9.3 Internet access
10.1 At the store
10.2 At the food market
10.3 Clothing and shoes
10.4 Cameras
10.5 At the hairdresser
11.1 Places of interest
11.2 Going out
11.3 Booking tickets
12.1 Sports facilities
12.2 At the beach
12.3 Taking a lesson
12.4 Renting equipment
13.1 Calling a doctor
13.2 What’s wrong?
13.3 The consultation
13.4 Medications and prescriptions
13.5 At the dentist
14.1 Asking for help
14.2 Lost items
14.3 Accidents
14.4 Theft
14.5 Reporting a missing person
14.6 At the police station
15. English–Indonesian Dictionary
Introduction
Welcome to the Tuttle Essential Language series, covering all the most popular Asian languages. These books are basic guides to communicating in the language. They’re concise, accessible and easy to understand, and you’ll find them indispensable on your trip abroad to get you where you want to go, pay the right prices and do everything you’ve been planning to do.
This book is divided into 14 themed sections. It starts with a pronunciation guide which explains the pronunciation of all the words and sentences you’ll be learning, and a grammar guide to help you construct basic sentences in Indonesian. The back of this book has a handy English–Indonesian dictionary that you can use to look up basic words.
Throughout the book you’ll come across boxes with the
Other boxes in the book—without the symbol—provide listings of themed words with their English translations beside them.
For extra clarity, all Indonesian words and phrases are in italics.
This book covers every situation you are likely to encounter during your visit, from checking into a hotel to booking a bus or train ticket to shopping and ordering food and drinks at a restaurant. It even tells you what to say if you get lost or if you lose something. With over 2,000 commonly-used words and phrases at your fingertips you can rest assured that you will be able to deal with any situation, so let Essential Indonesian become your passport to learning to speak with confidence!
Pronunciation guide
Unlike English, Indonesian uses a very consistent phonetic spelling system and once you’ve learnt the rules you should be able to work out how to say any word you see written down. For the most part, it’s relatively easy for English speakers to get to grips with basic Indonesian pronunciation, though learning to accurately mimic the native speaker-style intonation takes a bit longer. Generally a fairly equal stress is placed on the different syllables in Indonesian words, though a slight extra stress is often placed on the next to last syllable in words of three syllables or more.
Consonants
The consonants b, d, f, g, j, k, l, m, n, p, s, t, w are all pronounced about the same way as in English.
The letters q, v, x, z are very rare in Indonesian and usually only appear in loanwords from other languages. Q is pronounced like k in English. Z sometimes sounds similar to j in English.
Consonants that are pronounced differently in Indonesian from English are the following:
| c | pronounced like the ch in church; example: cokelat = “chocolate” |
| kh | a raspy k sound like the ch in loch; example: khidmat = “service” |
| ny | pronounced like the ny in canyon; example: tanya = “to ask” |
| r | rolled, as in Spanish or Italian; example: tari = “to dance” |
| sy | pronounced like the sh in shall; example: syarat = “conditions” |
The Indonesian consonant that generally gives English speakers most trouble is ng, although it is actually a sound that commonly occurs in English. The important thing to remember is that the sound changes slightly if it is immediately followed by another g.
| ng | pronounced like the ng in singer; example: ingat = “to remember” |
| ngg | pronounced like the ng in anger; example: tanggal = “date” |
Aspirated and unaspirated consonants
H is aspirated—given an extra little push of breath—when it occurs at the end of a word; at the start or middle of a word it is pronounced as in English.
Examples:
tanah = “land”
tahan = “to hold”
K and t are unaspirated when they appear at the end of the word—they are cut short, without the final little push of breath that would be present in English.
Examples:
tarik = “to pull”
pahit = “bitter”
Vowels and diphthongs
| a | as in car |
| e | as in get |
| i | as in hit |
| o | as in bob |
| u | as in put |
Diphthongs
| ai | like
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