Indonesian for Beginners: Learning Conversational Indonesian

by Katherine Davidsen, Yusep Cuandani

Selamat datang! Learn to read, write, and speak Indonesian! By completing the 12 lessons in Indonesian for Beginners, you will learn not only to understand, speak, read and write basic Indonesian, but also about many important aspects of Indonesia's amazingly diverse culture, people, and places. This book provides a gateway to understanding the Indonesian language and country, and helps you to apply what you learn in a way that is relevant, meaningful and fun. The course is structured around the concept of spending a year in Indonesia--experiencing different seasonal events which bring the learner on a journey. In this way, the cultural and background information becomes a natural part of the understanding of the Indonesian language and helps you to place what you learn into context within a full narrative about life in Indonesia. Each chapter contains the following An introduction with images and captions Grammar points A word bank presenting key vocabulary One or more sample conversations Listening practice and readings An "Indonesian and me" section that uses Indonesian to talk about yourself Key questions and statements Drills and exercises Indonesian for Beginners includes reading, writing and speaking tasks based on authentic real-life materials. While aimed at learners taking a classroom course, it can also be used by anyone studying Indonesian in other ways--in a high school course or as a self-study book.

210 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 20, 2019

About the author

Katherine Davidsen completed her BA (Hons) in Indonesian at Monash University. She has since worked in Melbourne, Indonesia and Hanoi, teaching English ESL, Indonesian and Japanese. She is the author/editor of the revised Tuttle Concise Indonesian Dictionary and is currently working on her Masters in Applied Linguistics at the University of Southern Queensland.

Reviews

[Florian · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a typical language guide. While the cultural notes are interesting all of it is in English so it will not help you with learning the language. A few of the texts and dialogues have downloadable audio but the quality is not good.