Essential Indonesian Phrasebook & Dictionary. Iskandar Nugraha

9.3 Internet access

       10. Shopping

       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. Tourist Activities

       11.1 Places of interest

       11.2 Going out

       11.3 Booking tickets

       12. Sports Activities

       12.1 Sports facilities

       12.2 At the beach

       12.3 Taking a lesson

       12.4 Renting equipment

       13. Health Matters

       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. Emergencies

       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 sign beside them. These are designed for situations where you don’t understand what someone is saying to you. You can show the book to them and ask them to point to the correct answer to the question you are asking.

      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

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