🇮🇩 Best Indonesian websites for beginners

A collaborative, Creative Commons-licensed corpus you can search for real usage of a word or download in bulk to build your own decks. It is the raw material behind Clozemaster and countless Anki decks rather than a study tool in itself. Sentences are contributed by volunteers, so quality and naturalness vary — prefer sentences from native contributors and cross-check anything surprising.

Over 100 language editions; the English edition alone has millions of entries covering hundreds of languages, with IPA, declension and conjugation tables, etymologies and usage notes that commercial apps usually paywall. The etymology sections are quietly one of the best vocabulary-retention tools available. Being crowd-sourced, coverage is uneven and rare entries can be wrong — cross-check anything unusual against a native-language dictionary.

A detailed staged roadmap for acquiring a language through massive comprehensible input — what to do at each stage, when to start output, how to mine sentences — with a free tracker, starter courses and an active Discord. The roadmap and community are free; vocabulary decks, advanced courses and coaching are paid. It is opinionated to the point of dogma about avoiding early output and translation, so take the framework and ignore the purity rules if they do not fit your goals.

A self-study course of dialogue lessons recorded with speakers from Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Bali and Surabaya, deliberately teaching the colloquial Indonesian people actually use rather than the formal register textbooks lead with. The $97 lifetime price with no subscription is unusual and fair if you finish it. Be aware that most of the glowing reviews online come from sites affiliated with the product, and there is little free sample material, so judge it from the demo lessons before paying.