My school taught Indonesian. It was a very popular complaint among students that we should be learning a more ubiquitous language like French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, or Spanish.
The only thing I know in Indonesian is ular besar (big snake)
Well, I tried to makes fun of you missing the million unit there, hah.
And to be honest there’s virtually no one actually speak formal Indonesian in daily life beside media/government stuff. Excluding the capital most city will speak their regional language especially older folks.
It’s always funny hearing newly learned non-native because the grammar is so easy and consistent but they sound like a rigid ancient soap drama to my ear.
My school taught Indonesian. It was a very popular complaint among students that we should be learning a more ubiquitous language like French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, or Spanish.
The only thing I know in Indonesian is ular besar (big snake)
😉
Bahasa Indonesia is known for being relatively easy to learn, so perhaps you got lucky. At least it’s more interesting than, say, French.
Why ? Dutch ?
Well, around 300 million people speaks Indonesian. Soo, if looking at raw speaker count, Indonesian can be categorized as ubiquitous.
300 didn’t seem like much tbh. Source: am Indonesian, or as we called it Komodos
Well, when you compare it to German, Japanese. Indonesian can have a lot of speakers when you’re comparing raw quantity of speakers.
Edit: IIRC German have around 200 million speakers.
Well, I tried to makes fun of you missing the million unit there, hah.
And to be honest there’s virtually no one actually speak formal Indonesian in daily life beside media/government stuff. Excluding the capital most city will speak their regional language especially older folks.
It’s always funny hearing newly learned non-native because the grammar is so easy and consistent but they sound like a rigid ancient soap drama to my ear.