She says Bahasa Indonesia is like a pyramid...in reverse. You start at the point and it seems easy. But as you learn more and get deeper it gets harder and harder!
So here's something I put together to give a glimpse of grammar and the formidable prefixes and suffixes. What if we used them in English? Our conversation might sound something like this....
Person 1: Hi, my name is Mary. No one has memper-met-kan us,
but I know brother you.
Person 2: Oh, hello! Yes, I have men-heard about you when I
ber-met with brother-my.
Person 1: He was supposed to ber-meet me at hour 9:00, but
it is already hour 10:10. Could you me-telephone him?
Person 2: Of course. Maybe he has not yet risen. Lately, he
has not returned home until night-night and so sometimes I have to mem-rise-kan
him. Per-business-an-he is me-rise a new building. So he is very busy.
Person 1: Oh, are they memper-big business their?
Person 1: Are you a pe-study?
Person 2: Yes. I be-study at the University down the street.
Person 1: What pe-study-an are you pe-study?
Person 2: Business.
Person 1: Do you want to become a peng-business?
Person 2: No. I just want to memper-deep my penge-know-an of
business.
Person 1: I want to me-cook soup. Do you know how to cook?
Person 2: No. But my mother often me-cook-kan me soup.
Person 1: You should meng-send a letter to her and ber-ask
how to me-cook soup.
Person 2: A letter was just di-sent-kan me by my sister to
my mom. She said it was expensive.
Person 1: Me-see that! That computer is so thin it
ke-see-annya like a piece of paper!
Person 2: Have you never me-see one before? I have one. I
will memper-see-kan it to you. After one was diper-see-kan me by my friend, I
me-buy one.
Person 1: Why did you move here? I thought you liked stay in
that village.
Person 2: After my parents me-stay, I didn’t want to stay
there more.
Person 1: Oh yes, ke-die-an is very sad.
Person 2: I me-stay-kan all my furniture there too. I
me-die-kan the lights, meng-key the door and left.
Person 1: Have you bought a house here?
Person 2: Yes, but I want to memper-big it, because it is
not big enough. It also needs to be di-clean-kan.
Person 1: You should hire a pem-help to mem-help you.
Mah brain is explooooodiiinggg!!! 0_0
ReplyDeletehahahaha! This was brilliant!
. . .it must be so comforting to hear that you can look forward to it getting ever harder from here :S
that was wonderful dearie! you sound like you're doing great with the language! :)
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