Let's Speak Indonesian: Ayo Berbahasa Indonesia Volume 2

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By Ellen Rafferty, Erlin Barnard and Lucy Suharni

Textbook is available at a special NUS student price at NUS Co-op.

Let's Speak Indonesian (Ayo Berbahasa Indonesia) provides beginning and intermediate learners with an introduction to conversational Indonesian. Using a relaxed variety of standard Indonesian spoken among educated native speakers, it offers fifteen thematically-based chapters in two volumes that are rich with photographs, illustrations, and cultural explanations.

The volumes take the novice learner to the intermediate-high level while following a set of fictional students through their university studies. Each lesson presents four to six language functions (e.g., how to greet a stranger, introduce oneself, ask for directions, apologize, offer a suggestion) in socially appropriate contexts. Students begin with the language functions needed to communicate about self, family, and the immediate environment; later lessons expand to topics about the community and broader social issues.

Each lesson offers the following: a list of language functions in Indonesian and English, a dialogue (and online recording) exemplifying the language functions taught in the lesson, structured activities to develop accuracy using the language functions, open-ended tasks to develop fluency in communicative events, a vocabulary list with English definitions, and cultural notes. Each volume concludes with a glossary of vocabulary items introduced in the text.


Ellen Rafferty
 is Professor of Indonesian Language and Literature in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also the author of Let's Speak Indonesian: Ayo Berbahasa Indonesia Volume 1, Indonesian Grammar in Context: Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia Volume 1, Indonesian Grammar in Context: Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia Volume 2 and Indonesian Grammar in Context: Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia Volume 3

Erlin Barnard is the Pedagogy Coordinator for Less Commonly Taught Languages at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Lucy Suharni teaches Indonesian at the National University of Singapore (NUS).


Publication Year: 2014
202 pages, 255mm x 180mm
Paperback
ISBN: 978-9971-69-812-6

NUS Press