How do you learn Malay? It's not as difficult as Chinese, which has different tones, but some words are complicated and the grammar structure and word order are different.
Answer
1 INSTANT
Start by encouraging yourself by learning words which are the same, I'll call them the INSTANT recognition words.
2 ANAGRAMS
Others can be remembered by creating ANAGRAMS, which are rearrangements of some of the letters to crete part of the word or a word of similar meaning.
Tips
INSTANTLY RECOGNIZED WORDS
MALAY - ENGLISH
b a s - bus
k a r i - curry
t e k s i - taxi/ drivers
ENGLISH MALAY
bus - b a s
curry - k a r i
taxi /drivers - t e k s i
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