Ngobrol Daring: Keunikan Bahasa dan Budaya Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing

Ashley RamachandranMahasiswi, Law and International Relations

Flinders University

Pengalaman saya dengan budaya Indonesia

NCP Study Tour with Pak Budi and Maryanne Kelton (2017)

Attended IndoFest (2019) Flinders Jembatan Networking Evening (2019)

Belajar Bahasa Indonesia Dasar di INCULS UGM

● ACICIS Flexible Language Immersion Program: In person and online (via Google Classroom)

● What makes learning Bahasa Indonesia as a beginner unique?

○ Easy to learn very basic greetings and phrases

(e.g. selamat pagi, ada pertanyaan?, saya dari Australie)

○ Gender neutral pronoun(s)

(e.g. dia = he/she)

○ Common base words

(e.g. baca - membaca, cat - mengecati)

Belajar Bahasa Indonesia Dasar di INCULS UGM

● What challenges did I face when learning Bahasa Indonesia as a beginner?

○ Huge difference between classroom and day-today life i.e. ordering gojek/grab

(e.g. ‘brp org’, ‘gpp’, ‘ayo’, ‘sip’)

○ Indonesians talk very fast!

○ Building confidence to speak and assumption that I can already speak Indonesian

based on my ethnicity/facial features

○ Tata Bahasa

■ Active/passive tense

■ What prefix to use

■ How a prefix changes the meaning of the base word

■ Learning what letters to ‘drop’ when adding a prefix (i.e. penyakit - peny(s)akit)

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