{"product_id":"everyday-balinese-your-guide-to-speaking-balinese-quickly-and-effortlessly-in-a-few-hours","title":"Everyday Balinese: Your Guide to Speaking Balinese Quickly and Effortlessly in a Few Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0804840458\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sutjaja, I Gusti Made\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a concise and user-friendly guide to the Balinese languageEveryday Balinese is targeted to anyone who wishes to learn to speak colloquial Balinese. There are 23 lessons in the book, each with a dialogue that centers around the Balinese daily life. These realistic beginner Balinese dialogues are a great way to learn Balinese as it is really spoken. The dialogue is presented twice: The first version representing the lumrah or common Balinese; the second the alus or refined Balinese. Both versions are exactly the same grammatically; the difference lies in the word choice. Lumrah or common words are used by participants of equal social status in a conversation, and it reflects intimacy and informality among the users. Alus or refined words are associated with distancing and formality among users in a conversation.Each lesson contains a section on the grammar an word function, as well as a list of words in both the lumrah and alus forms, followed by their Indonesian and English equivalents. Each lesson ends with a section on sentence construction-how to use the structures taught to make simple sentences.The book has a pronunciation guide at the front, and a section or greeting, ordinal numbers and a handy dictionary at the end. The dictionary is arranged alphabetically by Balinese, followed by their Indonesian and English equivalents.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49681070227696,"sku":"NEW0804840458","price":24.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/everyday-balinese-your-guide-to-speaking-balinese-quickly-and-effortlessly-in-a-few-hours","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}