Biggest challenges for Indonesian speakers learning English

If you know what’s hard in advance, you can learn faster. These are the main things that slow down Indonesian speakers when they learn English.

  • Indonesian verbs never change for tense — time words carry all temporal meaning
  • Indonesian has no articles — 'a', 'an', and 'the' are new concepts
  • Indonesian reduplication (repeating words) has no English equivalent
  • English consonant clusters are uncommon in Indonesian syllable structure

Focus on one challenge at a time. Small daily practice beats long study sessions.

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