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Gramatika dalam Bahasa Hongaria — Pengenalan dan Nomina

Catatan: Berhubung postingan ini bagi sebagian orang memabukkan, maka saya akan tulis dengan bahasa se-santai-santainya, tidak memakai bahasa formal seperti postingan sebelumnya, okeh?

Jadi begini..

Beberapa bulan saya sempat mencoba belajar(kembali) bahasa Hongaria, kenapa? kok tertarik? Ya, karena kebiasaan saya yang tertarik dengan bahasa yang cukup “aneh” bagi sebagian orang di Indonesia.

Dan kesimpulan saya setelah belajar bahasa hongaria(magyar) adalah,

Lanjutkan membaca Gramatika dalam Bahasa Hongaria — Pengenalan dan Nomina

Do you speak bahasa?

Excuse me, do you speak bahasa?

Humm.. I often hear non-indonesians refer to indonesian language as bahasa. “do you speak bahasa?” foreigners in Indonesia ask each other, in Russia and some europe country, I found out that some indonesian refer their own language as bahasa as well. And very sadly, some indonesian also do the same thing! :( Come on, you are the expert there, you should know so well that’s it’s wrong ;)

Oke, now I tell you this, In english bahasa is translated as “language”(refers to Indonesian-English dictionary by John M Echols 3rd edition p.41)

for example, I speak bahasa inggris(English), bahasa indonesia(Indonesian), and bahasa rusia(Russian). All languages are bahasa, everybody in the world speak bahasa, of course their own bahasa.

The word bahasa doesn’t mean anything but “language“. If you want to use Indonesian word for “Indonesian”(language) then use the complete term “Bahasa Indonesia

So, asking

“Do you speak Indonesian?”

is much much better than

“Do you speak bahasa

:D