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07-28-17 19:37 #1433
Posts: 145Originally Posted by Smoothy
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07-27-17 22:04 #1432
Posts: 3497Originally Posted by RyoSaeba [View Original Post]
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07-27-17 20:46 #1431
Posts: 145Nice to meet you?
Hello Indonesian experts,
I'll be visiting Bali again next week after a long long time, and in the process of setting myself up with the chance to get to know Indo/Balinese culture better, I struck a few Tinder dates with girls who are not prostitutes (at least according to my p4p-sense and/or what they say about themselves).
So my question is: in order to present yourself as friendly yet proper, what's the best way to greet a "regular" Indonesian girl who you're meeting for the first time in a public place?
Kiss on the cheek, handshake, respectful distance, somersaults?
If it matters, I'm a younger looking 39 years old and they're in the 24 to 32 age range.
You can count on me posting a full report of my experiences,
thank you,
Ryo.
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06-11-17 06:13 #1430
Posts: 354Telkomel App
Not sure if this will help the OP, but Telkomei has a pretty good app that will allow you to manage everything from offshore. You need to be in country to activate the app, but once that's done you can add credit with a credit card, buy internet package, buy SMS package, Phone package. You can obviously check your balance etc.
Works great. I generally confirm my internet balance is still active, if not buy a package, buy an SMS package and talk package just before boarding my inbound flight. This way I can put the SIM card in and even before the plane has finished its taxi at the Jakarta airport I'm texting my girls and downloading emails.
It pisses me off that I can't buy a multi-day SMS package, they all seem to expire at midnight. Then if I send a couple without the package, it costs a ridiculous amount. Any solution to that?
Originally Posted by LAGuy5 [View Original Post]
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06-11-17 01:29 #1429
Posts: 616Originally Posted by Kodja [View Original Post]
If I'm outside of Indonesia, I sometimes have a friend add the time, which can be done using a mobile phone and the phone number of the phone to be topped up. On the other hand, a google search yielded this company which seems to provide an alternate method of topping up, although I can't vouch for their services as I have never used them. https://teleponindonesia.com/buy/mob...or%20Telkomsel.
Good luck and let us know if you get this worked out.
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06-11-17 00:27 #1428
Posts: 673Originally Posted by Kodja [View Original Post]
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05-06-17 05:14 #1427
Posts: 1077Learning Bahasa Indonesia by Teleconferencing With a Tutor.
I am curious if anybody can give me direction to any ONLINE lessons in Bahasa Indonesia, where you videoconference with a tutor. I know such programs are abundant when it comes to Spanish language tutoring. And cheap too. But, I am having no luck in finding anything in Bahasa Indonesia.
Why do I want to learn Bahasa Indonesia? Well, it isn't because I am about to go the Indonesia. It looks like a change of job is around the corner and that will put it off for at least a year. But, that give me time to learn. But, to the point, Bahasa Indonesia is supposedly one of the easiest languages to learn. Hence, if it is easy to learn, then why not? I tried to learn some Thai before I visited Thailand, but that was a challenge. Thankfully, Bahasa Indonesia uses the Latin alphabet, as well as ample cognates of Western words. Or uses Western words outright. There is no gender, no irregular verbs, no conjugation and pronunciation is not precise because Indonesians from different regions will pronounce words a bit differently.
Compare that to Hungarian, where slight pronunciation of a word will result in nobody understanding what you are saying. No room for error with Hungarian, as a point of reference. I was married to a Hungarian woman for 13 years, and all I learned was the profanities, as Hungarians are the most profane people on the planet (and proud of it). And they can curse using their 14 vowels for minutes on end and never use the same profanity twice.
At someone's suggestion, I did find the book "Making Out in Hungarian" and it is pretty cool, as you tells you practical phrases like "Aku Klimaks" (I'm coming) or what to say when you are in a street fight with a local. But, I think I need to have some active conversations with a native speaker to get a handle on it.
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05-05-17 10:16 #1426
Posts: 184Pre-paid SIM card
I am visiting Jakarta in two months and have a SIM card I bought in Bali in March. It has credit on it now but how can I keep it active for when I arrive in July? I want to step off the plane and start calling straight away. Any help appreciated.
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04-29-17 09:55 #1425
Posts: 184Originally Posted by UsPete [View Original Post]
I know so many "Jakartans" that only speak Bahasa Indonesia and only a little of their parents native tongue.
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04-29-17 01:33 #1424
Posts: 118Originally Posted by Stykler [View Original Post]
For the majority of Indonesians Bahasa Indonesia is not their native tongue. It is rare to meet an Indonesian who is not fluent in her or his native tongue as well as the national language.
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04-29-17 00:37 #1423
Posts: 673Originally Posted by UsPete [View Original Post]
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04-29-17 00:34 #1422
Posts: 673Originally Posted by OffshoreSwell [View Original Post]
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04-28-17 23:18 #1421
Posts: 118Originally Posted by OffshoreSwell [View Original Post]
So the girl is providing a modern friendship greeting without touching lips! AbFab phrases are a great example on how the underground bencong community in Indonesia which worship UK shows like AbFab, Little Britain and Graham Norton have introduced words and phrases into the Indonesian lexicon or what is termed "gaul".
Now if you are still following this, this is where fellow mongers will face problems learning Indonesian. As we spend all our time with indo. Girls and have little interest in speaking to indo. Men we start mirroring and replicating how girls speak. During the '90's whenever I spoke to anyone on a land line in Indonesian for the first time, they would guess I was a Betawi gay. This made me "genit" or what roughly translates as coquettish.
The youtuber Sasha Stevenson makes the same mistake, when she uses Indonesian, she uses many phrases or slang commonly only used by men which makes her come across as a bit of a tomboy.
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04-28-17 15:55 #1420
Posts: 490Originally Posted by Stykler [View Original Post]
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04-28-17 12:52 #1419
Posts: 673Originally Posted by Menteng [View Original Post]
I feel quite stupid asking the question actually, but I do wonder what the term means. I think it is affectionate??