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Everyday Balinese : Your Guide to Speaking Balinese Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours

by I. Gusti Made Sutjaja
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Learn Balinese in just a few hours.

Recommended for travelers wanting to experience Balinese culture firsthand. Features realistic dialogues in both common and formal Balinese, as well as a grammar overview, word list, sentence construction guide, and a handy dictionary.

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Everyday Balinese : Your Guide to Speaking Balinese Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours

by I. Gusti Made Sutjaja
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ISBN: 9780804840453
Authors: I. Gusti Made Sutjaja
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Date of Publication: 2009-11-10
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Travel, Language
Related Topics: Guidebook, Language
Goodreads rating: 4.0
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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 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.
 

Learn Balinese in just a few hours.

Recommended for travelers wanting to experience Balinese culture firsthand. Features realistic dialogues in both common and formal Balinese, as well as a grammar overview, word list, sentence construction guide, and a handy dictionary.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.