Complete Malay Beginner to Intermediate Book and Audio Course

Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new language with Teach Yourself

Christopher Byrnes, Eva Nyimas, Chistopher Byrnes, Tam Lye Suan

• Publisher: Teach Yourself
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781444101997
• eBook ISBN: 9781444129960
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Easy-to-follow building blocks to give you a clear understanding.USEFUL VOCABULARY
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Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE
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Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

1

Welcome to Singapore

In this unit you will learn how to:

• greet people

• introduce yourself and others

• say where you come from

PART ONE

Dialogue

CD1, TR 4

Selamat tengah hari!
Nama saya Stan Davies.
Saya berasal dari Amérika.

Selamat tengah hari!
Nama saya Sue-Ann.
Saya berasal dari Singapura.

Hélo!
Saya Tom.
Saya dari England.

Hélo!
Saya Serena.
Saya dari Malaysia.

Insight

Note that England is pronounced as it is in English.

QUICK VOCAB

selamat tengah hari good day, good afternoon

nama name

nama saya my name is

berasal to be from

saya berasal dari I am from

Amérika America

Singapura Singapore

hélo hello

saya I am

dari from

saya dari I am from

How the language works 1

1 Hélo is a multipurpose greeting just like Hello in English. In addition, Malay has four greetings for the specific time of day: Selamat pagi in the morning, selamat tengah hari which would correspond to good day in older style English, selamat petang which is used between 2 and 6 p.m. and selamat malam which is used throughout the evening and night. So we could say that the Malay greetings roughly correspond to the English in the following way:

selamat pagi	good morning
selamat tengah hari	good afternoon
selamat petang	good evening
selamat malam	good evening, good night

Insight

Tengah means middle or centre, and hari means day, which makes Selamat tengah hari an appropriate greeting for the middle of the day.

2 You do not need to use words for am, are, is in Malay. So saya can mean both I and I am. Compare the following sentences in English and Malay:

I am Tom.	I am from England.
Saya Tom.	Saya dari England.

Exercise 1

See if you can make these sentences. The names of the countries can be left as they are.

a I am John. I am from England.

b I am Kylie. I am from Australia.

c I am Fatimah. I am from Malaysia.

3 To give your name or introduce yourself in Malay you can use nama saya + your name or you can just use saya … I am … Saya is far more natural and consequently, more frequently used, especially in the spoken language, than nama saya. We do the same in English. Consider how much more likely you are to say I am John, for example, rather than My name is John.

Understanding Malay

CD1, TR 5

Exercise 2

First familiarize yourself with the new vocabulary.

QUICK VOCAB

usahawan businessman

mahasiswa student (at college or university)

pelancong tourist

penari dancer

joget a traditional dance

Insight

You’ll also hear the word seorang in the listening exercise, which means a. It is a feature of Malay we will be dealing with later in the course.

If you are not using the recording turn to the transcript at the back of the book and treat this as a reading exercis...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Credits
• Meet the authors
• Only got a minute?
• Only got ten minutes?
• Introduction
• Pronunciation guide
• 1 Welcome to Singapore
• 2 Arrivals
• 3 Tell me more about yourself
• 4 At work and at school
• 5 Meet the family
• 6 Sightseeing
• 7 Invitations
• 8 Directions
• 9 Changing money
• 10 Getting around
• 11 Checking in
• 12 Bargain hunting
• 13 Eating out
• 14 At the supermarket
• 15 Hobbies and leisure
• 16 At the doctor’s
• Taking it further
• Key to the exercises
• Listening transcripts
• Malay-English glossary
• English-Malay glossary