Rustic but Fluent in English
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Villagers near Borobudur Temple speak English fluently. The government designates the village as a ‘Language Village.’
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During the last holiday season, Cahyatul Maqi had hardly taken a rest. As an official tourist guide at the Borobudur Temple in Magelang, Maqi was extremely busy attending to the foreign tourists visiting the place. This gracious, friendly and polite 30yearold man with his good command of English—albeit with his broad Javanese accent—pleased the tourists.
This inhabitant of Parakan hamlet, Ngargogondo village, Magelang, said he had been makin
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