Teach Yourself: Indonesian 1st Edition

by Christopher Byrnes (Author), Eva Nyimas (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-0071420266

ISBN-10: 0071420266

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Learning Indonesian as easy as 1-2-3

With this book, Indonesian is attainable for any beginning student. You can use Teach Yourself Indonesian Complete Course at your own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. This complete course is based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.

Prepared by experts in the language, Teach Yourself Indonesian begins with the basics and gradually promotes you to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:

Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
Step-by-step guide to pronunciation
Practical vocabulary
Regular and irregular verb tables
Plenty of practice exercises and answers
Bilingual glossary

About the Author

Christopher Byrnes is a languages scholar who has taught all over the world.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw-Hill; 1st edition (October 20, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071420266
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071420266
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.77 x 7.7 inches

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Gabriel J Culbert

From basic to advanced

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 20, 2013

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Overall a comprehensive introduction to the language. The authors do a good job bringing together grammar and usage while building vocabulary and modeling conversation. Good explanations of how words and phrases are used in various contexts. I was able to progress from Chapter 1 through 5 quickly. Looks as though later chapters build toward language proficiency. I am working with an Indonesian tutor and the book provides enough structure for us both.

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Amazoner

great for beginners

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 18, 2015

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This line of books is pretty standard. I'm a beginner and find it very useful.
A newer version would be helpful. It seems like it's no longer in print.

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Ultimate Reviewer

Your guide to real Indonesian conversation

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 2003

This new version is vastly different from the 1965 version by Mr Kwee, which is good, but heavily based uppon grammar rather than communication! The new version is the most functional, up-to-date text book for learning Indonesian on the market today, to my knowledge, and a valuable addition to your tool-kit if you are planning to visit Indonesia or study Indonesian. The approach is communicative and based around dialogues that reflect the way people speak as closely as possible. That is one of the great strengths of the course. Another strength is that you are only learning what you really need to know, but without skimping on the all-important grammar which is presented in a very user-friendly way with plenty of exercises to check undrestanding and to reinforce usage. Each unit looks at both formal spoken Indonesian and more colloquial spoken Indonesian, but the key is that the focus is on the spoken language and developing useful skills in that area. Of course, written language is also covered, but Indonesian poses few problems to learners compared to most other languages! Another major feature compared to the Kwee version is the addition of audio CDs which are excellent! The quality is very clear and there is plenty, (and I mean plenty!) of material for developing speaking skills in the form of simulated dialogues. If I have one minor complaint it is that sometimes the pauses on the CDs during the simulated conversations are not long enough to fill in your part, but then again, if there were long pauses on the CDs I would probably be complaining that the recording time on the CDs had not been used to the full. As a linguist myself, I sometimes feel that the explanations are a little too simple, but I am sure that this is a good thing for non-linguists or lay-persons who need to get to grips with a language in the least complicated way possible. Admittedly, Teach Yourself Indonesian doesn't take you very far in the language but it is a great start and will give you a basic and useful knowledge of the language that you will be glad of on your travels. If you are contemplating learning Indonesian and you want to delve much deeper into the language than a phrasebook can give you, but you don't want to be burdened by the grammar based approach you might have had when learning languages at school, then this course is for you! I highly reccomend it, both as a first level introduction to idiomatic and colloquial expression in Indonesian, and as an introduction to Indonesian life and culture. I have seen a great many language books in my time, but I have never seen one as good as this for teaching communicative and functional language. The methodology is truly innovative and allows for painless, gradual assimilation of the language.

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Stinky K.

I Like This Book, It Is Bagus

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 1, 2010

Bagus means good. I took it to Indonesia with me for two months. Indonesian is the easiest language I have ever studied, by far. Your learning curve is very high and Indonesians are very friendly and easy to talk to. Learning the language is very rewarding and this book does a pretty good job of helping you speak the language. No book is complete and you should always organize your own grammar notes and vocabulary words but this is the best book I have come upon. It also has the added bonus of being made on cheap paper so it is light to carry if you are traveling with it.

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Lucas

Be optimistic!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2014

This book is great, if you use it to your liking.
I don't think this should be the first thing to use when learning Indonesian though. Get familiar with the language first. I think a podcast would be a great idea!
& I think it's a terrible idea to study this book for months and try to memorized every single thing.
I have been practicing the lessons fairly quickly, then moving on to the next one and reviewing it another time. I forget a few things the first time but when I review it again it strengthens my memory so much!
Of course there are a couple things I could potentially complain about but bottom-line there was a lot of good information. So i can take from that and study them in my own way.
And now that I've gotten really good at the Language I can still use this book as a reference, if I need to.

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Paul Jorgensen

A good conversational course with some minor flaws

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 25, 2006

I'm half way through this course and it's pretty easy to use, and the topics and dialogues are relevant and interesting. There is material on the cd's to help you get accustomed to hearing spoken Indonesian, which is great if you live somewhere with very few Indonesian people like I do.

I have two minor criticisms:

1) During the dialog practice there is often not a long enough pause on the cd to allow you to finish saying your part of the exchange. This is not a big deal if you have an ipod and can easily pause and rewind with little trouble. But it's a bit of a hassle when you're using a home stereo and you have to pause it.

2) Sometimes the dialogues contain a couple of words that are not in the vocabulary key for that dialogue, and sometimes not even in the glossary at the back of the book. That has caught me off-guard a few times when I didn't have my dictionary with me.

But all in this is the best introductory course I've seen, and a much more interesting way to start off than using Yohanna Johns's "Bahasa Indonesia" (which looks better for long term serious study).

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