Well, I tried to makes fun of you missing the million unit there, hah.
And to be honest there’s virtually no one actually speak formal Indonesian in daily life beside media/government stuff. Excluding the capital most city will speak their regional language especially older folks.
It’s always funny hearing newly learned non-native because the grammar is so easy and consistent but they sound like a rigid ancient soap drama to my ear.
300 didn’t seem like much tbh. Source: am Indonesian, or as we called it Komodos
Well, when you compare it to German, Japanese. Indonesian can have a lot of speakers when you’re comparing raw quantity of speakers.
Edit: IIRC German have around 200 million speakers.
Well, I tried to makes fun of you missing the million unit there, hah.
And to be honest there’s virtually no one actually speak formal Indonesian in daily life beside media/government stuff. Excluding the capital most city will speak their regional language especially older folks.
It’s always funny hearing newly learned non-native because the grammar is so easy and consistent but they sound like a rigid ancient soap drama to my ear.