Complete Malay with Two Audio CDs

Overview

It's easy to teach yourself Malay!

Complete Malay with Two Audio CDs: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Malay, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Malay with confidence.

Within each of the thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues.You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society.

The accompanying audio CDs include audio exercises--performed by native speakers--that reinforce communicative skills.

Table of contents

Introduction and pronunciation/Welcome to Malaysia – greetings/introductions/origins/At the airport – yes/no questions/possession/Getting to know you – personal information/nationalities and languages/basic questions/Working and studying – talking about jobs and studies/ capabilities/Family and home – talking about family members/location/numbers/Tourist information – Asking for information/existence and location/more numbers/telling the time/ days of the week/Invitations – making, accepting and declining invitations/ reasons / months/Asking the way – Asking for and understanding directions/location/Changing money – Higher numbers/ expressing distance, height and weight/Transport – buying tickets/ getting around/time expressions/Checking in – Getting accommodation/asking about services/saying what you usually do/Clothes/Souvenir shopping – Expressing size, colour, and what things are made of/Eating out – How to order food from street vendors and in restaurants/At the supermarket – Shopping for food/understanding a recipe/Hobbies and free time – Expressing likes, dislikes/saying how long you have been doing something/ hobbies and sports/At the doctor’s – Body words/ saying how you feel/ talking about illnesses/A phone call – What to say on the phone/ talking about the weather/ a look at very informal Malay and slang/Taking it further/Index

Biographical note

Christopher Byrnes is an experienced author and teacher of various languages, including EFL.

Tam Lye Suan is a Straits-born Malay speaker, with 25 years’ writing, editorial and translating experience.

Eva Nyimas is a native of Sumatera, Java, and can speak several native Indonesian languages as well as standard Indonesian, Malay and English. She has taught English and Indonesian to children and to adults and is dedicated to the spread of Indonesian language and culture throughout the world.