🇮🇩 Indonesian
Bahasa Indonesia • Latin
Politeness & formality (sound respectful fast)
Formality is one of the fastest ways to sound natural in many languages.
What matters most
Politeness is vocabulary + titles (Bapak/Ibu) and indirect phrasing.
- When in doubt, choose the more polite form.
- Memorize one polite question pattern and reuse it everywhere.
Saya mau pergi.
I want to go.
Anda bisa bantu?
Can you help? (formal)
Kamu bisa bahasa Inggris?
Do you speak English? (informal)
Mini challenge
Say your ‘Do you speak…?’ sentence in the polite form, then in the casual form (if your language has both).
Mini‑quiz
Mini-quiz
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Which sentence matches “I want to go.”?