Indonesian

I'm about to start learning Indonesian. Would it be easy to land an interpreting job with this if I become fluent? I was thinking of trying the US Dept. of State.

You'd be better off with Arabic or Korean looking for a job in the US gov't.

the only two words in indonesian you ever need to know are "pertamax" and "wkwkwkwkwkwkwkwkwk" anyway

ketigax

out or 200 millions of people in Indonesia, there are hardly 1 from 174.164 people opening 4chan lol

>>5
well that is not true

Javanese would be better. Java is the only island in Indonesia that matters. People there only have ONE name. Sukarno and Suharto being the most famous.

>>7
Also surprisingly, way more people speak Javanese aka Basa Jawa than Bahasa Indonesian yet only the latter has "official" status in Indonesia.

Javanese is used in programming too

What is the point in learning Indonesian? Even a native Indonesian speaker wouldn't know Indonesian grammar.

Indofag here

>>8
not entirely true
Javanese have more native speakers than Indonesian, but almost everyone in Indonesia speaks Indonesian as a second language, even Javanese people. If I was to pick up a phone and dial a random Indonesian number, I can be 99% be sure that the person at the other end can understand Indonesian.

>>10
inorite? Most people here speaks shitty Indonesian, even most of the educated people. I felt ashamed of my countrymen when a foreigner speaks better Indonesian than the average Indonesian.

To OP, I don't know where Indonesian would be useful outside of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, East Timor, Brunei.

>>7
I disagree
learning Javanese would be less useful than Indonesian. Indonesian is technically a dialect of the Malay language. If you know Indonesian, it wouldn't be hard to learn other Malay dialects. The difference between Indonesian and Malaysian is mostly in pronunciation and accents. Written down they're the same language with slightly different vocabulary and minor spelling difference.

>>11
Javanese is used in Suriname too.

>>8
False
Even less people know Aksara Jawa than Bahasa Indonesia.
Study in Indonesia, and you would understand.

It's a shame to learn indonesian.

indonesia?

>>11
I agree, Javanese is only spoken by the Javanese people, on Java, while Bahasa Indonesia is spoken by nearly everyone in Indonesia, and understood by many in Malaysia.

Don't waste your time by learning Indonesian