Podcast #6 - Indonesian Alphabet and Number

 

                Welcome to Bet.ID to podcast. The podcast where I talk about Indonesian language, and things related to it so that you can improve your listening comprehension and get to know more about Indonesia and its cultures. I’m Jeff, your host.

                Hello, this is the sixth episode of this podcast. In this episode I’m gonna talk about the alphabet and number in Indonesian. But again if you wanna read the transcripts whilst listening to this podcast, you can find the link to the transcript in the shownote down below wherever you’re listening to this podcast.

                So Indonesian alphabet. Actually it is 100% percent the same alphabet as English. But now I will pronounce each of the alphabet because of course the pronunciation is different. As I’m pronouncing the sound please pay attention carefully to how I produce the sound.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

                Okay. So how is it? Do you notice any similarities with English alphabet? I think some of them are F J L M N O Q S X Z. Now why don’t go along with me by pronouncing the alphabet together?

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

                Great I think it’s not that difficult to pronounce Indonesian alphabet. Maybe the only difficulty that you will encounter here is to pronounce the R. It is Rrrr, again Rrrrr. But if you are an Italian or Spanish. You can easily pronounce this Rrrrr sound.

                Okay, so that is the alphabet in Indonesian. Now we jump in to our next topic today, the number in Indonesian. Indonesian number pronunciation is very different with English. So from one to ten in Indonesian, it is

Satu

Dua

Tiga

Empat

Lima

Enam

Tujuh

Delapan

Sembilan

Sepuluh

But the good news is if you have already know one to ten in Indonesian, it would be very easy for you to pronounce the rest of the number because they are in a pattern. So with teen like thirteen, fourteen, et cetera it is belas in Indonesian. Pay attention carefully, I’m gonna pronounce eleven to nineteen in Indonesian.

Sebelas

Dua belas

Tiga belas

Empat belas

Lima belas

Enam belas

Tujuh belas

Delapan belas

Sembilan belas

                Do you notice that unlike English, you know, eleven and twelve, they are not in a pattern with the rest thirteen, fourteen, and so on. But in Indonesian they all are in pattern. May be you are wondering, why eleven in Indonesian is sebelas and not satu belas. In fact, se here is a contraction of satu.

                Now with ty, you know, twenty, thirty, fourty, in Indonesian it is puluh. To help understand, now I’m gonna pronounce the rest of the number, from twenty to thirty and then from thirty to ninety. Remember all the number is in a pattern. So once you know one to ten in Indonesian. You will certainly know the rest. Okay, let’s start.

Dua puluh

Dua puluh satu

Dua puluh dua

Dua puluh tiga

Dua puluh empat

Dua puluh lima

Dua puluh enam

Dua puluh tujuh

Dua puluh delapan

Dua puluh sembilan

Tiga puluh

Empat puluh

Lima puluh

Enam puluh

Tujuh puluh

Delapan puluh

Sembilan puluh

                Okay. So we’ve done. If you want to know the rest of the number you can check it out on my YT channel. Just click the link in the shownotes below. Bye

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