Author: Abdul Majid

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780332829982

Excerpt from Malay Self-Taught by the Natural Method: With Phonetic Pronunciation This handbook is prepared more particularly for those English-speaking persons who wish to acquire the language by themselves with the least expenditure of time and labour. Whilst it is primarily intended to enable residents and travellers in Malaya to gain sufficient conversational power to carry them through the commonplaces of every day life, it is hoped that the grammatical notes, idiomatic expressions, and the introduction to the Malay characters will be found effectual in. Affording students with higher ambitions a sound foundation in their knowledge of the Malay language. Further, there are explanatory notes that indicate whether the grammatical rules given are for literary or colloquial Malay or both. By colloquial Malay is meant the language used by the natives in speaking with foreigners, especially Europeans. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.