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From The Indonesian Language for Foreigners

Welcome to The Indonesian Language for Foreigners.

In this site you can learn Indonesian completely, not just the basics. Many sites provide the basics only: how to instruct taxi drivers, how to make Indonesians praise your Indonesian language, or how to say rude words. Written by native Indonesians, this site will help you become experts in Indonesian! It is written for English speaking people, but since we are not a native English speakers anyway, so you don't need very good English ability to understand the lessons. The more we continue, the more we use Indonesian as the learning material.

Basic Lessons

Start here for those who know none :D

• Lesson 0: Pronunciation
• Lesson 1: Greetings
• Lesson 2: Introducing yourself
• Lesson 3: What is this?
• Lesson 4: Where is your home?
• Lesson 5: How much is that? (Numbers)
• Lesson 6: Doing, acting (Verbs)
• Lesson 7: Date and Time
• Lesson 8: Cheap and expensive toothpastes (Adjectives)
• Lesson 9: My Family
• Lesson 10: My Computer (hehe?)
• Lesson 11: Ordering food
• Lesson 12: Getting up and down

Intermediate Lessons

• Lesson 1: Active and Passive verbs
• Lesson 2: Prepositions
• Lesson 3: Conjuctions

Advanced Lessons

These lessons are for you who want to be able to fluently use Indonesian actively, not just passively. It contains more detailed information about word usage and so on. Native speakers may also make mistakes in some of these.

• Lesson 1: Di sela, disela, ke luar, keluar
• Lesson 2: Namun, melainkan, tetapi
• Lesson 3: Setidaknya, sedikitnya, seharusnya
• Lesson 4: Persatuan, penyatuan
• Lesson 5: Ketipu, tertipu
• Lesson 6: Tambah, kurang, kali, bagi, akar, turunan (hehe?)
• Lesson 7: Analisis, analisa
• Lesson 8: Ngantuk, mengantuk, mengerti, dimengerti
• Lesson 9: Makan, makan-makan, duduk, duduk-duduk
• Impersonal -nya
• Ku, kau, ia

Colloquial Indonesian

Go here if you want to understand the language that Indonesians actually use.

• Colloquial pronouns
• Me- dropping
• Ke-
• -in

Articles

• Problems in learning Indonesian
• Particles (loh, sih, deh, dong, etc.)
• Rude words
• Extensive pronunciation guide
• Children's songs
• Nasal inflection

Disclaimer (not scary one)

Because we, the writers, are natives, we can guarantee the accuracy of the usage, but we are not qualified grammarians, so the same can not be said about things such as grammatical descriptions as well as extensiveness and comprehensiveness of lists.