Indo
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Surf Spots Rote Island
Accommodations
Home Stay??
Rote Island Lodge. ~ $50 per person per night. Rote Island Lodge Tunggoen Rote Nusa Tenggara Indonesia Adrian and Kate roteislandlodge@gmail.com
Nemberala Beach Resort. Ron's recommendation. $190 per person per night.
Anugerah Beach Hotel -- Anugerah Surf Camp Jln. Nemberala-Ba'a, Kec. Rote Barat, Kab. Rote Ndao NTT - Indonesia Phone/Mobile: 62 (0)85239162645 / 62 (0)8113823441
Email: anugerah.nemberala@gmail.com
anugerah_rote@yahoo.com
Travel
Cali - Bali Los Angeles (LAX) to Denpasar Bali (DPS)Sep 04, 2013, 03:45 PM
Total travel time: 26hrs 50mins
Flight SQ11
Bali - Kupang, West Timor, East Nusa Tenggara. Airepland.
Depart Fri, Sep 6 DPS to KOE – nonstop 1h 45m $197 KAYAK
Garuda Indonesia – Flight 438 0h 45m
Take-off Fri 11:05a DPS Denpasar, Indonesia
Landing Fri 12:50p KOE Kupang, East Timor
Check Flights
Kupang -- Baa, Rote Island, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Speed Boat. 8:30 am two hours
Baa -- Nemberla. Car. 90 minutes.
Area Map
Language
Bahasa Indonesia is the official language and lingua franca of Indonesia, and also widely spoken in East Timor. With over 230 million speakers, it is the fourth most spoken language in the world.
Indonesian is closely related to Malay, and speakers of both languages can generally understand each other. The main differences are in the loan words: Indonesian has been influenced by Dutch, while Malay has been influenced by English. Both have been influenced by Sanskrit, Arabic and Javanese.
Indonesian word order is subject-verb-object, like English. In general, there are no plurals, grammatical gender, or verb conjugation for person, number or tense, all of which are expressed with adverbs or tense indicators: saya makan, "I eat" (now), saya sudah makan, "I already eat" = "I ate".
When plurals are in use, they're often simply a repetition of the singular form, connected by a dash (or, in shortened informal Indonesian, indicated with a "2" at the end). For example, "mobil-mobil" (cars) is simply the plural form of "mobil" (car). One can also choose to use other words, especially in informal situations, such as "banyak" (many) instead: "banyak mobil". The use of singular form doesn't guarantee a single object; the phrase "Ada mobil di depan" (There is; car; in; front) may mean 1 or more cars. Some words don't exhibit plural forms; to be safe, simply use the singular form. The repetitive plural form is most often found in writing.
Wikipedia Page with Language Basics -- Indonesian Phrasebook
A couple short intro lessons from Learning Indonesian
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