Instant Indonesian: How to Express 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words and Phrases! (Indonesian Phrasebook)

Stuart Robson, Julian Millie

Tuttle Publishing, Dec 20, 2011 - Foreign Language Study - 144 pages

It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication!

Do you want to speak simple Indonesian but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting Indonesia for a short time and want an Indonesian phrase book to help you communicate? If so, this Indonesian phrasebook is for you--it's the easiest and quickest way to learn Indonesian. It's tiny 0.4 x 4.1 x 5.9 inches size makes it incredibly convenient to travel with but without losing the most essential content for communication.

The idea of Instant Indonesian is simple--learn 100 words and phrases and say 1,000 things. The trick is knowing which 100 words to learn, but the authors Stuart Robson and Julian Millie have solved the problem, choosing only those words you'll hear again and again. Even with a vocabulary this small, you'll be surprised how quickly and fluently you too can communicate in the Indonesian language. Words are repeated in different combinations, building familiarity without effort. A brief guide to pronunciation allows the user to say the phrases correctly and an Indonesian dictionary allows for quick reference. Here's a sample of what you'll be able to do with this Indonesian phrasebook:

• Meet people.
• Go shopping.
• Ask directions.
• Ride the subway.
• Order food and drinks.
• And much more.

Contents

• Preface: 7
• What Is Indonesian?: 9
• Pronunciation: 13
• WORDS 110: 19
• Eating and Drinking: 27
• WORDS 1120: 31
• Social Etiquette in Public: 38
• WORDS 2130: 41
• Times and Seasons: 47
• WORDS 3140: 51
• Personal Pronouns: 57
• WORDS 4150: 61
• Religion and Culture: 66
• WORDS 5160: 69
• Social Chatting: 75
• WORDS 6170: 79
• Social Relations and Family: 84
• WORDS 7180: 87
• Indonesian Names: 92
• WORDS 8190: 95
• Verb Prefixes: 100
• WORDS 91100: 103
• OTHER USEFUL PHRASES: 109
• Numbers: 111
• Emergency Expressions: 115
• Some Common Signs about Town: 117
• Additional Vocabulary: 119

About the author

Stuart Robson has been deeply involved with Asian studies for over 40 years. He has taught at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and is a member of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology. He is the author of the Javanese-English Dictionary (Periplus Editions, 2002), the only comprehensive English-Javanese dictionary. Now a resident of Australia, he has most recently been the head of the Indonesian Program at Monash University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Instant Indonesian: How to Express 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words and Phrases! (Indonesian Phrasebook)
• Authors: Stuart Robson, Julian Millie
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 2011
• ISBN: 1462901778, 9781462901777
• Length: 144 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Multi-Language Dictionaries; Foreign Language Study / Multi-Language Phrasebooks; Foreign Language Study / Southeast Asian Languages; Language Arts & Disciplines / Spelling & Vocabulary; Travel / Asia / Southeast