Speak Malay!


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This guide provides beginners who already know a little colloquial Malay with a properly graded course in simple spoken Malay to improve their grasp of the language. In 60 lessons, you learn the essential sentence structures of spoken Malay, using a vocabulary of about 1,000 words. Sentences in the first section of each lesson use these structures repeatedly so that you assimilate the grammar of the language almost unconsciously. Sixty conversations, based on a wide variety of everyday situations, ensure you acquire a fluency and confidence in the language. With an answer key for numerous exercises, this book is suitable both for self-study and in the classroom.




Learn to Speak Malay


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Midianpress learn to speak Malay/ Bahasa Melayu/ Malaysian takes the student from beginner and teaches them fast and effectively. All lessons are explained in simple plain English so as not to confuse the student with complex English grammar. 90 pages in 7 Units. Topics start with the basic grammar then continue on to include: Introductions Professions Checking into hotels Ordering food Shopping Who, what, where, how, when Directions To like, love Descriptions Directions Whether To be Comparisons To know Over 80 practical exercises. Grammar is explained in detailed sections covering most topics that vary from English, including Conjugation of verbs including ber-, mem-, men-, meng-, meny-, me-, Other topics include the use of -pun, ke..........an, pe-, pem-, -kan, Ter-,-lah, -kah and more. The present tense The past tenses Future tense Also includes an extensive verb section




Speak Malay


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The Malays


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Just who are ‘the Malays’? This provocative study posesthe question and considers how and why the answers have changedover time, and from one region to another. Anthony Milner developsa sustained argument about ethnicity and identity in an historical,‘Malay’ context. The Malays is a comprehensiveexamination of the origins and development of Malay identity,ethnicity, and consciousness over the past five centuries. Covers the political, economic, and cultural development of theMalays Explores the Malay presence in Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia,Thailand, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and South Africa, as well as themodern Malay show-state of Malaysia Offers diplomatic speculation about ways Malay ethnicity willdevelop and be challenged in the future




Colloquial Malay


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Totally revised new edition Focuses on the everyday language Practices all four skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing Clear grammar points Exercises and revision lessons to check progress




Singapore Studies


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This edition brings up to date a decade of research work developments of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science, National University of Singapore, since the first volume was published in 1985. The state of the respective disciplines covered are reviewed in terms of notable theoretical and conceptual developments, major benchmarks during the past decade, and research lacunae that need to be addressed, as well as their substantive developments and contributions in the Singapore context and possible future directions, resulting in a collection of essays that places the Faculty's studies in an international comparative framework.




BLS Report


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BLS Report


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Reading the Malay World


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This collection of essays is the culmination of a symposium on the representation of Malays and Malay culture in Singaporean and Malaysian literature in English held in Universiti Putra Malaysia.