Everyday Balinese : Your Guide to Speaking Balinese Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours Paperback / softback
by I. Gusti Made Sutjaja
Paperback / softback
Description
This is a concise and user-friendly guide to the Balinese languageEveryday Balinese is targeted to anyone who wishes to learn to speak colloquial Balinese. There are 23 lessons in the book, each with a dialogue that centers around the Balinese daily life. These realistic beginner Balinese dialogues are a great way to learn Balinese as it is really spoken. The dialogue is presented twice: The first version representing the lumrah or common Balinese; the second the alus or refined Balinese.
Both versions are exactly the same grammatically; the difference lies in the word choice. Lumrah or common words are used by participants of equal social status in a conversation, and it reflects intimacy and informality among the users. Alus or refined words are associated with distancing and formality among users in a conversation.
Each lesson contains a section on the grammar an word function, as well as a list of words in both the lumrah and alus forms, followed by their Indonesian and English equivalents. Each lesson ends with a section on sentence construction-how to use the structures taught to make simple sentences.
The book has a pronunciation guide at the front, and a section or greeting, ordinal numbers and a handy dictionary at the end. The dictionary is arranged alphabetically by Balinese, followed by their Indonesian and English equivalents.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Tuttle Publishing
- Publication Date:10/11/2009
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- ISBN:9780804840453
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:Tuttle Publishing
- Publication Date:10/11/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780804840453