Learning Bahasa Indonesia

The best time to learn Indonesian is before you move to Indonesia, but finding language materials in your home country can be difficult. It is a good idea to ask your sponsor to help you get her CDs and books a few months before you move so that you can get used to the sounds of the language and familiarize yourself with its structure and vocabulary. Another option is to take an online course. There are free online Indonesian language courses, but the material provided is rather limited and mostly suitable for beginners.

Indonesian is not as difficult to learn as many other foreign languages. For example, verbs are not conjugated like they are in English or French. Bahasa Indonesia shares the same alphabet as English, making it much easier to learn than other Asian languages with different tones and pictograms.