The world's easiest language is NOT what you expect

This is my 60 second #shorts review of Indonesian, the world's easiest language. Despite how different it is from English, once you try learning this outrageously elegant language you’ll very quickly be asking yourself, why don’t all languages do it like this?! The grammar, pronunciation, and writing system are all extremely simple and elegant compared with supposedly "easy" languages like Spanish or French.
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[@LazEden]

Meanwhile the French teacher yell at me when I don’t know the gender of the door frame

[@milkteakyan2623]

Yess, the most problem when i learn French a few years ago is "how i know this thing's gender?" "Is it la or le? Un or une?"

[@user-fh5ov4tu2j]

I yell at myself when i dont know the gender of any french words

[@bellenomura]

This reminds me of Arabic where even objects have gender 😭😭😭😭

[@roughysk9851]

@@milkteakyan2623 same with german

[@xano2921]

@Hernando Malinche not so simple...

[@tsgmer]

Man’s speaking in terms and conditions

[@grantd.335]

underrated comment

[@tomasonsynthol8266]

Lol does that also mean we wouldn't really care about what he says 😭 Edit:I meant if he's speaking in terms and conditions we would've scrolled through this short like it's non-existent, like how we scroll through terms and conditions 💀

[@Enaccul]

If you listen very carefully he says batteries are not included at the very end

[@babylonhasfallen1329]

Be sure to listen to the fine print.

[@tsgmer]

😂

[@GamerTime_2002]

"mouse mouse" I fucking love that

[@neitea2]

Fun fact: That doesnt work only for nouns, but also for adjectives, like "The painting are beautiful-beautiful." "Those clothes all in white-white."

[@Vecorix]

Skaven 😂

[@anonymousstacker2044]

My mothertongue (Filipino) is also like that: "Ang ganda ganda mo naman" roughly translates to "You so beautiful-beautiful"😊

[@pingtime]

Indonesia Language is made to be simple, you can't unite hundreds of tribes with their own mother tongue with hard to understand national language (most of us spoke it as second language)

[@notvicious8793]

Interesting, thanks for sharing

[@secretadmirer5006]

Yes, surprised he left that out!

[@ant.yo23]

Yeah, I'm Indonesian they are have tribe language like Javanese, Sunda, batak

[@anovosedlik]

'Mouse mouse' is dope. I drink beer beer to that now.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

we use "minum minuman" for 1"drink drink"

[@user-pq4dl1qc4k]

😂

[@cylearnpvp9566]

​​@@carkawalakhatulistiwa *minum-minum. Minum = to drink (activity) Minuman = drink/beverage (object) So, it's gonna be like: Minum-minum = drink drink Minum minuman = drink(-ing) (a) beverage

[@Ddozsoy]

The Earth has 8 billion human human on it

[@Jauven43]

​@@Ddozsoy and there are more cows in India then people

[@tanjohn4719]

I love how xiaomanyc’s face just turns red to squeeze his video in a minute

[@FoxenPiano]

I mean.. he's just sped up the video footage.

[@martinraxyz]

@@FoxenPiano Unlike Ben Shapiro, who speaks this fast anyway! 😄

[@lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139]

Indonesian doesn't even look like other asians like Mongolian, Korean or Japanese, they look kinda mix with melanesian or tamil.

[@lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139]

There's even an indonesian that looks like Obama.

[@lonelypeopleruglydeformedc8139]

Very interesting.

[@fakhrianirsali6380]

When you say "bom dia" in Portuguese, no one bats an eye. When you say the same word in Indonesian, everyone loses their mind.

[@Violetisnowback]

that good morning turned into a bad morning real fast

[@everella]

boom 🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💣💣💣💣💣💣

[@sandiromero7482]

Say that on the indonesian flight: ☠️

[@DokterMeow]

​@@sandiromero7482wkwkwk mrk akan melemparkan dr pasawat

[@pixelzebra8440]

Omg what the heck lmao

[@eddavanleemputten9232]

When I moved to Malaysia as a teenage girl I absolutely LOVED the way plurals were constructed in Bahasa Malaysia. Just say the word twice. It did make me giggle once: the first time I heard “ladies and gentlemen” in a speech: “Puan-puan dan tuan-tuan”. Then I realised it sounds like the start of a poem… The hardest part of leaning either Indonesian or Malay is to get to practice… people kept switching to English!

[@hurindturambar]

Because they do speak english in malaysia, but here in Indonesia majority can't speak english haha

[@17meisha]

No no, we dont, indonesian rarely mix bahasa indonesia with english. If u say we mix it with our mother languages (traditional/local languages) then yes. Even i sometimes mix indonesia language with Javanese or sundanese at the same time, like : - Sebentar, tos ieu urng rek kemana deui? Sebentar, kemana : indonesia language Tos, ieu, urang, deui : sundanese - mbok yang bener toh yoh Mbok, toh, yoh : Javanese Yang, bener : indonesia We have so many local languages here, we more prefer to mix bahasa indonesia with our mother languages than English, 🤷

[@belphegor_tv]

They don't. Most Malaysians can't speak English. ​@@hurindturambar

[@thegrimmcommoner2203]

I was in Malaysia for a wedding and spent a week there. The people always light up when you speak even a little of Malay, happy that a foreigner made the effort. It's quite easy to learn.

[@hdajq892ey7]

if i learn indonesian, can i go to malaysian and be okay?

[@AjiRahman]

as an Indonesian, this easiness make me difficult to learn another languages. 😅

[@ezandman6804]

maybe try dutch language?

[@TakeHit0]

Or norwegian

[@kinokoxd99]

Damn i litterally learn english from from meme Edit:I am also indonesian

[@TakeHit0]

@@kinokoxd99 daz danke bruh

[@kilantravels]

@@ezandman6804 Dutch is more difficult than English, and we already struggle with the latter. Just because we have many Dutch loan words doesn’t make it easier to us. In fact, we probably have more English loanwords than Dutch now, and it still doesn’t help us with the language 😆

[@oxqlion9661]

ah yes, in Indonesia we do say "look at that mouse - mouse". Basically, if it's plural just say it twice.

[@she7061]

Honestly amazing wish English was like that

[@zahrazarqaa5210]

Mouse2 ✌️

[@cepeduck6577]

True

[@adejaya1692]

Not always. "Saya membeli buku" could mean "I bought a book/some books, many books".

[@oxqlion9661]

@@adejaya1692 well it depends on the question. If the question is "kamu habis dari mana?" ("where have you been?") then yes the answer is "saya habis membeli buku" (I just bought a book/some books"). But if the question is "apa saja yang kamu beli?" ("what did you buy?") then you would answer "saya membeli buku - buku ini" ("I bought these books"). So plural is always said twice anyways.

[@youtb-user]

Another fact about Indonesian: about 90% or more of Indonesian people's first language or mother tongue language is not Indonesian. Most of Indonesian people's mother tongue language is vernacular language based on region where they born/grow up in Indonesia. There are even some people in some regions in Indonesia that really can't speak Indonesian.

[@AnissaSafitri]

Most of us in Indonesian, we speak Indonesian language as 2nd or 3rd language

[@ghivifahmi4252]

Internet: Fighting over neopronouns Indonesian: DIA

[@KunjaBihariKrishna]

They often mix up he and she when speaking English, it's funny sometimes

[@cyraazalea6832]

seperti apa yang slalu kunantikaaannn

[@zebul5854]

@@cyraazalea6832 ..,aku inginkan... oh DIAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@suzyburger2548]

I am not indonesian but i speak bahasa melayu* and im justt soooo grateful we dont have pronouns in our languange

[@TalLeyKAL]

@@zebul5854 bruuuuuj 😂😂

[@Miuoshki]

Indonesian be like "why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?"

[@wayannandaryaramadhan3578]

Yoi

[@claudio7626]

Kevin

[@aussie_bay_flpz4166]

LOL

[@kotarou8530]

lmao

[@awubby]

🤣🤣

[@naufalzabady2767]

Bahasa Indonesia definitely one of the easiest language to learn, but rather hard for foreigner to speak. Especially for those who speak English, and Indonesians rarely speak formal language in daily uses. Indonesians love to speak using a lot of slang words

[@omhh1986]

People who speak easy languages usually have a smaller mental capacity and lower iq than the rest of the world

[@ikhsanramadhans214]

​@@omhh1986dude Iq has nothing to do with language, if it like that then why some of the Khoisan who speaks language with clicks and with tone also is not as advanced as us??

[@RoryRoo]

Yea, but for me, even if foreigners only speak formally at least it's understandable cause the language system is easy, better than my sorry ass Spanish at least:)

[@alchemist_one]

meh, compare it to Cantonese where there are lots of tones and thousands of characters

[@hydroclaws]

I am currently learning indonesian and it is definitely being the easiest language to learn based on the languages I have tried to learn and quit randomly, and also learning it makes me want to learn it more because of the amount of progress I already have!

[@lightninggaming4569]

Well,good luck learning the daily sentence structure,it's not as easy as you think it was.

[@hydroclaws]

@@lightninggaming4569 I knoooooowwwwwwwwww

[@tofakaa5661]

​​​@@hydroclawsyou don't have to worry, day to day indonesian is actually without rules, you can speak in any structure and locals will still understand it clearly, just sounded a bit weird for them. But the thing about Indonesians is that they will appreciate your effort in learning their language. Their doors will open for you any time and they will offer you food when you speak Indonesian even just a bit.

[@RoryRoo]

​@lightninggaming4569 naaah, day to day use of indonesian didn't really have a rule

[@bonnyfasius1216]

If your target is to talk to natives then I suggest learning the informal one instead of the formal one

[@nathanaelmoses7977]

English : there are many plural form in my language! Indonesia : hehe repeat them twice goes brrrrrrr brrrrrrr.

[@altafnaufal247]

*repeat them two two

[@muhammaddaffaarvianda5050]

@@altafnaufal247* repeat it it two two

[@theSkin_of_a_Killer_Bella]

love this

[@Azubi_Meatball4349]

Hehe repeat you you two two go brrrrrrr brrrrrrr

[@PoKeKidMPK1]

@@muhammaddaffaarvianda5050 * * repeat repeat it it two two * * repeat repeat it it two two

[@bonie_bonie_]

English : "I told you to not do that, but you did it anyway. Now you face the consequences" Indonesian : "Kan"

[@dedybadharu2804]

😁

[@revolvency]

English: told ya

[@annaling2366]

Lol at "kan" part. Shortest reply ever but 💯 true.

[@simbathelion123]

another alternative : "kan , udah dibilangin."

[@lesussie2237]

Informal indonesian is just so different to standard indonesian lmao

[@JohnathanPorkenstein]

Bro speaks in 1.5 speed on default

[@whosweptmymines3956]

My pastor was a missionary in Indonesia and he told me that it was the easiest language to learn. Nice to hear this!

[@Jh0nJhon]

Jesus Bless Indonesia 🙏🏻✝️

[@spellonyou7987]

Indonesian here, the first time I learned roman language I was quite confused with the feminine and masculine words I was like wtf why words need to have a gender 🤣

[@Josue-xd5ru]

As a English and Spanish speaker, I never questioned words having gender because it seemed normal to me but now I start to question why we actually do if millions of Indonesians are doing good without it 😂

[@captainblake4931]

Indonesian studying German here, why the f chair has a gender????

[@ericrawson2909]

A subject which sometimes crosses my mind, but I have never seen discussion of anywhere, is how the woke fanatics handle languages with gendered words. Life is enough of a minefield in English where words are not gendered.

[@BicycleFunk]

It is so seemingly arbitrary too, but does give some somewhat hilarious cultural context.

[@PermadeathHD]

@@captainblake4931 hehe it’s based on whether objects have a gendered aura LOL

[@rmdhn1]

English : Struggling to not assume pronouns Indonesian : Why do words need to have gender?

[@faith-uk1ov]

Tbh yes with how pronouns is very diverse with random stuff people create i think Indonesian language is a lot simple and most people wont get offende here

[@CaesarLvcivs]

And you think the English language has gendered words?

[@tristanneal9552]

@Blake Rose "If your whole identity is your pronouns you don't deserve to have them" -Tony Stank, The Avengers

[@Enaccul]

@@CaesarLvcivs Actor, actress. He, she (which was said in the video) waiter, waitress. And literally so many others. It's hard to notice if you're a native speaker, but English is full of arbitrarily gendered words.

[@melopuss375]

@Blake Rose ho boi wait until you go to japan and nobody’s even bothering with pronouns It’s really not important to have your gender confirmed to you on a daily basis

[@AbrahamCollins1786]

Bahasa Indonesa was one of my favorite languages to learn. It's been a long time since I've put it to use.

[@DokterMeow]

Mw praktek kak? Gue juga bljr b.indo

[@chickensouvlaki]

As a Greek, I am jealous. Why is the balcony door a girl

[@Cherry_Ramone]

😅

[@cursedcat6467]

She has always been a girl, la porte, die Tür, η πόρτα, la puerta, la porta, дверь, all feminine, so if anyone tries to win an online argument against you by telling you that you have never touched a women in your life, respond with the fact that a door is objectively a woman. In fact, my girlfriend is a door

[@aahhhhhhh726]

If Xiaomanyc run out of languages to learn, He'd start learning to speak to animals

[@ajjoseph8165]

😂😂😂

[@zayneytem]

We'll definitely see "Human speaks Alaskan Killer Whale! Local wildlife shocked to death!"

[@Eradicatetheobvious]

Eliza Thornberry in this bitch lol

[@Nuxest]

He just tries to learn like fictional languages in movies/series

[@Zzzz-lg3iw]

Transition from The language guy to Dr.Dolittle Lol. I’ll be waiting for that season of The Language Guy .

[@phadenswandemil4345]

When he said Indonesian words don't use different tenses, i was like "neither does mandarin, why isn't mandarin the easiest?" Then i remembered the mandarin writing system 😂

[@kyurise6685]

Tje pronunciation too man, fucking hell it's hard af

[@ZacharyRodriguez]

The tones put me off too.

[@SimplyAdia]

Tones tones tones tones hahaha so many tones!

[@stonkman7878]

to remember how to write it read it and memorise it is fucking torture (9 years of experience)

[@stonkman7878]

pronunciation for me gets easy after getting the hang of it maybe a few years, the memory work is the one you cannot get the hang of because logically speaking its memory work

[@Melissafullofgrace]

Sounds like a language I would love to learn. Short, sweet and to the point!

[@vogel2499]

He masked some ugly side of Indonesian language. In exchange of the non-existence of tenses, Indonesian verbs have complicated/sometimes very abritrary conjugation rules. Not as hardcore as Hungarian and Finnish, but still difficult to learn.

[@ilhamseptian1604]

​@@vogel2499i mean formal way is the easiest one but people might feel weird yo hear it....

[@Dafa__-xo6gg]

​@@ilhamseptian1604not in some places, Because many are used to foreigners speaking broken Indonesian. Me for example.

[@EsettanRick]

Indonesian is just like Norwegian, when you become fluent in Indonesian and decide to go to Indonesia, the speak a whole different langauge. what you may learn: "orang tua saya meminta saya untuk membelikannya makanan" what Indonesians may say: "gue disuruh bonyok beliin makanan"

[@imtiredtiredtired]

​@@EsettanRickHaha this, you could learn formal, text book indonesian for years and will be shocked that the spoken language is _very different_ . And that's not counting if your speaking partner somehow speaks Indonesian mixed with regional language

[@RolandDeschain1]

Thirty years ago, when I was in high school in Australia, Indonesian was the language we were made to learn. Just a couple of years before it was German.

[@va_sirberpasir9708]

Seems like your school like those games that gave sudden difficulty spikes

[@xxkissmeketutxx]

20 years ago the options were French, Italian or German

[@ashleycnossen3157]

Yes, my husband is Indonesian and as I started learning I realized it was literally the easiest language ever.

[@luqmanalif2758]

If u know indonesian , u can speak malay too. They're very similar

[@r2k88]

Until you learn that we have over 700 regional languages. Which is still actively used now.

[@Sajovo]

@@luqmanalif2758 kinda i dont even know malay that much

[@lestatschlongh8065]

@@luqmanalif2758 or you might not be able to speak malay but still understand a small part of it

[@rifkynda8588]

@@Sajovo Indonesian-Malay basically the same like Hindi-Urdu, but Indonesian dominated and more popular than malay

[@VcentChips]

As an Indonesian seeing my language has been explained makes me want to re-learn my language

[@wahyudyatmika5119]

Ikr? Watching this I was like, "Is it that easy for foreigners to learn? Damn"

[@Akhtar48]

Banh Nama karakter profile pic kau apa banh

[@Advokaiser]

@@wahyudyatmika5119 Is it difficult for you guys?

[@wahyudyatmika5119]

@@Advokaiser nah not really, plus the everyday slangs very much disregard the already small amount of grammar we have, so I can say it is pretty easy to speak our language

[@abrahamsitompul2851]

@@Advokaiser because our language are so simple, it's a bit hard for some of us to learn other languages

[@FebruaryHas30Days]

I wish Indonesian became an international language

[@amdbox_]

international language used to spread through colonization, the problem is indonesia is not colonizing other countries

[@ladycempluk2481]

John McWhorter(linguist) suggested that colloquial Indonesian would be an ideal universal language for the world.

[@elintocable0072]

I approve that, ONU and international organizations should start using Indonesian.

[@coolbeans7z539]

Nah make it Esperanto

[@FebruaryHas30Days]

@@coolbeans7z539 Esperanto can only be used in Europe and South America. Indonesian can be used in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the US.

[@smurfiennes]

It’s easy to learn it, just memorize the words and put them together to form a sentence. Done.

[@bauhiniafolia9673]

Indonesian language is expected to be learned by 700+ tribes, each has their own language / dialect, so it gotta be simple

[@henrytusco375]

Agreed! Our founding fathers chose Riau Melayu dialect to be our Lingua Franca because its simplicity compared to other ethnic languages and how common the were spoken across major islands due to trading. Although most spoken language at that time was Javan but it's definitely harder to learn ;)

[@Qwerty-jc3so]

I'm sorry for interrupting, but what's the history of this language? Why were the tribes learning this language? I'm not indonesian but this comment made me curious.

[@dianputra7336]

@@Qwerty-jc3so its a language created to united the whole nation, from sabang to marauke. Each province has their own language and dialect, so the founding fathers make this one language so people from anywhere in Indonesia can communicate with each other no matter from which part of Indonesia they came from.

[@Qwerty-jc3so]

@@dianputra7336 wow, that's truly amazing. Pardon me but, did it cause any protests or objection when they tried to "impose" this language on the tribes? Or were they cool with it? I'm not condemning it at all, but i'm just curious because my country has a similar situation of having too much diversity in languages, and the efforts of enforcing one uniform language accross the country has been futile here. I want to know how the great founding fathers dealt with the trouble.

[@bauhiniafolia9673]

@@Qwerty-jc3so riau language was spoken across the archipelago since it was the language of trade in the area (its part of the maritime silk road). The decision to use riau language as a basis was agreed upon the "Sumpah Pemuda / the youth pledge" event where nearly each island and tribe send their youth representative to gather and discuss the basis of indonesian independence. They agreed upon 3 things 1. That we will fight together as one indonesia 2. That they are part of one nation, one indonesia 3. That "Bahasa Indonesia / indonesian language" would be used as the language of unity So the decision was made from a nation wide agreement, and should be used if you're communicating to other people from different culture. Riau was choosen because the language only has 1 level of communication, unlike several others. But Riau is only the basis, since Indonesian borrow a lot of words from outsiders and from the different culture of the tribes inside as well

[@isaacwinoto3312]

As an Indonesian, I can attest to this. However, colloquial and formal Indonesian sound very different, so if you're thinking of learning the language through Duolingo to be able to converse fluently with locals, you'll only go so far. Immersing with the Indonesian culture is the way to go!

[@Dhi_Bee]

I’m one of those English speakers trying to learn Indonesian from Duolingo for the past few months (along with 2 other languages). Compared to the other 2, I’m still learning the very basics like “saya membaca menu. Saya ingin telur dan roti dengan kopi” And I’m not even sure I got that correct haha. Anyhow what do you mean by colloquial? Do they just talk an informal version of Indonesia or is it mixed with their local languages (like Balinese, Acehnese, Tetum, or a west Papuan language mixed with Indonesian)?

[@advanceringnewholder]

@@Dhi_Bee Every ethics has a different way of speaking Indonesian. For example, banjarese doesn't use e and o

[@alexandersonmei]

@@Dhi_Bee it depends, region by region. But if you speak formal Indonesian, about 9 times out of 10 people will understand you anyways.

[@littleidiotka]

@@Dhi_Bee I've seen people speak informally, but even if you speak formally, they will understand

[@samirkhoury2935]

@@Dhi_Bee here is an example from my area. In formal indonesian we say "saya sedang makan sekarang, ayo kesini" for "i am eating right now, come here", but in my area we say "lagi kemek gwej, skut sokin"

[@Alonoda]

Started learning today! It's really fun and it's so cool to know how possible it is to understand people in that part of the world 😊

[@randomguy0047]

As an Indonesian, I'd like to contribute my 2 cents. Lots of people here glorify how hard the language is when it comes to daily use in communication due to slangs and whatnot, however, I believe that it is NOT that hard, AS LONG as you are willing to spend some time immersing yourself with native speakers. The more you do that, eventually your brain starts picking up on the slang and builds up an internal dictionary where you can translate entire sentences/phrases into shorter phrases. For instance (I am not sure what region/language/dialect the examples below are from) Lho?/Lah? - What?/That's not right... Kan? - I told you not to , now you see what the consequences are.../"told ya" There are also simpler loanwords. Some examples are substitutes for certain nominal of money (from Hokkien iirc) such as goceng, gocap, ceban, etc However, it IS true that there is a distinction between formal/textbook Indonesian and the Indonesian used in day-to-day communication.

[@wolfiebunnyshopofficial3923]

"mouse mouse" or "a lot of mouse" has to be my fave thing ever now

[@dezzydream]

i mean repeating nouns does exist in english but it's usually used in rural dialects and with a tonal emphasis on the first word. like where i'm from, saying "food food" refers to a meal in comparison to a snack. it even works with adjectives, saying "big big" simply adds emphasis to the idea that something is big. it's usually considered "informal" speech but honestly it's an interesting linguistic quirk and just shows how language can evolve entirely new conventions in only a hundred years or so if isolated.

[@argo1879]

@@dezzydream the food food thing is something that everyone does I think. It’s just telling someone you mean “real” food not fake food like a snack as you said. In general we don’t do that in English though, and we definitely don’t just repeat nouns to make them plural

[@wolfiebunnyshopofficial3923]

@@dezzydream I mean, we do that in English all the time, all of those. it's just general phrasing. yeah, it's not formal, but everyone does it. y'know, "do you like me or LIKE like me?" "do you want snacks or do you want FOOD food?" "that thing is BIG big" it's pretty common. I've just never heard it in the English language for specifically mice

[@kyupin1075]

@@wolfiebunnyshopofficial3923 it's used for emphasis in those cases though, I've never heard of saying a word twice to make it plural in English. "food food" just means real food, not lots of food/plural food (food is plural anyway so maybe not the best example)

[@wolfiebunnyshopofficial3923]

@@kyupin1075 yeah that's what I meant, its more an adjective than a plural

[@iwillsmiteyall]

petition for english to ditch ‘mice’ and adopt ‘mouse mouse’

[@Violetisnowback]

From now on I will always say mouse mouse instead of mice

[@ivorellarackley4401]

**signs the petition petition**

[@karadiberlino]

Sorry, signed up for LOT OF MOUSE! 😂😂😂

[@carmelitajones7779]

🤣🤣

[@MeineUmweltSpiegeltMich]

house...houses........mouse...Mouses

[@trollboy2910]

The guy who invented French should be thrown in prison and be forced to learn Indonesian.

[@gatoreptiliano8785]

No, better force him to learn Haitian Creole, that hits closer to home 😂

[@mariemelansongundy-vx4ox]

Thank you! great crash course. Would of never thought Indonesian.

[@teagannam]

“mouse mouse, a lot of mouse” is the single best thing I’ll hear all day

[@immortalwitch]

banyak tikus or tikus - tikus. banyak tikus - tikus is incorrect use of grammar. Indonesia and Malaysia has fairly same language (some might disagree) but we are able to understand them without learning their language. Basic communication is easy but language teacher makes literature a whole another level of difficulty. In other words, I hate learning my own nation language that makes everything unnecessarily difficult when it is so freaking easy. Like why ancient Malay needs to be included in examm like whyyyy? It's not like we're travelling back in time ughh. Sorry for rambling. This is the frustration of high school student.

[@FuriouzDragon45]

@@immortalwitch yeah bro like why tf do i need to know what that laksamana say to the sultan in the 19th century or some shit. Is pencurian the actual act of the thieving or does it mean somebody got rob?

[@chikoritapkmnfg7331]

Same, so cute!!

[@chenxiongxiong6778]

@@immortalwitch banyak tikus is correct. Literally means lots of mouse. Tikus-tikus means more than one mouse. Both tikus-tikus and banyak tikus are correct.

[@immortalwitch]

@@chenxiongxiong6778 yeah. I said banyak tikus - tikus is the one that's wrong.

[@cawrtnei]

"A lot of mouse" I like that

[@Josue-xd5ru]

*everyone liked that*

[@anomienormie8126]

I like mouse mouse more

[@ucupzzz3759]

@@anomienormie8126 but actually, mouse mouse translated in indonesian is a proverb to cramps.

[@YusufGamingq]

MOUSE MOUSE in indonesia is TIKUS TIKUS A LOT OF MOUSE in indonesia is BANYAK TIKUS BANYAK means MANY so you don't have to add some A and OF

[@soundmattersuk]

I like a lot of mousse. Preferably chocolate mousse...

[@Coconut997]

Foreigner here, it's quite easy to distinguish the differences of the words once you get used to it :)

[@CraigSakada]

All the Malay family in Austronesian speak this way. And they also don’t have words that label one as male or female. It’s gender fluid, simplified and very easy to learn. 😊

[@ladycempluk2481]

John McWhorter(linguist) suggested that colloquial Indonesian would be an ideal universal language for the world.

[@DindaNastiti]

As indonesian, when I read the title I was expecting.. "Oh the easiest language to learn, I gotta learn this language" 😭🌪 yeah other languages are difficult

[@holliswilliams8426]

To be fair, English and Spanish are not particularly difficult either.

[@lujuria9920]

@@holliswilliams8426 agreed, when i came to the US, it took me 6 months to communicate with no assistance, and less than a year to speak, write, and communicate with others fluently. I took a Spanish class for my HS and found it easy (as I am Hispanic), but the ppl around me found it hard due to the many dif ways of talking abt things, but they still understood it pretty well in about 3 years. They’re still pretty easy I agree

[@pqb0]

@@holliswilliams8426 Lol english is so much easier than spanish, try memorizing all conjugations for just 1 verb Lmao .

[@iatsarulashvili3893]

Lmao, imagine trying to learn Georgian as an Indonesian.

[@alibcan]

@@pqb0 u think its easy because its the language u grew up speaking dont look at it from ur own perspective look at it from a universal perspective (sorry for the bad english lol i hope u get what i mean)

[@declan5073]

"mice is just mouse mouse" Oh how I would love for this to be in English

[@thegoddess6569]

Yep people is orang orang and orang is person .

[@hijugontis]

ah yes because english has such complex plural forming 😂

[@sfgrgfsf212]

@@hijugontis It actually does though, plurals sometimes randomly change spelling and letters and stuff. Battery/batteries mouse/mice sandwich/sandwiches goose/geese cactus/cacti shelf/shelves

[@skywatcher458]

@@hijugontis don't forget a plural forn of animals. a murder of crows a pack of wolfs a herd of cows

[@e.h-v.8070]

Yes! It is more more better to lean many many less.

[@GoodG24]

Me as an malaysian: *That look of superiority*

[@mikeking9373]

I love this guy. He's a genius with language, and he's super friendly.

[@stevenalexander6262]

As an indonesian this is hilarious tbh, and I never really noticed these as much

[@misterrwiggle]

imagine Indonesian doing colonialism 🗿

[@zebul5854]

@@misterrwiggle learning spanish, russian, germany, or C̶h̶i̶n̶e̶s̶e̶ mandarin would've been much easier

[@rendyajadech1957]

@@zebul5854 we cant, we are too permissive 😅

[@cathpalug1221]

@@rendyajadech1957 _majapahit gang has enter the chat_

[@jirehemanuel]

@@cathpalug1221 imagine majapahit conquering the world 👀

[@cibongpokemontrainer4040]

Basically all language around the world : we should make it hard and complicated it differs based on context, time, gender. And also it shouldnt be said as it was written Indonesian : why?

[@lesussie2237]

Indonesian is a simplified and standardised form of malay to be used by all indonesians so it's designed to be easy to learn Mind you, standard indonesian is nothing like the indonesian that is actually used

[@Josue-xd5ru]

@@lesussie2237 Few questions. So does every Indonesian speak the standardized version? or do they have their own versions that they speak too? If so, can they understand eachother? Like can someone who speaks solely Malay understand Indonesian? Excuse my ignorance.

[@Maranakech]

@@Josue-xd5ru bunch of indonesians use a 'slang' words daily or just a more of 'unformal' (in Indonesia we call this "tidak baku") form of words which makes it easier to speak. ps. sorry if my explanation is bad...

[@r2k88]

@@Josue-xd5ru we also have dialects or local set of languages as well. If you look up Indonesia in wikipedia, it says it has OVER 700 regional languages. Some of them are: Javanese (majority), Sundanese, Balinese, Papuanese, and so on and so forth. So yeah it’s good to have a unifying language. Also some of these regional languages may or may not be understood between each other.

[@lesussie2237]

@@Josue-xd5ru no not really. Standard indonesian is usually only heard in the news and very formal occasions like public speeches. Most indonesians speak informal versions that have heavily contracted grammar and influence from surounding regional languages. Standard malay and indonesian are about 80-90% similar, so if you know one you can understand the other, but informal malay and indonesian (the one used most of the time) are only about 40-50% similar to one another This video by langfocus goes into more detail if you're interested kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZykk4GapNlnm5I

[@tenochtitlan5]

The thing is if u use formal Indonesia to native it will sounded awkward

[@all4fitz]

I have always loudly stated that English is a ridiculous language but yet it's the only one I know and I never was interested in learning another one. You have made me more intrigued than ever before in a language.

[@semaraksuara2234]

Because of being the easiest, most Indonesians find it quite difficult to learn other languages with complicated rules. On the contrary, their clear pronunciation makes it easier to sound like a native when speaking other languages. Still requires some exercises tho.

[@devitaromlah2866]

Maybe they are just dumb when learning other languages.

[@LUTHKK0L]

Can confirm, learning German is hard because literal objects have genders for some ungodly reason, like how pizza is feminine and how salad is masculine, *_why???_*

[@Alex_Eh]

@@LUTHKK0L I mean… Die Pizza and der Salad just sounds right haha

[@fajarn7052]

Yes, we don't have default accent (besides our own ethnic accent), it makes speaking other language somewhat easier.

[@missaltocontralto]

@@LUTHKK0L Karena takdir, Kak. 😂

[@mynona2491]

"In English words change a lot" Laughs in german articles and genders My favourite german word : Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

[@wavell14]

Laughs at German in polish

[@Niall69Irish]

English people really do be thinking that english is difficult.... like not even close. One of the easiest, if not THE easiest language in the world

[@mynona2491]

@@Niall69Irish I'm actually glad it's not the most complicated language. We can understand each other almost all around the globe. Hundreds of years ago that would've been a super power

[@wariret8866]

@@mynona2491 tbh English is very similair to French and Spanish and many other Latin languages, it's simple for them to learn it because of similair pronunciation and such But I just hate how people in this comment section act as if languages were made in one go and shiting on them as if they were made to be spoken by everyone on this earth and didn't evolve from how people over hundreds of years picked words and pronunciation from each other to form a language

[@dapodix]

🇩🇪 : achtung! eim ze moust komplicated language.. Muhahaha 🇸🇮 : *shakes head*

[@alexx_93]

I'm tryna learn Malay and Indonesian at the same time rn, lol..ngl pretty fun

[@amdbox_]

learn indonesian first then you'll gonna understand malay quickly

[@EvaMikhaylova]

As a Malaysian… You need to learn Bahasa Indonesia first then Malay because Malay language is more complicated such a verb changing and slang etc Here’s the thing… Malay got more slang that’s why they couldn’t speak fluently. Malay people speak with a mix Malay and English on their sentences. We call it Manglish. Malay + English. After that you can learn Tagalog which is sound similar a bit to Bahasa Indonesia and Malay. Good luck bro

[@rifkynda8588]

Malay is hard and rarely people speak Malay even in Malaysia they speak english more. Better learn Bahasa Indonesia

[@odeychan9014]

@@rifkynda8588 terpaling tahu 😂 kalau belajar bahasa Melayu memang automatik faham org indon cakap apa bukan sebaliknya 😅

[@odeychan9014]

@@amdbox_ sebenarnya terbalik tapi kalau dia nak cakap dgn org Indonesia sahaja bolehlah tapi kalau nak dapatkan the best of both world, belajar bahasa Melayu dulu

[@inventorsam]

Ohhhhh, so that’s why people from that part of the world sometimes say things like “I go to store tomorrow”?

[@HenryS360]

I think it's more general than that. My mom knows all about conjugating and tenses in Spanish but just doesn't do it in English. She's heard "I'm not going" a billion times yet always says "I no go". That's why I think it's better to just learn phrases first instead of individual words.

[@user-fh5ov4tu2j]

My favorite part of the language is that its phonetically consistent. No matter what word you never change how a letter is pronounced

[@aiko9393]

Well, not the all letters. The most famous example is how you pronounce the E in sate (satay) and empat (4) 😁

[@phoenixxena8194]

AMEN!!

[@kodax1292]

English is so annoying in that context, the way its spelling is so inconsistent makes it much harder to learn

[@Niall69Irish]

@@kodax1292 wait till you discover french

[@byunbaekhyun2283]

@@aiko9393 sate is only used by javanese, people outside java didnt call it sate, they call it satai.

[@sub-zero_]

oooohhh thats why a friend from there said «I play yesterday» not that they’re too bad in english, its just how they would say it in native tounge. thank you

[@iamgorgeous]

Yeah, many of us feeling frustrated studying english because we are not used to the tenses (including me lol). The suffix -ed like in "changed" and "cooked" also kinda hard to pronounce for us indonesian so you might not hear it when an indonesian (whose english not really good) trying to say it to you :"D

[@Zedvais]

Most of the one who learn English later in their life or those who just speak basic English will be talking to you the same way your friend does. I have a lot of friends who struggles with switching out indonesian and english. I have no problem since i learn English from the age of 4 and i grew up speaking both but English wasn’t a big thing when i grew up and people learn it enough just to write a letter or watching movie.

[@barbarapomeroy6497]

Seems like yours could use some work so you might want to also reign in the automatic judgments.

[@ketchuppedase2867]

Yesss now you understand...

[@revolvency]

Globish is still work I guess, better than not talking 😭

[@umaxen0048]

"Hey, did you find your dog dog?"

[@hermontarmand2404]

😂

[@BeeOfDoom69]

"Hey, udah ketemu anjing-anjingnya?" It's legit

[@p_louis]

Hearing mouse mouse is weird even though I've essentially been saying that all my life.

[@Eric-kg2nc]

One time I asked my Spanish teacher, “wait why is pizza a girl?”

[@tian3092]

The shape: V😑

[@sellmoon]

it's because it ends with "a", if it ended with "o" it would be a boy, if it ended with other letter.... it depends 😅

[@sellmoon]

in my language (pt) water is female 😅is it "male" in spanish?

[@michaelcolbourn6719]

​@@tian3092 pizzas are circular....

[@frnwdx]

​@@sellmoonyes, it is. Sometimes not every word in spanish that ends in "a" is exactly a "female", so that's why it's so hard for non-spanish speakers to learn the language

[@matcha_]

You are literally the 8th person in the past month who's popped up and recommended Indonesian as the easiest language to learn (I watch a lot of language/culture related content). Ironically I also had Indonesian food for the first time yesterday. Is this a sign to learn Indonesian? This 👏is 👏a 👏sign👏

[@JaysGunner]

Who are the 7 other people if you don't mind me asking?

[@irinka_katlova]

Welcome! 😁😁😁

[@steinlfromthebronx7372]

@A then if you're actually being expert you would understand Malay lil bit 😅 That's why there's a lot of foreign KZbinrs made "Indonesian vs Malay", it's almost like "British vs American English".

[@umumumumumumumumumumumumum]

Yes, view it as a sign 🙌 I need to begin a language venture as well- I’m thinking German or Japanese (as different as those options are) & that wouldn’t be ironic btw, more a coincidence or correspondence

[@jauxro]

I wonder if learning Indonesian would make it easier to learn Tagalog, if they're related enough :o

[@teslawhite]

You inspired me to teach my kids more language. I look at all words as synonyms with some rules and somehow that clicks great for them and me. I knew enough french and german to navigate and that was it. Now my 13 year old is neck deep in japanese, her 6th conversational language. She is taking an online course in japanese currently, designed for japanese students with an american teacher and is doing great. So thank you!

[@ronniedefelice8743]

Yes I'm learning Italian right now and it can be confusing this way. For example there's like 6 different ways to say eat. And a lot of words have more than 1 meaning. It can be confusing words change depending on gender, whether there's more than one person, past tense and so on. It's a pain but it's going good

[@Syakuro]

As an Indonesian I agree with you, but I think most foreigner struggles a lot on the affix of the language. It's kinda confusing sometimes, but once you got the hang of it yes Indonesian is a pretty easy language to learn.

[@kevindavidson8281]

Affix?

[@silentviewer.17yearsago65]

@@kevindavidson8281 suffix and prefix in verbs. it's frustating. even for natives

[@fritzid]

Plus it's agglutinative lmao *Per-tanggung-jawab-an-nya*

[@halimmoesa3097]

It doesn't really matter tho, unless you wanna be really masteres in the language (which even most Indonesian are not) Even in daily conversation, we tend to eliminate the affix and suffix, as long you know how to use di- (as passive) you can communicate without much problem in Indonesian. E.g : Formal: Aku sedang mencuci baju Informal: Aku lagi cuci baju Formal : Dia menggoreng ikan Informal : Dia goreng ikan Formal : kamu harus mempertanggungjawabkan perbuatanmu Informal: kamu harus tanggungjawab Formal : aku sedang mengetik Informal : aku lagi ngetik/ketik

[@Syakuro]

@@halimmoesa3097 True. Informal Indonesian is easy because it depends on the context of the conversation.

[@allifairm]

I vote to start a movement of Indonesian as the international language. 👍🏻

[@nicklatino7157]

We can just modify English in the same sense. Because so many people around the world already speak English

[@altafnaufal247]

@@nicklatino7157 Agree!

[@dhanlitozi184]

Yeah. Just modify the English, grammar and spelling is hard.

[@SujalRajput10]

Then we would need Colonisation 2.0

[@derekrivera3487]

@@SujalRajput10 wow coolest name I've seen

[@jacobwarmack8751]

The thing I respect most about this guy is that he chose a goal that is impossible to complete, so he’ll always have a reason to keep going

[@XBoxwolf]

Saya adalah seorang ilmu bahasa dan saya juga seorang polyglot, memberi saya berkata di mana kamu benar dan di mana kamu salah. Bahasa indonesia lebih mudah untuk sampai nilai komunikasi, tapi untuk berbicara dengan lancar dan bisa paham bahasa formal atau bahasa selain bahasa seharian, bahasa indonesia lebih susah. I am a Linguist and a Polyglot so let me tell you where you are right and where you are wrong. As someone who speaks indonesian ( I learned it at Universitas Negeri Malng, he is right and wrong at the same time, in order to get to a basic communication level of the language B1, I would say that Indonesian is very very easy. maybe it is the easiest in the world. But to be able to become fluent and understand news, films novels, it is a lot harder that Spanish. This is because Indonesians mostly use the root word in everyday speech because its easier and to express simple ideas it is all that is needed. But formal Indonesian is hard to learn because unlike Spanish or English, people almost never speak formally with those bigger more complex words, I would even say that the most common 5000 words in Indonesian are used more often than the most common 5000 words in English or Spanish. Kerja, means work, that is the root word, and thus gives meaning to many terms for example. bekerja kerjaan kinerja mempekerjakan mengerjakan pekerja pekerjaan pengerjaan prakerja sekerja sepekerjaan tekerjakan. Some of these means I know well, but others I am not sure and since no one ever uses things terms in everyday speech they are very hard to learn because lack of practice.

[@johngaller2751]

"so no Indonesian spelling bees" made me laugh out loud at my desk!

[@toasterpro71]

same with bosnian

[@arya_1503_fancade]

A lot of languages too

[@alfrredd]

same with spanish

[@nomekuni1307]

An Indonesian here. I was confused the first time I heard “spelling bee”. Like.. what? You spell bees? What does that mean? 🙃

[@arya_1503_fancade]

@@nomekuni1307 Spelling bee is a competition where you have to spell a word. For the word "bee"? I don't know English spelling is irregular so it's hard to spell a word and that's why English is chosen on the spelling bee competition. On the other hand, Indonesian spelling is regular, so it's very easy to spell a word. If Indonesian is chosen, it will be boring because everyone can spell it.

[@aciesongbird9052]

My dad learned Indonesian in high school, and he said the exact same thing! He loved how easy it was to learn, and he was actually taught by an Indonesian woman, so they learned about the culture and traditions of Indonesia alongside the language. He said after about two years he even started dreaming in Indonesian! He lived in Australia so he figured Indonesia would be the most useful language to learn as if was one of the closest foreign languages (because imagine travelling to Europe, what could he possibly need French or German for?,, Proceeded to marry a German woman LMAO). Unfortunately he can only remember a few basic phrases now (thank you, please, you're welcome, etc) and swear words, but the language still interests me so much!

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

"and swear words" seems like recurring thing with people lol

[@ann_alanth]

@@eyeballpapercut4400 Indonesian swear words are the best ngl

[@sahrielnewbie9054]

NGENTODD!!

[@ryanhanks8816]

What swear word he remeber?

[@dizzydisciple]

Dang now I wanna learn Indonesian for some reason lol

[@marypuleo8754]

You are amazing. To hold all those words and different languages in your brain. Languages must be your special talent, it’s definitely a great skill to have, all the different cultures you can converse with. I envy you.

[@linggag.a.9538]

idk, my australian friend said, before she moved to Indo she thought Indonesian was so easy cuz she aced all her Indo classes. But when she arrived here she couldnt understand a thing because, apparently the hardest part of Indonesian is, people tend not to speak in the proper structure like you found in your text book and they tend to mix their vocabs with the other hundreds local languages. LOL so yeah apparently every language has its own perk ❤

[@RonaldMSalyer]

It’s true. I’m the opposite I only know slang Indonesian and I can’t understand formal Indonesian or anything you’d find in a class etc

[@Nophreetime]

Exactly....!! Hahaha... There's always a catch 😜

[@arfansthename]

For example, an informal way to say sorry (formal is "maaf"), is just to say "sorry"

[@jlwkss]

@@arfansthename wait is sorry in indonesian the same as english??

[@arfansthename]

@@jlwkss no it's just indonized

[@SantomPh]

Indonesian becomes very difficult when you include loanwords, portmanteaus, millenial speak, urban/rural slang, cyberslang and codeswitching with the 700+ other languages in Indonesia. This is also how people talk casually, not some specific method.

[@meferswift]

Other language pretty have the same. Its easier if you talk yhe decent aka formal indonesian.

[@coderhub-tech7942]

As a native Indonesian speaker, true that

[@coderhub-tech7942]

However the slang is pretty easy to understand once you dip your toes in them

[@ioncekilledamanwithmyshoe]

Yeah, but most of that also applies to almost every single language which are already harder.

[@elgazu1857]

If you include slangs, accents and dialects; then Spanish would be the hardest language because every single Spanish country has very different slangs, accents and dialects, we can’t even understand each other and we speak the same language. Im from Colombia and it’s difficult for me to understand a Chilean, and I’ve got multiple mexican friends that can’t understand a lot of words that I say because of my Colombian accent.

[@mikesozickgaming1012]

I'm learning Indonesian because of my family, and it's so great knowing I can ignore a lot of words. All I have to focus on is the main points. They just connect themselves. No "a" or "am."

[@kabloom6776]

In my opinion, having different verbs for each tense, plural singular etc makes a language a lot more beautiful.

[@maesyrae5456]

“Mouse mouse” thank you for this knowledge. I will now do this in English

[@MsHojat]

Nothing wrong with the convention of adding an "s or es" to the end of a word though. The problem is with the silly exceptions where that's not how to say it. You could just try to break those exceptions by saying "mouses" instead.

[@erensnk5034]

In indonesia it just, banyak tikus or tikus-tikus. Banyak = more than one.

[@umharr]

@@erensnk5034 isn’t that bahasa melayu???

[@alvinr17]

@@umharr melayu/indonesian almost the same

[@samgyeopsal569]

@@MsHojat yes it’s a great idea. The trouble of repeating the word is that it becomes too long. Adding as “S” at the back makes thing shorter.

[@thenitpickycat]

Finally someone said that indonesian is the easiest language ever.

[@ilhamseptian1604]

I felt that after realized how hard to learn Arabic and English lmao

[@xryanxdxgaming4925]

Pov: lu ga bisa indo

[@cek0792]

@@xryanxdxgaming4925 POV : Anda mengunakan Bahasa Indonesia informal

[@spidergoblin.]

Banyak dari mereka mengatakan bahasa Indonesia susah, mungkin susahnya di bagian penggunaan prefiks me-, se-, ke-, pe-, dsb dan juga sufiks -an, -kan, -nya, -i, dsb

[@yyy2438]

🤣👍

[@_Unpopular_Opinion_]

Spanish is also a phonetic language

[@zeuslim1543]

i didnt know indonesian was this easy for foreigners😂

[@perfectsplit5515]

Between Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, German, Japanese, Turkish, and Indonesian; Indonesian is definitely the easiest. Grammar is simple and words have only one tense. I once taught my 5-year old nephew to tell his Indonesian grandfather (my father), “Saya mau angoor” (I want wine) Russian words are the hardest to pronounce.

[@shinsha_]

@@perfectsplit5515 why did you teach that to him? 😂

[@perfectsplit5515]

@@shinsha_ It is a “tradition” whenever I learn the basics of a new language through the Pimsleur CDs. Immediately after learning how to say, “I want a beer / I want wine”, I teach a young child to speak it in that foreign language to an adult who speaks that language as a native language. I once taught a 4th grader in a Hispanic majority school to tell his primary teacher, “Yo quero unaservesa” (I want a beer)

[@techpassion4126]

@@perfectsplit5515 Angoor is wine over there? I didn't know that, that's interesting! Across the pond here in Malaysia Anggur just means grape!

[@perfectsplit5515]

@@techpassion4126 The Pimsleur CDs said that Anggur is wine. Coincidentally, when I had my nephew say, “Saya mau anggur” to my Indonesian mother (his grandmother), she interpreted it as, “I want grapes.” But when he said it to my father (his grandfather), he interpreted it as, “I want wine.” Additionally, I visited my extended family in Indonesia in 2003 and my grand uncle was at a party. He had the title of “Kukong” and was an honored member of the family. He was the only relative at that party who did not remember me and did not know that I spoke no Indonesian. He asked me, “Ciapa bapah?” (Who are you?). The other relatives there knew that I could not understand him, but said nothing, to “prank” him. My Tante Betty (Aunt Betty) answered him by jokingly saying, “He is Mister Bush”. Then after a pause, he figured it out and said, “You don’t speak Indonesian!” Everyone else there busted out laughing. I had no idea what was going on.

[@lupine.spirit161]

meanwhile in germany: a bus is male, a tram is female and a bike is just a thing

[@dakotareynolds3049]

Also, men are male, women are female, boys are male, and girls are a thing

[@aiaesthetics1124]

😂😂😂

[@rexlongfellow]

😂😂😂😂

[@VovanPo]

in russian bus tram and bike is all male

[@Tombless]

This is so true, I started learning Indonesian a few months ago, and in the first week I already knew how to form so many sentences by myself

[@WallzOff]

Yes Bahasa Melayu also works like this and BM has similar words with Indonesian words like makan

[@HimaMotovlog]

English : “I’ve told you to not to do something stupid” Indonesian : “Kan”

[@rexluther]

So true! Never realize this one.

[@alb12345672]

@@rexluther "Kan" means yes/true in Hebrew, kind of the same meaning :lol:

[@lil_jong-un6668]

see?

[@reigenlucilfer6154]

@@lil_jong-un6668 was about to say this. ive seen this meme format a lot but even the english had their ways to express things in an efficient/short way.

[@lil_jong-un6668]

@@reigenlucilfer6154 Yep. Honestly i'm getting sick of Indonesian spreading this incorrect, overused, unfunny joke. Instead of being funny, this joke expose your own lack of knowledge about English.

[@lacee0]

Wow! In high school I always thought a language like that would exist but was convinced by teachers language wouldnt work in a simple way. I gotta make some "I told you so" phone calls

[@qb4097]

gotta make the call soon then👀

[@chocho6766]

me as Indonesian : why are other language have so many rule

[@andreaskailola6420]

@@chocho6766 ikr

[@The_Divergent]

🤷‍♂️

[@lacee0]

@@chocho6766 that's what I'm saying. All the rules seem so unnecessary and complicated especially my first language.

[@coolbrotherf127]

While English does have verb conjugations, it's actually in the same category as Indonesian as an analytic language which focuses on changing meaning with mostly through context and word order. English does this a lot and is why it's so flexible with it's sentence structure. Romance languages from Latin are fusional language that use word form changes and endings to communicate details. There's also agglutinative languages such as Japanese, Turkish, and Arabic which add many endings and particles to words to add specifics to each word. I think that's why English speakers actually pick up languages like Indonesian and Malay pretty easily while Japanese and Arabic are so hard. Agglutination isn't easy for us.

[@sunhee693]

Actually, Indonesian is also an agglutinative language.

[@BravoBrakas]

thai is a super easy language as well, for all the same reasons listed in the video. Its written exactly the way you say it and there is barely any grammar and you dont need to bend verbs. The only hard part about thai is to learn what tone to use but again if you just learn the thai alfabet first you will know exactly how to say anything. The alfabet is quite hard though with a total of over 70 letters and you don´t write a word in the same order we do in english. For example you might write the word "hair" like "ahri" if you translate right of letter for letter. Since they write the vowels first and you need to read each word, syllable for syllable. So to write hair you need to write the syllable ha, with the letters a first then h, and then syllable ir with the letter r first then i. You cant just read it from left to right like we do. But once you learn it it´s super easy to use. There is no need for punctuations either when reading, you can just non stop write without and spaces, commas, dots .... etc. Youcanjustwritelikethisanditsnoproblem

[@dorikmaks5118]

Lol, what about the alphabets? To much tonal words in thai

[@samcresp5440]

Indonesian was the language that was taught in my Australian schooling. It’s definitely very easy for kids who will 100% not pay attention, I still can introduce myself, carry a basic conversation and count to ten+. It’s just too bad our teacher never wanted to expand on it and he was a not very nice man, despite being Indonesian.

[@grassfield5177]

Kinda surprised Indonesian is taught in other countries! A shame to hear that you didnt have a good experience though.

[@johncalabria1607]

Yep! I learnt it in Australia too. I was just talking about this at work today, and the Americans I was with were surprised when I told them how easy it was. When I saw this video I thought “Indonesian”. I was right!

[@itsfudge_]

Woah nice. Jadi, seharusnya anda mengerti apa yang saya katakan sekarang.

[@Fkacu]

What a missed, maybe he was hate his job. Lol

[@screamqueensfan288]

@@Fkacu girl, that grammar be looking like Indonesian grammar💀

[@zeleniawolfe]

As an Indonesian this is why I find learning new languages kinda hard. Why are there 3 verbs for words or gender 😭😂

[@toasterboy7311]

bro is speaking in 2x speed

[@BETAmosquito]

I wish my Indonesian teach was as passionate as you, I might have actually learned something, terima kasih

[@faiq026]

Semangat belajar bahasa indonesianya

[@jonpaul3868]

English be like : 2 cats Indonesian: mate, we know the cat is plural you put "2" in front of it. No need to add the unnecessary "s"

[@LeviRHogan]

Same thing happens in Irish. A dog = madra. Dogs = madraí. 2 dogs = dhá madra.

[@unslaadkrosis9435]

Same in Turkish, dog = köpek, 2 dogs = 2 köpek

[@Ryan-cb1ei]

Well that’s kind of silly to say because you can also just say cats to imply there are multiple. Saying two is just more specific. But saying cats is quicker than cat-cat…

[@jonpaul3868]

@@Ryan-cb1ei this is unfortunate. Obviously latins is not native to Indonesian. There was a time in indonesia that we used "cat2" as an equivalent of "cats" (plural). Still used in the unofficial texts around Indonesia tho. Eg: houses/rumah2, etc. Inthe other hand English got dificulties to inform somting that not yet specified, that is why we got, for example: "goal(s)" in a football match that not yet started. No idea is this a formal form in English or they just make it up.

[@exxelsetijadi5348]

@@Ryan-cb1ei it's quicker, but that also means you have to learn the plural form of almost every word that doesn't have a regular plural form making it harder to learn (i mean, that's why creoles and pidgins based on languages with many word forms make them regular / get rid of them entirely) you don't really have to use the repetition system to state the plural in indonesian anyways, since context or just saying the amount is already enough

[@babybbbb]

Ooooo I love this. Can’t wait to learn it!

[@cryscoxx]

Well explained!

[@Sphynx823]

Omg this is interesting. I worked for an Asian food place with an Indonesian boss and coworkers. This makes so much sense with the way they would speak in English now, knowing a bit more about the way their native language's grammar works.

[@rakhayudhistira]

"Singular: cat, plural: cats" "Oh just add an "s" then. Ok, pretty simple" "So what about goose?" "Gooses" "It's geese"

[@thedoomslayer5863]

Yeah to hell with that inconsistent shit lol

[@asterborealis1417]

Theres actually an interesting history behind that inconsistency

[@nasywanmuhammadyusuf7d920]

@@asterborealis1417 doesn't make up for the inconsistency though

[@lukecalos4442]

Biggest problem in english... Nah jk there are lots of worse problems😂

[@fiona3929]

"What about Moose?" "Meese?" "It is moose". "Try, mouse". "Mouses". "It's actually mice."

[@sorola]

I Appreciate you sharing us this information.

[@aryamalik1716]

In Indonesian: no noun gender, no cases/ noun declension, no verb conjugation, no tone, no verb changes based on tenses, plural forms are by repeating the noun, everything spelled as it written, subject/direct and indirect object/ possesive pronouns are the same, no definite article, no "to be" verb, it is usually adding another word rather than modifiying a word to make expression

[@zackbuildit88]

It’s like the closest any fully natural language gets to being toki pona

[@Voodka07]

Why cant every languages in the world work like this 🤣🤣🤣

[@heartmint7364]

@@Voodka07 remember that quote by bill gates that basically says "give complicated task to a lazy person and he will make it easy"? Well no nation have people as lazy as the indonesian. So there's that

[@sab-nm9di]

@@heartmint7364 lazy like generalizing a whole population, amirite?

[@aquqinn]

@@sab-nm9di Metaphor

[@danelfernandez6571]

Meanwhile in English, trying to figure out if it's their there or they're

[@jaminwaite3867]

Vane vein vain

[@NienawidzeTaStrone]

If you can’t differentiate there from the other two then your just a lost cause

[@fwoop4848]

It’s simple. They’re is a contraction of the words, “they are”. Their indicates possession, or can also be used to address non-binary people.

[@muhammaddaffaarvianda5050]

@@NienawidzeTaStrone true, but how would you differentiate their and they're when you hear them. English has way too many incosistent pronunciation

[@giorgiorp4676]

@@NienawidzeTaStrone you're

[@iamothemakhnovist20]

Orang Utan means forest man. Orang is man. And yes, orang orang means people. Indonesian is so funny and smart