Teach Yourself: Malay + CD Pack / Christopher Byrnes, Tam Lye Suan

This is a complete course in reading and writing, speaking and understanding Malay. It uses a book/CD combination and will be perfect for you if you are a complete beginner or if you have some knowledge of the language which you need to brush up. Malay is spoken in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and parts of Thailand. Teach Yourself Malay is a self-access course for the independent adult learner of Malay as a foreign language. Lively dialogues (recorded by Malay speakers on the accompanying double CD) in authentic Malay introduce the language, which is then explained in simple English, as it is not assumed that the student has learned a foreign language before. Exercises - written, audio, and pictorial - are used to reinforce learning. At the end of the book there are a 'taking it further' section, a key to the exercises and Malay-English and English-Malay vocabulary lists.