- ajar - teach (root)
- belajar - to learn (ber- + ajar)
- pengajar - instructor (peng- + ajar)
- mengajar - to teach (meng- + ajar)
- ajarkan - teach it (ajar + -kan)
- diajar - to be taught (di- + ajar)
- pelajar - student (pel- + ajar)
- pembelajaran - learning (pem- + belajar + -an)
- pengajaran - teaching (peng- + ajar + -an)
- mengajarkan - to teach (something) (meng- + ajar + -kan)
- pelajaran - lesson (pel- + ajar + -an)
Learn Malay the way Malay is built.
Roots grow into families: ajar becomes belajar, mengajar, pelajar. LexaFluent teaches the family together, so each word reinforces the rest.
Practice built around word families
Try them yourself: flip a card, fill a blank, build a word, and map a whole family. Every example has audio, so you build reading and listening together.
A few roots go a long way
The same handful of affixes builds word after word, so a few roots carry whole passages.
Same ending, four different roots. One pattern, four new words.
Based on vocabulary-coverage research (Nation; Hu and Nation, 2000).
Know about ~2,000 words and you can follow roughly 85% of what you read. Enough to follow most everyday conversations.
Learn one root and its affixes, and the rest of the family comes almost free. That's the whole method.
About 15 minutes.Never a backlog.
Pick how long you want to study each day. Our engine plans each session around your word families, starting with what needs fixing, then your reviews, then a few new words, and stopping when your time is up. Miss a few days? You come back to the same calm 15 minutes, never a pile of hundreds of cards.
- Fix mistakesfirst
- Reviewnext
- A little newif there is room
One word. Every meaning it carries.
Most apps teach one meaning per word and stop there. But jalan can be a road, a way to do something, to walk, even the plot of a story. LexaFluent opens up each meaning when you're ready, so you learn the whole word, not just a piece of it.
Unlocked as you master the word, not all at once.
Look-alikes, pulled apart before they blur.
Malay builds many words from the same few affixes, so look-alikes are everywhere. When two start to blur, like pelajar (student) and pengajar (teacher), our engine spots it and drills them side by side, so they stay apart in your memory.
Dia seorang Correct: pengajar. yang rajin.
“She is a diligent student.”
Five words, or one root
These five Malay words are one family. A deck of cards cannot tell you that.
- ajarteach
- belajarto learn
- mengajarto teach
- pelajara student
- pengajarana lesson
Five separate things to memorize, and nothing carried over to the sixth.
- belajarto learnbel- + ajar
- mengajarto teachmeng- + ajar
- pelajara studentpel- + ajar
- pengajarana lessonpeng- + ajar + -an
One root, plus affixes that keep working on the hundreds of words after it.
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Built by a Malay teacher and a fellow learner
Adlan Shafi
Co-founder & Malay teacher
Adlan is from Malaysia and has taught Malay for five years, with a background in psychology. He has tried a lot of methods and apps, noticed where they fall short, and shaped LexaFluent around what actually helps people learn.
Aleksandr Novikov
Co-founder & Engineer
Aleksandr is a programmer who loves languages, five so far, with plenty of travel in between. After a year living in Malaysia, he tried every Malay-learning tool he could find. None taught it the way he wanted to learn, so he built his own.
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