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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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…
Letter C Do you know how to Pronounce ‘C’ in Sambal ABC, the chilli sauce? For the most part the spelling of Indonesian is regular…
Ng It is pronounced like the English /ng/ in ‘sing’; ‘king’. Examples ngantuk – sleepy tangan – hand datang – arrive Ng + g =…
Abbreviations are often used in Indonesian. There are literally thousands of commonly used acronyms and abbreviations, and they pop up in profusion in every domain…
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 Indonesia, most people (but by no means all people) trill or roll the consonant /r/. Some English-speaking learners find this hard to do, but…
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…
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…