Bahasa Indonesia is known for being relatively easy to learn, so perhaps you got lucky. At least it's more interesting than, say, French.
Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
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)
Drusas@fedia.io 1 day ago
gajahmada@awful.systems 1 day ago
Why ? Dutch ?
sheogorath@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, around 300 people speaks Indonesian. Soo, if looking at raw speaker count, Indonesian can be categorized as ubiquitous.
gajahmada@awful.systems 1 day ago
300 didn’t seem like much tbh. Source: am Indonesian, or as we called it Komodos
sheogorath@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well, when you compare it to German, Japanese. Indonesian can have a lot of speakers when you’re comparing raw quantity of speakers.
gajahmada@awful.systems 1 day ago
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.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
😉