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German philologist Uli Kozok was a lecturer at the University of Auckland in 1994-2001 before he became Associate Professor at the Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literature at the University of Hawaii in Manoa.
Kozok, who speaks German, English, Dutch, Indonesian and Batak fluently, obtained his master’s degree in 1989 and his PhD (Magna cum laude) in 1994 from the University of Hamburg. His thesis was on the Batak language.
Posted by ‘The Indonesian Way’, a textbook for the Indonesian language by George Quinn and Uli Kozok. Expressions of disagreement are often prefaced with an…
Kena Another important word when it comes to diseases is kena which means ‘to be adversely affected by something’ or ‘to be struck by something’.…
Indigenous dress (in Indonesian often called pakaian adat, especially when it is being worn in a formal or ceremonial context) is still the normal style of…
Most Indonesians are Muslims. Many follow the orthodox requirement to pray to God five times a day. Before praying you must prepare yourself physically and…
When /h/ appears at the end of a syllable in Indonesian it is very lightly, but audibly, breathed. rumah putih teh sekolah lebih setengah murah…
Like the English plosive consonants /t/ and /p/, the sound /k/ in English is usually heavily aspirated. You can hear the puff of air that…
In the speech of most native-speakers of English, the /p/ sound, like /t/, is heavily aspirated, that is, in most sentence environments it is pronounced…
In the speech of most native-speakers of English, the /t/ sound is heavily aspirated. What this means is, in most sentence environments it is pronounced…
Letter C For the most part the spelling of Indonesian is regular and fairly faithfully follows the sounds of the language. But there is one…