages, so learning Tagalog or any closer Filipino languages will be easier. Even the distantly related Hawaiian or Maori. My Auntie who speaks Bisaya and Tagalog lived in Indonesia for nine months and was surprised how much she understood, when she listened carefully. No classes or attempt to really learn Indonesian.
Indonesian is one of the languages who almost made the cut in my crazy 2017 ten languages project. Unfortunately, I had only ten slots but I definitely want to study it someday. And even more now that I saw your video :)
Reason #8 I would like to add to what makes Indonesian/Malay an easy language to learn besides three mentioned: 1. No gender 2. No singular-plural (a vague concept since plural can be hinted by "-" or the word "banyak/ramai" and "-" is not always used for plural as it can be used for words like "holy-moly" and "hocus-pocus" in English where you change the first letter of the word and sometimes random letters in the words. For example: hingar-bingar, hiruk-pikuk, haru-biru)
What is the easy way to learn other languages about this;) Indonesian is so really nice(people and language)💕💕 I think that most Thai and Indonesian people tend to have similar habits.. Absolutely,Thailand and Indonesia are good neighbors to each other.. Greetings from Thailand❤❤
Indonesia has a lot of local/tradition language from Aceh to Papua, and it's very different word and meaning. We talk each other in local language. But, the special one about Indonesia, when i travelled to Sumatra, Sulawesi, Borneo, Bali, etc, i can talk in Bahasa Indonesia with local people.
Let me know if you decide to do it and I can send you resources/set you up with a language partner. You can always shoot me a message via fiel@between3worlds.com
Yes. Indonesian is easy .. Saya makan sekarang.-> I am eating now Saya makan kemarin. -> I ate yesterday Saya akan makan. -> I will eat Saya sudah makan.-> I have eaten
I’m native speaker. But for some unknown reason, my bahasa indonesia exam’s result at school had never been higher than 7. While i could get 9 in english. I don’t speak english fluently, though. But I do speak Dutch daily.
I watched this because I'll be going to a basic Indonesian workshop at my school later today. I was told the language is very easy and it makes me want to learn it (especially after all the struggles I'm experiencing with Korean right now). Out of curiosity, what are other trend languages right now? I didn't even know there were any!
Hi Lindsay, great video! How's your Bahasa Indonesia now? Feel up for some challenge? 😈 Can you please spell this : *Mempertanggung-jawabkan* *Also, try some of this tongue twister (if you dare)* : - Kuku kaki kiri kakekku kaku - Saya sebal sama situ sebab situ suka senyum-senyum sama saya, sehingga sekarang saya suka senyum-senyum sendiri saja. - Dudung, ambilkan dandang di dinding dong, Dung! - Kelapa di Parut, Kepala di Garuk (3x) - Toko-toko di kota kita tutup ketika kita tetap buka toko kita. - Rika tarik-tarik rok Rina dan Rina tarik-tarik rok Rika. Rok Rika robek-robek dan rusak, Rok Rina rusak-rusak dan robek. - Jangan coba-coba cium cucu-cucuku, kalau cuma mau cium cucu-cucuku cuma-cuma. - Ular melingkar-lingkar di pagar bundar Please.. please.. please do that. I bet it will be a lot of fun to see you try spelling some of that! PS : It will not actually help your Indonesian languange though.. sorry 😁
English words that come from Indonesian-Malay include orangutan ("forest man"), ketchup (which originally referred to a wide variety of thick sauces), and amok. Part of the difference between written Indonesian and written Malay--in the Roman alphabet--is due to Indonesia and Malaysia having been Dutch and British colonies respectively: words that start with "Y" in English and Malay start with "J" in Dutch and Indonesian!
Nope, we use Y&J normally, the difference more to accent & some same words but with different meaning, for example in Malaysia budak means kids or children, while Indonesian budak means slave, & kids is anak not budak
Ummm... Actually, yes, we dont have any verb conjugation, BUT WE HAVE "Imbuhan." It's something like affixes and IT MAKES SOME LEARNERS CRAZY. So yeah, brace urself everyone. And happy learning! Semoga bisa cepat ngomong bahasa Indonesia.
I would take up Indonesian, only I really should concentrate on Japanese. Je vais aller à japon en mars, parce que j'ai un nouveau travail comme un enseignant
Pas de problème! L'indonésie sera encore là pour toi! Et si tu arrives à étudier l'indonésien, envoie-moi un email par mon site-web et je t'aiderai! Merci pour le commentaire!
Especially colloquial Indonesian can be very detailed and dynamic to the point that I could sometimes get lost in the middle of conversation when hanging out with friends back at home. I didn't even know that the word "meper" existed :P We do not have articles! True! This is probably the reason why I went crazy when preparing for german DAF-test. Great video, Lindsay!
Actually, it was not very surprising you didn't know it. It's not Bahasa Indonesia, you won't find that word on KBBI. It's 'bahasa gaul' or 'slang language', mostly used on big city. I believe it's origin was from either Betawi or Sundanese people kamuslengkap.com/kamus/sunda-indonesia/arti-kata/meper glosar.id/index.php/print/,283-meper,Bahasa+GAUL-adalah.xhtml _Meper :_ - mengusapkan benda kotor pada batu, kayu agar lepas (Sunda) - mengelapkan tangan yang kotor atau terkena sesautu secara diam-diam, bisa ke tembok, baju orang lain, dll (Gaul) PS : Ardhi, kurang nongkrong kali ente bro, bukannya nama ente Sunda itu? Hehe.
Really?? I am native betawi, and I grow up with that world. So i guess it's betawi adapted into colloquial Indonesian, just like gue, elo, nongkrong, mangap, etc?
When you gave your initial greeting, from some dark place in my subconscious there surfaced the reply _khabar baik!_. IIRC the exchange literally goes, "What news? --- Good news!" I suppose like you could say in English, "How ye doin'? Doin' fine!" Then when you got on to the numbers I started recalling the Malagasy numerals, isa, rua, telo, efatra ... dimi ... folo ... (no don't ask!)
I've trying to learn Indonesian language for sometimes now. But I don't have many Indonesian friends to talk to. So if anyone interested to help me with language please reply
No he means the largest archipelago nations. Canada and Finland have more islands than Indonesia indeed, but they are not archipelago country. So Indonesia is
Hi... indonesian here ....265 million people are waiting you to come to indonesia and speak with us. And 17 thousands Island and myriad of culture to experience. Indonesia offer fully funded scholarship darmasiswa so than u can enjoy indonesia for free
Indonesia is easiest language in world, many foreign just need few month to speak Indonesian very well but also Indonesia language is hardest languages in world because im Indonesian but i can not speak bahasa indonesia baku/formal properly! :D SorryMyBadEnglish
I'm Indonesian. I think the best reason to learn Indonesian is that Indonesia is a huge country, fourth most populous in the world which 80%-90% of its people can't speak English well.
This is fascinating, but can I give some sort of criticism? I was born in Indonesia, and it's a bit distracting how you pronounce my country. It's pronounce In-doh-NAY-shia.
Saya Orang Somalia Saya Suka Bahasa Indonesia
I've been to learn Indonesian language for 6 years and now work for the Dutch embassy in Indonesia. Indonesian not as easy as that. Indonesian for least has 3 levels speaking and those are needed to speak. yet in fact the Javanese language is much more difficult and confusing rather than Indonesian, there are linguistic hierarchy consist of 3 classes you should use when you are speaking, like ngoko, kromo, and kromo inggil, by which those 3 classes contains totally different vocabulary and grammar, for exp:
- I would like to meet him / I wanna meet him
- saya hendak menemuinya (formal Indonesian)
- aku mau bertemu dengannya (informal Indonesian)
- gue pengen ketemu dia (Indonesian slang)
- aku tak nemoni dheweke/aku arep nemoni de'e (Javanese ngoko)
- kulo kajeng manggihi piyambakipun (Javanese kromo)
- dalem kerso manggihi panjenenganipun (Javanese kromo inggil)
That's crazy, isn't it?
Wow I am Javanese, born in Jakarta, and can't even speak Javanese. Your Javanese knowladge is amazing
Indonesian was so easy after studying Korean for years!! I was at the same level after 3 months in Indonesian that took me 4 years to get to in Korean! lolll - R
Evan and Rachel 😂😂😂🙊
Evan and Rachel wait is that a sign or what?! I studying Korean since 2013 and I studied shortly last year Japanese but I didn't complete it and today my friend is suggesting me to study Indonesian as a 3 months new language and as I have Indonesian friends... I will give it another thought as I wish complete Japanese or spanich. :)
P'. s I wish learn Tagalog more for an unknown reason as I liked it
Evan and Rachel If you would have studied Indonesian first, then Korean your progress in Korean would have been faster. There are already some grammatical similarities like agglutination, even though both languages are not related.
Madonna Youssef Indonesian is considered of the easiest Austronesian languages, so learning Tagalog or any closer Filipino languages will be easier. Even the distantly related Hawaiian or Maori. My Auntie who speaks Bisaya and Tagalog lived in Indonesia for nine months and was surprised how much she understood, when she listened carefully. No classes or attempt to really learn Indonesian.
of course it's easy, but the prefix often makes Western people confused.
You inspired me to learn Indonesian! I just ordered my book today
Indonesian is one of the languages who almost made the cut in my crazy 2017 ten languages project. Unfortunately, I had only ten slots but I definitely want to study it someday. And even more now that I saw your video :)
Yay! Definitely a fun one! :D
Reason #8
I would like to add to what makes Indonesian/Malay an easy language to learn besides three mentioned:
1. No gender
2. No singular-plural (a vague concept since plural can be hinted by "-" or the word "banyak/ramai" and "-" is not always used for plural as it can be used for words like "holy-moly" and "hocus-pocus" in English where you change the first letter of the word and sometimes random letters in the words. For example: hingar-bingar, hiruk-pikuk, haru-biru)
Woohoo! I LOVE those plural words. Can't believe we forgot to mention that!
Trima kasih... Sorry they didn't make the video... When we mentioned articles we also assumed gender, but you're definitely right!
What is the easy way to learn other languages about this;)
Indonesian is so really nice(people and language)💕💕
I think that most Thai and Indonesian people tend to have similar habits..
Absolutely,Thailand and Indonesia are good neighbors to each other..
Greetings from Thailand❤❤
love Thai.. Sawadhikka.. :)
Love thai food, thai culture and their adorable lovely accent and diversity from south to north:)
Warm regards from Java 🇮🇩🇹🇭
So easy to fall in love with a country and its language,Indonesia seems a cool country, thanks for the video! :)))
Indonesia is so cool - such a vast country! :)
Indonesia é um pais muito legal! Vem visitar kk. Muito obrigado!
Esther and her Little World TERIMAKASIH TELAH MENYUKAI NEGARA SAYA..:)
Esther and her Little World just come to bali (im live in jakarta) GO THERE ! IT'S COOL IN THERE !
Indonesia has a lot of local/tradition language from Aceh to Papua, and it's very different word and meaning. We talk each other in local language.
But, the special one about Indonesia, when i travelled to Sumatra, Sulawesi, Borneo, Bali, etc, i can talk in Bahasa Indonesia with local people.
No conjugation and no verb tenses? Sign me up!
I know right! :D
Let me know if you decide to do it and I can send you resources/set you up with a language partner.
You can always shoot me a message via fiel@between3worlds.com
Yes. Indonesian is easy ..
Saya makan sekarang.-> I am eating now
Saya makan kemarin. -> I ate yesterday
Saya akan makan. -> I will eat
Saya sudah makan.-> I have eaten
Chinese is largely free of conjugation and tense too.
No cases, no plural form (explicit form use reduplication)
I’m native speaker. But for some unknown reason, my bahasa indonesia exam’s result at school had never been higher than 7. While i could get 9 in english. I don’t speak english fluently, though. But I do speak Dutch daily.
Most Indonesian are helpful
So dont hasitate ask for learning Bahasa Indonesia, they all will glad to assist you...Selamat belajar semoga sukses🙏
I work in customer service. Being able to say pleasantries in a few languages, even ASL, makes people so happy!
Saya suka belajar bahasa Indonesia
christy M ngobrol sama saya aja mbak
Apa kabar? Videonya keren dong! Terima kasih banyak ya. Istri dan anak saya orang Indonesia :)
I watched this because I'll be going to a basic Indonesian workshop at my school later today. I was told the language is very easy and it makes me want to learn it (especially after all the struggles I'm experiencing with Korean right now). Out of curiosity, what are other trend languages right now? I didn't even know there were any!
Thank you for another great video. Keep up the great work. I always look forward to your emails and advice on languages.
Thanks Mark! :D
Hi Lindsay, great video!
How's your Bahasa Indonesia now? Feel up for some challenge? 😈
Can you please spell this : *Mempertanggung-jawabkan*
*Also, try some of this tongue twister (if you dare)* :
- Kuku kaki kiri kakekku kaku
- Saya sebal sama situ sebab situ suka senyum-senyum sama saya, sehingga sekarang saya suka senyum-senyum sendiri saja.
- Dudung, ambilkan dandang di dinding dong, Dung!
- Kelapa di Parut, Kepala di Garuk (3x)
- Toko-toko di kota kita tutup ketika kita tetap buka toko kita.
- Rika tarik-tarik rok Rina dan Rina tarik-tarik rok Rika. Rok Rika robek-robek dan rusak, Rok Rina rusak-rusak dan robek.
- Jangan coba-coba cium cucu-cucuku, kalau cuma mau cium cucu-cucuku cuma-cuma.
- Ular melingkar-lingkar di pagar bundar
Please.. please.. please do that. I bet it will be a lot of fun to see you try spelling some of that!
PS : It will not actually help your Indonesian languange though.. sorry 😁
What the nice reasons... good luck for everyone who wants to learn bahasa indonesia....
English words that come from Indonesian-Malay include orangutan ("forest man"), ketchup (which originally referred to a wide variety of thick sauces), and amok.
Part of the difference between written Indonesian and written Malay--in the Roman alphabet--is due to Indonesia and Malaysia having been Dutch and British colonies respectively: words that start with "Y" in English and Malay start with "J" in Dutch and Indonesian!
Nope, we use Y&J normally, the difference more to accent & some same words but with different meaning, for example in Malaysia budak means kids or children, while Indonesian budak means slave, & kids is anak not budak
James Matthews dont forget bamboo
James Matthews wow anda seperti profesor...
I really want to study Bahasa Indonesia but the online resources are so limited.
Seoul Mate i'm native so i can help you!
Seoul Mate Im Indonesian I can teach u
Hi soulmate I'm Indonesian maybe I can help u, catch me on instagram @nadyaginanti
Ummm... Actually, yes, we dont have any verb conjugation, BUT WE HAVE "Imbuhan." It's something like affixes and IT MAKES SOME LEARNERS CRAZY. So yeah, brace urself everyone. And happy learning! Semoga bisa cepat ngomong bahasa Indonesia.
I would take up Indonesian, only I really should concentrate on Japanese. Je vais aller à japon en mars, parce que j'ai un nouveau travail comme un enseignant
Definitely concentrate on Japanese first! :)
Concentrating mainly on Japanese but I get so easily tempted to start reading about another language and diverge too quickly V_V
Pas de problème! L'indonésie sera encore là pour toi! Et si tu arrives à étudier l'indonésien, envoie-moi un email par mon site-web et je t'aiderai!
Merci pour le commentaire!
Robbie Heslop ahaha me too
is your mother tongue French?
Especially colloquial Indonesian can be very detailed and dynamic to the point that I could sometimes get lost in the middle of conversation when hanging out with friends back at home. I didn't even know that the word "meper" existed :P
We do not have articles! True! This is probably the reason why I went crazy when preparing for german DAF-test.
Great video, Lindsay!
Thanks, Ardhi! :) Interesting you didn't know meper - I guess that proves how huge the range of colloquial Indonesian is! :p
Ardhi Sutadi , masa 'meper' nggak tau, ...ngelap di baju orang...
Actually, it was not very surprising you didn't know it.
It's not Bahasa Indonesia, you won't find that word on KBBI.
It's 'bahasa gaul' or 'slang language', mostly used on big city.
I believe it's origin was from either Betawi or Sundanese people
kamuslengkap.com/kamus/sunda-indonesia/arti-kata/meper
glosar.id/index.php/print/,283-meper,Bahasa+GAUL-adalah.xhtml
_Meper :_
- mengusapkan benda kotor pada batu, kayu agar lepas (Sunda)
- mengelapkan tangan yang kotor atau terkena sesautu secara diam-diam, bisa ke tembok, baju orang lain, dll (Gaul)
PS : Ardhi, kurang nongkrong kali ente bro, bukannya nama ente Sunda itu? Hehe.
Really?? I am native betawi, and I grow up with that world. So i guess it's betawi adapted into colloquial Indonesian, just like gue, elo, nongkrong, mangap, etc?
I’m part Indonesian and I think it’s fitting for me to know the language of some of my heritage lol
Mie goreng is amazing. And after I get gud at Spanish or Korean (whichever comes first) I'm definitely gonna learn it
Dat Lit Wick hi! can you tell me which language do you speak as your native language??
i'm from indonesia , and i really love this channel, OMG
I am currently trying to learn Bahasa Indonesia, so any help would be appreciated! Terima kasih!
where are you from, I'm native so perhaps I can help?
i really appreciate this video. greets from indonesia ^^
this might be a little bit out of the main topic of the video, but dang that guy's fluency in English totally impressed me!
ILY Lindsay! ❤
Sangat bagus!
Perhaps I'll give Bahasa Indonesia another try after I get decent with Tagalog.
When you gave your initial greeting, from some dark place in my subconscious there surfaced the reply _khabar baik!_. IIRC the exchange literally goes, "What news? --- Good news!" I suppose like you could say in English, "How ye doin'? Doin' fine!"
Then when you got on to the numbers I started recalling the Malagasy numerals, isa, rua, telo, efatra ... dimi ... folo ... (no don't ask!)
hi Fiel,,,,, who is he? love his voice. the way he speaks, seems he is smart
so weird when your indonesian
like me i'm indonesian
... no conjugations, no verb tenses, no articles.... Does that mean all I need to do is cram vocab and I'm 90% of the way to fluency? :o
If you are a native in English, and you want to practice Bahasa Indonesia with native, I can help you
saya suka bahasa inggris aksen UK dan Kate Winslet adalah pengucap aksen bhs.inggris yang paling saya suka.
videonya keren, saya suka
in the first scene, did you use green screen on the background? thx
I've trying to learn Indonesian language for sometimes now. But I don't have many Indonesian friends to talk to. So if anyone interested to help me with language please reply
Hi.. Im from Indonesian👍❤😍
Do you have a 9 Reasons to Learn Tamil video?
Hai...apa kbr..im Javanese..
Actually. Indonesia has the 3rd largest archipelago after canada and greenland.
No he means the largest archipelago nations. Canada and Finland have more islands than Indonesia indeed, but they are not archipelago country. So Indonesia is
So... can you now speak bahasa indonesia?
Because i want to talk with my gf easily
Waw, aku tak bisa berkata-kata lagi
Can you do 9 reasons to learn Romanian?
Good :)
I'm Indonesian
Hi... indonesian here ....265 million people are waiting you to come to indonesia and speak with us. And 17 thousands Island and myriad of culture to experience. Indonesia offer fully funded scholarship darmasiswa so than u can enjoy indonesia for free
Indonesia is easiest language in world, many foreign just need few month to speak Indonesian very well but also Indonesia language is hardest languages in world because im Indonesian but i can not speak bahasa indonesia baku/formal properly! :D
SorryMyBadEnglish
Make a video about korean
On the list! :)
"Everything goreng" 😁.
Kind of mad in a good way to dutch by which they had colonized Indonesia but didnt teach us a single phrase in dutch language LOL HAHAHAH
I'm Indonesia I like eating nasi goreng
I want to!!!
Yay! :)
Shoot me a message if you want help with anything and I'll be more than happy to help! Thanks for watching!
Why am i learning my own language 😂
Im pretty sure that 90% of the viewers are indonesian itself
I'm Indonesian. I think the best reason to learn Indonesian is that Indonesia is a huge country, fourth most populous in the world which 80%-90% of its people can't speak English well.
Dada is breast. And dadah means bye, the h isn't silent. Big difference hahahaha
That boy look like kevin anggara
Belle
he looks like jin from bts xD
I...don't know who that is! Ha! :p
Haha... Thanks, man if only I was as famous as them too!
Pre debut Jin...
as a "bule", if you can speak Bahasa Indonesia, you can get more likes and comments.
Im Ready to laugh(if fail)
Im indonesian
Fiel is bae
Is in do ne sia not Indonesia
Indonesian a trend language? Don't you know how hard it is to learn multiple languages at once?!!
Everything goreng 😹😹😹😹 LMAOO
Nasi goreng di lembur kuring mah
Hargana Rp.10.000.
Hai
indonesian people watch this video because they're had a bad score in Indonesian language hahaha
This is fascinating, but can I give some sort of criticism? I was born in Indonesia, and it's a bit distracting how you pronounce my country. It's pronounce In-doh-NAY-shia.
Aribistol I’m from Indonesia as well, but you can’t blame a person for being born with an accent.