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Voice of Indonesia presents Let’s Speak Indonesian, a program that introduces the Indonesian vocabulary and guides you to speak in the language. Mari Berbahasa Indonesia or Let’s Speak Indonesian is a joint initiative of Voice of Indonesia and the Language Development Agency of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture.  Today’s topic is about Kerja dari Rumah which means Work from Home.

Here is the conversation entitled Rapat Daring which means Online Meeting.Kevin dan Mela are working from home. They are talking about a plan to hold online meeting. Let’s read to the conversation.

After reading to the conversation, now I am going to introduce some vocabulary and expressions related to the topic of the day.

In the dialog, you listen to a sentence Kita akan rapat daring malam Kamis (2x) which means We will have online meeting on Wednesday evening. In the sentence, there is the time of the online meeting, namely malam Kamis (2x) which means Wednesday evening. Malam Kamis has the same meaning as Rabu malam (2x). To mention time to hold an activity in the evening, you may say malam Kamis (2x) which means Wednesday evening and Kamis malam (2x) which means Thursday evening.

Let’s read to the other examples of sentences which emphasize time to do something.

Mela           : Kita akan rapat daring malam Minggu (2x) which means We will have online meeting on Saturday evening

Kevin          : Malam Minggu? Baiklah (2x) which means Saturday evening? Alright

Mela           : Kita akan rapat daring Sabtu malam (2x) which means We will have online meeting on Saturday evening

Kevin          : Siap (2x) which means Ok, I’m ready.

In daily speech, the expression of malam Minggu is more often used than Sabtu malam to refer to Saturday evening. The word malam is mentioned before the name of the day. For example, malam Minggu, the time refers to the evening before that day. If the word malam is mentioned after the name of the day, for example Minggu malam, the time refers to the evening after today. So, malam Minggu is the same as Sabtu malam and Minggu malam is the same as malam Senin. You should really understand this context so you will not get wrong when having appointment in the evening.

That was “Let’s Speak Indonesian” for today. Hopefully, this edition can be useful for those of you who want to know more about Indonesian language.