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anime
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 Message 9 of 12
26 November 2007 at 4:33am | IP Logged 
Yeh, that's what I meant. It seems to me that Indonesian is a bit underestimated though, and very few people seem to have an interest in learning it. According to wikipedia it has 250+ million speakers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Southern Philippines, Southern Thailand, East Timor, Australia, Suriname, New Caledonia, Netherlands and United States. That's way more than Japanese, Korean, Thai etc. which seem to be far more popular.
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ElfoEscuro
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 Message 11 of 12
27 November 2007 at 4:37pm | IP Logged 
anime wrote:
It seems to me that Indonesian is a bit underestimated though, and very few people seem to have an interest in learning it. According to wikipedia it has 250+ million speakers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Southern Philippines, Southern Thailand, East Timor, Australia, Suriname, New Caledonia, Netherlands and United States. That's way more than Japanese, Korean, Thai etc. which seem to be far more popular.

I warrant it's because Japanese, Korean, & even Thai culture are much more familiar to people outside of the Malay Archipelago due to media exposure.
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Monox D. I-Fly
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 Message 12 of 12
02 October 2016 at 4:51pm | IP Logged 
anime wrote:
Yeh, that's what I meant. It seems to me that Indonesian is a bit underestimated though, and very few people seem to have an interest in learning it. According to wikipedia it has 250+ million speakers in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Southern Philippines, Southern Thailand, East Timor, Australia, Suriname, New Caledonia, Netherlands and United States. That's way more than Japanese, Korean, Thai etc. which seem to be far more popular.


So, what language did you end up learning? If it was Indonesian, I am ready to help you. I am its native speaker, after all. :)


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