Indonesian has thousands of words that resemble English words. Lots of them serve an obvious purpose: they fill a gap in the vocabulary. Examples of these are…
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If words are flesh and grammar is bones, then the flesh of Indonesian has an unmistakable English flavour by now. What you might not know…
Whether you’re living in Indonesia or just on holiday there, some of your most useful phrases will be formulas to ask for things – goods, services and…
On my first trip to Indonesia twenty years ago, I arrived in the village of Ubud in Bali and was sitting in my losmen. Two…
One version of the Indonesian passive sentence often taught to students at school and university, at least in Australia, is this: The ‘di-‘ passive is…