Customer Reviews

Everyday Indonesian: Phrasebook and Dictionary (Periplus language books)

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I felt the book provides an excellent exposure to the first time learner. The book is structured well with sections outlining the use of the language on a day to day situations, such as shopping eating out travelling etc.

The book avoids the need to learn long and tedious list of words and phrases.

I visited Indonesia shortly after recieving the book, I could travel quite independently without having concerns about communicating.

This is deeply disappointing - I should give no star instead of one star, as I never got the book!
Also Amazon is also not up to what I expected. I never was able to get any tracing of the book.
So, up to now, as far as the book is concerned, it is a no show!

I found Everyday Indonesian very useful and well-organized. The format was clear and the cultural notes and photos were helpful. Appendix A on "Verb and Noun Affixes" was worth the price of the book. It clearly explains the prefixes and suffixes which are confusing for beginners. Although the book was written in 1992, it clearly has resonated with Bahasa learners as this is the 8th printing (2007). Note: my July 2007 edition, which I recently bought, has a different cover.

I found this book quite useful when I went to Indonesia last year. Still, my favorite thing about it was coming upon the phrase, "Nyoman punya tiga isteri" and laughing myself silly. I mean, I did not want to imagine being in a situation where I would have use for that phrase..