Indonesian Language (Part 1): How to Spell?

Bahasa Indonesia or Indonesian language unites the over 250 millions people with more than 400 kinda regional dialects or even distinct languages. Learning Indonesian language ain’t something hard. Here I’ll introduce you to Indonesian language and how to spell words using general audience. There are some key points which will be so easy to learn.


1) Each letter has special sound and it won’t be same with others. I’ll write how to spell each letter and you may compare it when you spell certain words in English.
For example:
A = cut, nut, month.
It means we can spell ‘A’ as we spell ‘u’ for ‘cut’ or ‘nut’ or ‘o’ in ‘month’.
I = ink, hint, bee, etc.
U = foot, soon, moon, etc.
E = check, send, earth, etc.
O = joy, toy, obey, etc.

The following consonants are important consonants which may distinguish them with English version as the rest are same.
C = chuck, child, chart, etc. (don’t spell ‘C’ as we spell ‘C’ in cute, case, cell, certain, etc.).
G = grant, good, game, etc. (don’t ever spell ‘G’ as we spell ‘G’ in giant, gee, gentle, etc.).
K = key, kidney, kidding, etc.
R = rare, rule, ring, etc. (use a harder tension for ‘R’ in Indonesian than English).

The all rules will realize all words in Indonesian language.

2) A word generally needs a vocal between two consonants. We’ll find rarely a word has three or more consonants or a word consists of one tension as we easily find them in English, such as words above (cut, nut, month, ink, etc.). Words in Indonesian language needs two tensions, at least.
For examples:
Meja (me-ja) = table
Kaki (ka-ki) = foot
Gigi (gi-gi) = tooth
Duduk (du-duk) = sit
Sakit (sa-kit) = pain, sick
Bahaya (ba-ha-ya) = dangerous
Menjahit (men-ja-hit) = sew
Kelakuan (ke-la-ku-an) = behavior, attitude

Have fun with Indonesian language!

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English Ability of Indonesian Students

Look... I teach in a plus school which has international classes. An international class should mean the class which will use an international way in study. It means students in kinda class should have a good ability in English. Since teachers who teach the program don't get enough information about the students, we - especially I - think students must have a good English ability. At leas they can speak English better than the teachers, they can debate in English, they can create any tasks of any subjects in English, they can write any thoughts in good English, and many more.

I'm tired enough to remind my international students to speak or write in good English. It's the only reason why they will cry, 'Oh, no!' when I ask them to speak English in chemistry class. But hey, they're joining an international class. They've been taking any English course. They've watched any English version of movies, and they will comment in English in their friends' friendster page, however. Why are they scared of using English in class then?

When I visited the capital city, Jakarta, and talked to some young people in English even not fluently they didn't mind to answer me in same language. It's surprised me enough. So i think the regional students should improve their English ability if they wanted to run as fast as their competitors in other regionals. I've given them a good example here to build this English version blog as I'm one of international classes members even it just uses a simple-informal styled English and I do don't care about grammar. Why should I be worried about grammar because my foreigner friends can understand what I've written here.

I'm still looking for my international students to get rid their scary in English. By the way, can you imagine how hard any English teachers from other schools to teach their students?

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