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A lesson in Bahasa Indonesia or the Indonesian language on the radio, which introduces   some Indonesian vocabulary and guides you to use them in a conversation. The segment of Let's Speak Indonesia is a cooperation of RRI World Service Voice Of Indonesia, with the Language Development Agency, the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. Today’s topic is "Alamat Rumah" or in English, “Home Address”.

Next is a conversation about "Alamat Rumah" or in English ‘Home Address’. As usual I’ll say every sentence slowly, twice, and you can follow after me. The conversation is betweenJoko, and Tony. They are in an area of Prambanan Temple. Tony wants to go to Joko’s house and he asks for Joko’s address. Let’s follow the conversation.

Conversation :

Tony         : Alamat rumahmu ?

Joko         : Garuda Nomor 5, Sleman

Tony         : Aku ke sana

Joko         : Tunggu, Ya .

After the conversation, now I’ll introduce some expressions related to the topic today. I’ll say each word slowly, and twice and you can follow after me.

To know someone’s address, you can say “di mana alamat rumahmu?” If you want to know the office address of your friend, you can say “di mana alamat kantormu?” . To answer the question you can say “Jalan Garuda Nomor 5, Sleman”. Or a complete answer “Alamat rumah saya di jalan Aster Nomor 2, Senayan, Jakarta”.

After the conversation, now I’ll introduce some expressions related to the topic today. I’ll say each word slowly, twice and you can follow after me.

In the dialog, you listened the word “rumahmu”.   “mu” is a possessive pronoun and shortening of the word “kamu”. The word “rumahmu” means “rumah kamu” or your house. Likewise the word “ku”. “ku” is a possessive and shortening of the word “aku”. “rumahku is the same with “rumah aku” or “rumah saya”, in English “my house”. To know more about it, you can learn the use of possessive pronoun in Bahasa Indonesia.

Listener before we end today’s Let’s Speak Bahasa Indonesia, for your listening clearly, let’s follow again the conversation.

Conversation : (recorded/master)

Tony                 :  Dimana alamat rumahmu ?

Joko                 :  Garuda Nomor 5, Sleman

Tony                 : Besok aku ke sana

Joko                 : tunggu, Ya .

As an exercise, please send us your voice recording in Indonesian language to our email address at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . There will be interesting prizes for the selected senders. Pleasedescribe a tourist spot in your country by mentioning the country’s name, the name of the tourism object, the location and the weather in that place. Please convey more information if any.

For example : 

Selamat pagi, negara saya Indonesia, memiliki tempat wisata Candi Prambanan yang terletak di kota Yogyakarta. Cuaca sekitar candi Prambanan panas. Gudeg adalah Makanan khas Yogyakarta.