Learning Goals

    Being a foreigner is indeed hard, but new friends are made instantly when you speak to them in their language. It also available in Indonesia. It means a highly respected white values them enough to bother learning for an Indonesian, what many Indonesians truly believe is a backward, provincial, idiotic language. Even more enamoring to the majority – 45% of Indonesians – and guaranteed to get you astonished faces and gasps you wish you could capture on film is speaking some polite Javanese – or Kromo Inggil.
    Many wrongly claim Javanese is extinct or dying. Actually the complete opposite is true that many young people keen to learn. Sri Gusti Sultan Hamengkubuwana IX has vigorously re-introduced this ancient and beautiful language into his Kingdom – the minor Principalities following suit.
    In order to get many advantages of Javanese Language either for Indonesian – especially Javanese – or foreigner who wants to learn Javanese, we make this simple course for everyone. We formulate several goals of this course which can be useful for the reader:

• To conserve Javanese language essentials and its existence
• To introduce Javanese Language, especially for people abroad who will know more about Javanese Language
• To increase not only the reader’s proficiency of grammatical and vocabulary, but also their reading ability
• To make the advanced learner and their interlocutors interact easily in Javanese Language either use Ngoko or Krama after learn this brief course
• To give a knowledge about vocabulary including verb, adverb, and adjective of Javanese Language
• To give a simple explanation how to use Javanese Language when people are going to talk to someone in different age level
• To give some exercises – based on age, level of education, expertise in using Javanese – to the reader in order to test their prosperity after learn this course