Letter G It is pronounced like the English /g/ in ‘god’; ‘golf’, and never the /g/ in ‘giraffe’. Examples gigi – tooth/teeth guru – teacher…
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Iem Brown has many years of experience in teaching Indonesian language at the tertiary level in Australia: James Cook University; University of Queensland; Griffith University, University of Tasmania, Flinders University and The University of Adelaide. She has translated Mohammad Hatta memoirs (1981) and in collaboration with Joan Davis, has translated some Indonesian Poetry “Di Serambi – On the Verandah” (1995). She has written a number of research papers on Buddhism in Indonesia.
The letter /h/ is pronounced like the English /h/ in ‘hen’, ‘home’. This can occur in the initial, medial and final positions. H in Initial…
The Lingua Franca I would not say that learning Indonesian is “easy”, because I don’t believe for an adult learning any language is “easy”. It…
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How Letter ‘C’, ‘G’, ‘J’ and ‘R’ are Pronounced C G J R It is pronounced like the English /ch/ in ‘cheese’ and never as…
There are 5(five) letters that represent vowels in Indonesian, but there are 7(seven) distinct sounds associated with them. The difficulty for a beginner is knowing…