Built for foreigners who actually want to speak.
Your Indonesian learning hub — the fast way to learn Indonesian. No streaks-as-manipulation, no gamified guilt, no pay-to-win gems. Just carefully chosen vocabulary, themed lessons, grammar chapters, real dialogues — and a smart spaced-repetition engine that forgets less and remembers more.
Why Indonesian, and why this way
Bahasa Indonesia is one of the most learner-friendly languages on earth: phonetic spelling, no verb conjugation, no grammatical gender, no tones. What it DOES have is a rich affix system, a sharp formal/informal register, and cultural subtleties that textbooks gloss over.
Most apps either oversimplify Indonesian (making it feel babyish) or hand you a dictionary with no structure. Speak Indo takes the opposite approach: fewer words, better explanations, real stories, and teacher's notes that tell you when to use kami vs kita or why tidak and bukan are never interchangeable.
What's inside
- Curated vocabulary (A1 / A2 / B1), grouped by category with pronunciation, example sentence, and teacher's notes on the trickier ones.
- Themed lessons across three stages: Essentials → Daily Life → Travel. Each one has a cultural note written for foreigners specifically.
- Grammar chapters covering SVO, affixes (ber-, me-, di-, ter-, pe-, ke-an), classifiers, particles, reported speech, the yang particle, and more.
- Real dialogues (sawah visit, hotel booking, ojek ride, job interview…) with line-by-line audio playback.
- 5 quiz modes: multiple choice, type word, type sentence, 🔊 listening, 🎤 speaking (uses your browser's mic).
- Audio in and out via the Web Speech API — on macOS/iOS, this sounds great.
The philosophy
Languages aren't memorized, they're absorbed. That means two things: regular, small exposures beat occasional marathons, and seeing the same word in varied contexts beats repetition in isolation. Speak Indo's SRS scheduler does the first; the stories, lessons, and example sentences do the second.
Sign in once and your progress syncs across every device — phone, laptop, tablet — through a small backend (Supabase). The only things stored are what's needed to do that: email, display name, and the JSON of your learning state. No tracking, no analytics, no advertising. Full details in Privacy.
Who built this
A solo project by someone who moved to Indonesia and got tired of apps that felt like slot machines. If you've got ideas, bugs, or you'd just like to say hi — the help page has a contact link.