Easy Indonesian

Fantastic book. This is the best one I've found thus far for Indonesian. It gets straight to the point with useful vocabulary and grammar points, as well as the occasional culture point. I doubt I'll need another book to explain the questions that pop up as I learn Indonesian. Just pair this with a repetition system and you'll be good to go.

Es el mejor libro no solo de indonesio, pero tambien sirve para cualquier idioma. Tiene un sistema que puedes usar para aprender cualquier idioma. Parece con el de Raymond Murphy de ingles pero mejor. El mejor libro que he comprado.

The book is really good and well planned, brings lots of cultural tips and everything else readers have mentioned in other feedbacks here. However, as a language teacher, I could'nt avoid noticing that each lesson may bring dozens of new words and it may be a bit tricky for a self-taught student to deal with that. It would have been better if the book had more lessons or units addressing specific topics (like "introducing yourself", "at the supermarket", "family" etc.) and presenting around 10 new words per lesson. But, if your can deal with that, you'll probably enjoy it.

I love it.

In terms of the balance between cultural notes, grammar explanations and vocab build, with useful dictionaries at the back, this book beats in my opinion the other teach yourself books for Indonesian. This person really shows TY and Colloquial the proper way to do it. Could be improved with an audio section, of course. It's not really a phrasebook and dictionary but an actual language course and at basic level going up to about 1200 words. It sells itself short by saying it is a Phrasebook and it oversells itself by saying you will speak Indonesian effortlessly in a few hours as clearly it takes more than a few hours to process a 200 page language course, but if one overlooks these descriptive flaws it is a good book and also the illustrations are helpful and interesting. They are all in black and white and the book does betray signs of having been written more than 20 years ago, but these are minor quibbles.