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| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5231 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 35 09 July 2010 at 9:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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In comparison to, say, French and German. I want to experience Asian culture, without having to pull my hair out
learning Mandarin. So has anybody here learned Indonesian? According to the FSI, Indonesian is a category one language, like Spanish and Italian etc, so I think I could manage it, but I'd like to hear your opinion first. Also, does anyone here know of a good Indonesian course? So far Teach Yourself seems to be the best course I've found (book and two CDs). Thanks! brian91 Edited by brian91 on 09 July 2010 at 9:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ericspinelli Diglot Senior Member Japan Joined 5570 days ago 249 posts - 493 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Italian | Message 2 of 35 09 July 2010 at 10:11am | IP Logged | |||||
What is "Asian culture"? 9 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5231 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 35 09 July 2010 at 10:19am | IP Logged | |||||
Okay, there's Indian culture, the Middle-East etc, so I guess south-east Asia. Not to overgeneralize. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6166 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 35 09 July 2010 at 10:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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Here are some threads that may be useful:
Indonesian courses Indonesian 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5231 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 5 of 35 09 July 2010 at 11:35am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks, Eric.
Something that put me off was this quote from the antimoon.com forum about the difficulty of Indonesian: "I hate to contradict all of you, but you are misguided. I am a professor of linguistics and Southeast Asian Languages at the University of Michigan (Flint). Indonesian (and Malaysian) are very difficult to learn and perfect due to the wmsp-sweep grammar rule." Is this guy joking? What is the wmsp-sweep grammar rule? :D Edited by brian91 on 09 July 2010 at 11:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6016 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 35 09 July 2010 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
There are no such things as HARD languages as much as there are EASY languages. Seriously! It's as hard as you make it. Some people consider Spanish and French( both level 1 languages) extremely difficult because of their gender, complex verb forms etc. while others consider spoken Mandarin very easy! Don't be put off by a language because somebody tells you it is "hard" or purposely study one because it is supposed to be "easy". Study it because you want to! ( and believe me , there are 1000 reasons why you would want to study a language) That being said, most experts agree that Indonesian is a relatively painless language for English speakers to pick up. Of course, even "easy" languages will have a few aspects that will trip you up, but thanks to a fairly straightforward grammar and a latin script you should be alright. These links should still be working for a very intensive Indonesian course Indonesian: http://rapidshare.com/files/271959174/DLI_Indonesian_Course. zip.001 http://rapidshare.com/files/272080467/DLI_Indonesian_Course. zip.002 http://rapidshare.com/files/272094315/DLI_Indonesian_Course. zip.003 If not let me know and I can re-post them. Good Luck! 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5231 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 7 of 35 09 July 2010 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks, liddytime. Motivation and persistence seem to make up most of language-learning. It's a great life lesson.
:D I'm still scared of that so-called wmsp-sweep grammar rule though. D: 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6016 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 8 of 35 11 July 2010 at 4:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
I have absolutely no clue what that is!! ;-) No worries!!! Even the hardest grammar "rules" if you use them enough they will become second nature. ( even though I still have to tell myself "i before e except after c" every time I spell those words... ok that's spelling, not grammar, but you get the point.....) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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