Easy Indonesian 1 - Old Jakarta

The first ever episode of Easy Indonesian: Andes takes us on a tour through old Jakarta!

Easy Languages is an international project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews. We also use this format to expose our street culture abroad and create a more diverse image of our countries. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English.

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Producer of this episode: Andes Surya Atmaja
Host of this episode: Andes Surya Atmaja
Camera: Ishan Wibowo & Panji Arief Akbar
Editing: Andes Surya Atmaja

[Sheldonman]

first impression: it's very fast (like spanish) and they pronounce the words just like they're spelled.

[sunduncan]

Greetings from Thailand. I think Indonesian accent is easier than Malaysian. It sounds clear. Malay is hard to understand for me.

[MishaElRusito]

I just started learning Indonesian and realized it's an extremely fun and easy language! Sadly there are not a lot of decent materials on how to study in properly.

[notme]

I'm Filipino and I feel like Indonesians kinda have the same tone as Filipinos when they talk hahaha we truly are cousins from the Austronesian Family.
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[SJandBaekhyun]

Akhirnya diproduksi juga "Easy Indonesian" :D semoga tetap konsisten sampai ratusan episode dan terus membantu para peminat bahasa indonesia

[alighozali]

This is not a standard indonesian, they use local dialect of jakarta when using indonesian. They mixed indonesian wit many others betawi elements. So many slangs and nonstandard idioms and words. Even if you travel to other parts of indonesia, you will find a very different local dialects. :) I hope for the admin for taking any places in indonesia just for describing the diversity of indonesian dialects influenced by the local language surrounding. :)

[alinemejiaderrant]

Man, I started learning indonesian today and I feel so encouraged by how easy is to learn it!! This should be a universal language, since I am sure it would be easy for most people!! Now I can't wait to visit Indonesia and speak with the locals!!! Hope you keep uploading to this channel, I really wanna learn this language!!

[Indiantravelchannel]

Saya belajar bahasa dari 9 bulan (saya berasal dari India) dan menurut saya, itu sangat bagus untuk praktik - benerkah!! Terima kasih banyak untuk upload..

[IslamBenfifi]

I'm in love with this language!! Waiting with enthusiasm for new videos :)

[philjaco]

Awesome! I'll share the vocab list I made from this video. Keep em coming!

Jadi ya makanya... - So yeah, that's why...

hiburan - entertainment.

ondel-ondel - giant puppets with people inside them.

sembarang tempat - everywhere, all over the place. (orang buang sampah ~)

ramah lingkungan - eco-friendly.

dalam rangka apa - for what occasion, for what purpose, in what context. "Dalam rangka apa nih main ke Jakarta?" "Kalau Indonesia, dalam rangka apa itu?"

peninggalan - relic, heritage. (like the old buildings at Kota Tua: "Banyak peninggalan-peninggalan dari ini...")

menyurutkan langkah kita - discourage, deter us. (lit. dampen our steps) "Itu tidak menyurutkan langkah kita..." (bisa juga menyurutkan darah, menyurutkan hati, dan menyurutkan napas (after exercise).)

cenderung - inclined, tend. "Kalau mall, cenderung sih..." (About malls, I tend to say...)

perkumuhan - slum. (perkampungan + kumuh)

[geckogokhil]

Akhirnya ada Easy Indonesian!!
I'm native and happy to see this video, hope there'll be more more videos to come!!
Untuk pembawa acaranya, lebih relax lagi ya bahasanya dan cara membawa acaranya. Semangat buat semua timnya!!!

[QazaqDubMovies]

Kazakh love my Indonesian brother and sister 🇰🇿❤️🇮🇩

[antonior.]

I'm a Mexican learning Indonesian on Duolingo and I love it, the structure, the words, the phonetics, it's beautiful, i hope to keep on learning more to understand these videos without watching the subtitles

[rivaldijonathanf]

i'am indonesian and i dont know why i feel a little bit weird watching this, haha
but i proud that indonesia language can be recognize by around the world from this 'easy language' channel

[Temanku.Arielhn]

It is great to have material to learn Indonesian. I am from Honduras and study here, and I have to learn Indonesian to start my studies and is good to have these videos to practices and learn.

[ixjrozi]

This is really helpful to me since I can see & learn how people really speak, not boring, fake textbook dialogue!!

[januszhamerski]

thank you for this video and please make more! It is really nice to experience your country and your people in a video like this one.

[yuliasytnik]

Halo, dari Rusia, terima kasih banyak untuk video ya, bisa praktik mendengarkan 🥰

[arkanmur]

I'm native speaker. but, why I watch this? lol xD

[francois-qc]

I want to learn this language. It sounds beautiful. The language seems to be easier to learn than any other in Asia. And it is easily the most spoken language in East Asia (after chinese languages of course).
It is essentially the same language as Malay . (Even if they are often regarded as different languages for political reasons. )