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Day 6. Asking Questions

 

 

 

You can learn words much faster if you make use of the 190 million eager and willing bahasa Indonesia teachers at your disposal. Finding out the word for "shoe" is a lot easier than more abstract concepts such as "good" and "evil" but at this stage you are still trying to become functional. 

Learn five more useful nouns and five more verbs from a reliable phrase book, dictionary, or the word lists in the Appendix. 

You should be at the stage now where you can teach someone a little English. Try it!

Vocabulary Day 6

Apa [ini | itu]?

What is [this | that]?

Apa (horse)   dalam bahasa Indonesia?(substitute English word, which is handy only if the person to whom you are speaking knows more English than you know Indonesian.)

What is (horse) in Indonesian?

Inggeris

[English | England]

 

 

The words in the following table are similar in both English and bahasa Indonesia. They may not be the most precise pronunciation and spelling but they will be understood by most people.

 

 

 


 

Similar Words in Both Languages

 

 

 

airport

apple

athlete

baby

baggage

bank

bar

beer

bell

bottle

bus

camera

cashier

cassette

cherry

chocolate

Coca-cola

coffee

coin

computer

consultant

deoderant

diskette

doctor

donut

dry cleaning

electricity

film

football

glass

guitar

hamburger

hello

ice

ice cream

kilometer

kiosk

mall

massage

meter

monument

museum

music

number

office

OK

oven

paper clip

pen

pencil

pension

photo

photocopy

pizza

police

radio

restaurant

roast beef

salad

same

school

sex

shopping

staple

steak

stop

stop

strawberry

supermarket

taxi

tea

telephone

tennis

ticket

to park

toilet

TV

university

video

 

 

 

 

 

 

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