Resources for Learning Indonesian/Malay

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Permalink Reply by Mindy McAdams on August 2, 2011 at 1:21pm

I have been using Rosetta Stone Bahasa Indonesia and getting a lot out of it. 

 

I also got a lot of use from this independent website: http://www.learningindonesian.com/ You can download free lessons starting from the basics. 

 

Finally, this is a really short and quick course in useful phrases: Bahasa Indonesia in 7 Days. Also free online.

Permalink Reply by Jessica Carissa Dova on October 24, 2011 at 11:13am

Maybe you could try learning bahasa in a fun way, like try to listen to some good local musics. I would personally recommend Glenn Fredly, Andien, GIGI and many others. Try to find their lyrics online and read to it while you're listening to the music. Then later, you could search the meaning of the songs. With that, you'd practice the bahasa pronunciation and grammar. Good luck!

Permalink Reply by Imani on November 3, 2011 at 10:55am

Thanks for sharing Jessica. Your insights and recommendations are very helpful. I have been looking for new music to listen to. New music plus a new language equals a happy me!

Permalink Reply by Jessica Carissa Dova on December 6, 2011 at 10:34pm

Happy to hear that Imani, are you staying in Indonesia at the moment? if you do, which city are you living in? :)

Permalink Reply by Whitney on December 7, 2011 at 3:18pm

For all my language learning I have been using a free language software called Byki. You can go to byki.com and get multiple lists and such. It's really great! Currently, I am learning 4 languages and this program makes it very easy.

It has a bunch of lists as I stated before and these lists have words and/or phrases. Eventually you picked up on the language because you learn that while you are learning the phrases in another list there are the words and you learn grammar by just how you learned your first language. I find it to much easier than Rosetta Stone.