Welcome!

Hi, welcome to Jawara Bahasa Blog, a blog that helps you to learn Indonesian language. I write this blog especially for you who really want to learn Indonesian language i.e. Bahasa in a more simple and interactive way, since you can ask and contact me freely as you are going on your learning simply by writing your comments or send me an e-mail. This is one little act of gratitude in celebrating the 64th years of Indonesian Independence from the colonialism. I do it simply to help you who want to be able to write, speak and understand Bahasa in your various purposes, either for tourism, international communication or may be just for pleasure! Welcome! I wish this blog can be a meaningful help for your learning Bahasa.

Even though I have but a slight experience in teaching Bahasa to expatriates, and may be you’d prefer to choose another more academic resources to your learning, but I am still willing to help you to learn it in a more communicative way. Besides, I am sure that your questions, comments and suggestions will be very helpful for me to improve the content quality of this blog so that this blog would be a good media for you too as an addition to your reliable resources.

This blog will guide you to learn Bahasa from the most basic level and gradually go to the intermediate (both spoken and written form) level, so that it would be very suitable for beginners. I am very happy to present it to you, because not only you who will learn through this blog but also me, my self since I am now a student teacher in a Teachers College and in the future I am going to be a Bahasa teacher for the expatriates students who study in Indonesia. Therefore your encouragements and ideas will be very helpful for me as a preparation and as the best ‘teaching’ experience, or simply to say, your success is mine too!

I hope you enjoy your learning, but I encourage you to be patient to wait for the updates of the postings, see you soon in Jawara Bahasa Blog. As an addittion, you can listen to the audio recording of each posting simply by downloading via given links in the end of each posting. For this edition, you can download here!

Yudhie

Introduction

10 reasons of why to learn Bahasa is very easy!
It uses Latin alphabets, A-Z, that is the very same system used in English, including the writing marks (such as "..", !, ? ) and also the number system (1-10).
You may read and speak the text as it is written. There is not an exception for this rule, or any special characters, or any special reading technique.
You can find many familiar words in Bahasa which are adopted from English and many other languages. For example, toilet, security, adopsi (adoption), nasional (national), linguistik (linguistic)
No gender in words, you can use any articles to any words, so does with adjective and etc.
No "to be", you will never worry about it.
No problem with single or plural because most of times you can use the basic form of a noun to express both singular and plural things.
Very little possibility for you to mispronounce a word in Bahasa: Indonesians are very flexible in pronouncing the words with any dialect. And I assure you that we will still understand you even when you mispronounce some vowels, especially "e", which can be pronounced as ‘e’ like in terrific or ‘e’ like in "exit".
Consistency in the change of verbs. Many times, the verbs can be used in all time with basic form in an informal context. For example: Saya baca buku (I read (a) book), Dia baca buku (She reads (a) book)!
There are no levels of language, means it is just the same with English to whomever and wherever you speak, you may speak just in the same way.
There are no tenses. Don’t worry about the time orientations, because they’ll never appear in any structure. You can simply say the past things as if you say in the present.
3 things you may anticipate in learning Bahasa
There will be a little bit variations of prefixes and suffixes in verb formation. But don’t worry, because you will be very easily follow and practice it in this blog.
Although most of the clauses constructions are very simple, but to construct a more complex sentences you might use conjunctions with some variations. We will discover it also in this blog.
You might also need to know a little bit about famous idioms or a special expression to be able to communicate in Bahasa, in a real sense.

Audio format, here