The Benefits of Learning Indonesian
With the vast territory and tremendous size of
its population, Indonesia will dominate the economy in Asia for the next few
decades. More and more new businesses will enter Indonesia. Bahasa Indonesia is
the official language spoken in Indonesia. Although most people in big cities
can speak English, there are major benefits to learning Indonesian:
1.
People in Indonesia tend to better relate with you if you speak in their own
language. This is particularly important if you do business there.
Understanding the culture and language is the key to your business success.
2.
There are some phrases and sentences that do not have equivalent English
translations. Or if they do, the meaning will slightly differ. You don't want
this to happen especially when you deal with legal documents or important
reports.
3.
Not all Indonesians can speak English. Most of the time, in small cities and
rural areas, Indonesians speak Bahasa Indonesia or speak in their own dialect.
Even if they speak Indonesian, their accents might not be easily understood.
You won't want to buy or say something you don't intend to convey.
4.
Bahasa Indonesia is a fairly easy language to learn. There are no tenses and no
gender nouns. However, it has different types of prefixes and suffixes.
Learning how to speak Bahasa might be easier than writing it. Based on our
experience, within 30 hours of intensive, guided-learning, students are able to
construct sentences on their own and speak basic Indonesian.
5.
Indonesia has beautiful works of arts such as pantun, sajak, puisi, gurindam,
and seloka. All of these are different types of poetry. Besides these, there
are a lot of interesting fables and traditional folklores associated with
different provinces in Indonesia.
6.
When you master Bahasa Indonesia, you can also understand Malay. Due to its
root, there are similarities between the two languages. Of course, the
vocabulary is not exactly the same, but chances are if you know how to speak
Bahasa Indonesia, you will be able to understand Bahasa Melayu as well. Killing
two birds with one stone.
8.
Learning a language is always an investment. Bahasa Indonesia is no different.
You can travel throughout beautiful Indonesia without having to worry about
communicating with the natives.