Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago nation. Its innumerable islands sprawl for almost 5,000 kilometres along the equator. The country is divided into three time…
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Most Indonesians are Muslims. Many follow the orthodox requirement to pray to God five times a day. Before praying you must prepare yourself physically and…
When /h/ appears at the end of a syllable in Indonesian it is very lightly, but audibly, breathed. rumah putih teh sekolah lebih setengah murah…
Like the English plosive consonants /t/ and /p/, the sound /k/ in English is usually heavily aspirated. You can hear the puff of air that…
In Indonesia, most people (but by no means all people) trill or roll the consonant /r/. Some English-speaking learners find this hard to do, but…
In the speech of most native-speakers of English, the /p/ sound, like /t/, is heavily aspirated, that is, in most sentence environments it is pronounced…
In the speech of most native-speakers of English, the /t/ sound is heavily aspirated. What this means is, in most sentence environments it is pronounced…
Letter C For the most part the spelling of Indonesian is regular and fairly faithfully follows the sounds of the language. But there is one…
Colloquial Indonesian has its roots in Betawi Malay, a Malay based creole with an estimated 2,7 million speakers, spoken by the indigenous population of Jakarta…