Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, is the number One University in the US for Indonesian studies. Many years ago, I started learning Indonesian, while in Ubud, with an Indonesian teacher, Professor Wayan Sarna (he was a Pricipal in a school in Kedewakan). Pak Sarna used the Cornell method,
Beginning Indonesian Through Self-Instruction, developed by Prof. John Wolff, which, by far, the best method. Not exactly a
bahasa pasar method, but excellent in the way it builds up the mastery of the language, its grammar (YES, there is some grammar in the Indonesian language, but simple compared to the French or German!).
Later on, I purchased the cassette tapes of the lectures (very expensive). Now they are available on CDs and DVDs (and MUCH cheaper), which are much more practical than the cassettes.
If you need more info.
BITSI on CD and DVD
Also available are some other instructions in
Formal Indonesian,
Indonesian Readings, and
Indonesian Conversation. With the latter, you may start to be understood in the streets of Jakarta...:icon_lol:
