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| Americano Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6849 days ago 101 posts - 120 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean | Message 1 of 18 22 March 2014 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm starting an MBA course soon, and I'm quite interested in working in SE Asia, and one of the challenges to getting employment in Asia is language skills. So, I'm looking into Indonesia, which gives me access to Indonesia, and for the most part Singapore and Malaysia. The ease of learning Indonesian will be welcomed after Korean. I"m curious if anyone here studies Indonesian (or Malay) and can recommend good sources that can take a beginner to the high intermediate level at least. I've done some searching, and I've found a podcast, which seemed decent, and there is one level of Pimsleur. Unfortunately it seems hard to find an old Linguaphone course and the FSI course is not available.
Anyone who has recommendations on how to best learn Indonesian or Malay, I would love to hear them. Edited by Americano on 22 March 2014 at 4:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mgr.graham Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5976 days ago 15 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Spanish, Ancient Greek, Indonesian, Malay | Message 2 of 18 25 March 2014 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Beginning Indonesian Through Self-Instruction by John Wolff
The Indonesian Way LINK 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Hungringo Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 3991 days ago 168 posts - 329 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, English, Spanish Studies: French | Message 3 of 18 25 March 2014 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Colloquial and Teach Yourself courses seem to be OK. Defence Service Institute also produced a course which is on the Internet, but if I remember well this DSI course was made before the spelling reform. If you don't mind the French part then you could try Assimil as well.
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| Americano Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6849 days ago 101 posts - 120 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean | Message 4 of 18 26 March 2014 at 6:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the replies.
@mgr.graham - The Indonesian Way looks like a nice free resource. Have you used Beginning Indonesian Through Self-Instruction? There aren't many resources for Indonesian/Malay, so I think I'll need to use everything I can get my hands on to get me to an intermediate level and then start to use more native sources. @hungringo - I was actually just taking a look at the TY program online the other day and I think I'll probably get it since it's rather cheap. I'm not sure about DSI, but I just found this from DLI: DLI Indonesia 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hungringo Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 3991 days ago 168 posts - 329 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, English, Spanish Studies: French | Message 5 of 18 26 March 2014 at 10:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry, Americano, of course I meant DLI and not DSI.
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| Americano Senior Member Korea, South Joined 6849 days ago 101 posts - 120 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean | Message 6 of 18 26 March 2014 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | ||
Haha...there seem to be so many different acronyms out there I figured maybe there's another government body producing programs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5133 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 7 of 18 23 May 2014 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Indonesian Way does indeed look like a decent course.
Another podcast-style course that looks OK is Learning Indonesian. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JamesS Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 4218 days ago 20 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Indonesian Studies: Javanese, German, Mandarin | Message 8 of 18 24 May 2014 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
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There are a multitude of foreign business people working in Indonesia who would not be able to utter a single
syllable in Indonesian, but it is certainly the case that being able to speak the language makes living there a completely different experience. Depending on how pressed you are for time, I'd suggest you spend some time at one of the excellent language schools in Yogyakarta. When I was there a couple of years ago you could get one on one instruction with a fully qualified native speaker teacher for $10 US per hour. I found doing 2-3 hours of lessons in the mornings and spending the rest of the day practising with native speakers, reading newspapers and doing private study improved my skills very quickly. I learnt Indonesian at school and university so I'm not up to speed in which self study materials are best. However, I have had a look at what Colloquial has to offer and it is quite impressive. If you start with that and a reference grammar like the one written by James Sneddon you should advance pretty quickly to the point where you can read and listen to native material with a reasonable level of understanding. The helpful thing about learning Indonesian is that the straightforward grammar and the large number of English/Dutch loan words means that you can get into reading newspaper articles and novels relatively quickly. Beware, though, that there is a massive difference between the stuffy formal language and the language used on the street - this is the flip side to having a relatively simple formal register. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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