Indonesian/Essential words and easy words

This might be a useful resource for teachers, or someone designing a course. The ideal way to introduce these words would be through examples; the very easy words can be introduced incidentally, without requesting the student to memorize it. This encourages the student, by giving them something they can discover and understand without it being spelled out.

Essential words
These are very common words - learn these early on and it will make understanding and learning easier.

Speakers of other languages
If the learner speaks:
 * Portuguese (or Spanish),
 * Dutch (or Flemish)
 * Sanskrit (or Hindi or Urdu)
 * Chinese (Mandarin? Hokkien?), or
 * Arabic

then they can find some words they might recognize at List of loan words in Indonesian.

If you do yoga and know some Sanskrit terms, you may recognize some words such as:
 * "gajah" meaning elephant
 * "surya" meaning sun