10 Most Popular Slang in Indonesia and Malaysia

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Hi everyone, Welcome back to our blog!!!

In this week's blog, we will talk about the most popular slang in Indonesia and Malaysia. Some of you might ask WHAT IS SLANG???

Well, slang is an informal way of expressing language that is commonly used among youngsters for chatting face to face and even online. Nowadays, slang is the most basic language that everyone should know, if not people will said you are out-dated!! 

Let's check it out !!!!

Before that, please click and watch the video below. We had conducted a slang challenge by our Malaysian and Indonesian group mates. In this challenge, each of them will guess the top 10 slang of Indonesia and Malaysia. If you feel that you are very strong in slang then you can guess while watching.You can comment in the blog below and let us know how many correct answers you got!!!
Don't cheat cheat, after read the blog only watch, ah!! HAHAHA 😃

Indonesia

1. Mager - Means Lazy
2. Bhay - Means Bye Bye
3. Biyasak - Biasa (in Bahasa Indonesia), means normal or usually
4. Cekidot- Short form of Check it out!!
5. Ciyus - Means Serious
6. Dikit - Short form of sedikit (in Bahasa Indonesia), means little or less.
7. Gaje - Short form of gak jelas (in Bahasa Indonesia), means not clear and usually use for people are very confusing
8. Cepu - Means someone who can't keep secret
9. Jayus - Means a joke but it is not funny
10. Woles - Means don’t worry or take it easy


Malaysia

1. Potong Steam- Means you have done something awesome, but someone does or says something to ruin the mood
2. Banana - Means Chinese who can only speak English
3. Aiseh - Means to express feeling of dissatisfaction
4. Kantoi - Means to get caught
5. Pokai - Means broke, but some people used it as bad word
6. Syok - Used when you’re so satisfied with something
7. Bek Cek - It’s used to express frustration
8. Abuden - Something like IF NOT? A sarcastic remark used for people who state the obvious
9. Gostan - Means reverse, normally used when people want to reverse the car,
10. Macha - Tamil slang for brother or friend


There might be some slang words which you have never heard before or you feel that it is not popular. But, just take it as you are learning a new slang lo 😄

Before we end our blog, we would like to announce that this will be also our last post about the comparison of Indonesia and Malaysia 😢

Thank you for supporting us throughout the past 7 weeks!!! We might be not professional bloggers, but we have tried our best. Hope everyone enjoys reading our blog.

For new readers, if you are interested to know more about Indonesia and Malaysia, you can check back to our previous posts which we had compared public transportation, instant noodle, breakfast,  cheap hang out places, celebration, murtabak, and also snacks.  Last but not least!!! THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! 

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