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    Everyday Balinese: Your Guide to Speaking Balinese Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours
    Everyday Balinese: Your Guide to Speaking Balinese Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours
    Everyday Balinese: Your Guide to Speaking Balinese Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours
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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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    This is a concise and user-friendly guide to the Balinese language

    Everyday 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuttle Publishing
    Release dateJan 29, 2013
    ISBN9781462902491
    Everyday Balinese: Your Guide to Speaking Balinese Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours

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      Everyday Balinese - I Gusti Made Sutjaja

      LESSON 1

      Who are you?

      A) Common Speech Dialogue

      Vocabulary

      A) List of Common Speech (Lumrah) Forms

      Sentence Construction Pattern

      Questions

      Statements

      Notes

      The word dadi or dados serves as a verb when it is followed by a noun, e.g. dadi guru become/is a teacher. It also serves as an auxiliary verb when it is followed by a verb, e.g. Dadi tawang [adanné]? or Dados uning-in [parabé]? May I know your name? The pronoun for the one who is asking the question is implied.

      The suffix é indicates the notion of definiteness, and is equivalent to the in English; whereas the suffix né indicates the notion of possession [though sometimes it can also imply the notion of definiteness].

      When a word fills both the lumrah/Common and alus/Refined rows, it can be considered as Generic, e.g. désa village, guru teacher.

      The term Sentence Construction Pattern is applied to grammatical constructions (phrases and words) related to the language in use.

      The different patterns of sentences given are expected to become the foundation for making more new sentences based on the wordlist in each lesson. The terminology applied is also very eclectic in nature.

      B) Refined Speech Dialogue

      Vocabulary

      B) List of Refined Speech (Alus) Forms

      Sentence Construction Pattern

      Questions

      Statements

      LESSON 2

      What is this?/What are these?

      A) Common Speech Dialogue

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