Originally Posted by
Henwurst
If you're interested in getting to know any of the local languages I was very pleased with the Bahasa Indonesia class (almost the same language as Malay) offered at NUS.
Bahasa is the APAC equivalent of Spanish, and likely tied with it in being one of the easier languages to learn. Very popular among Aussies. If you learn Bahasa Indonesia, you can get by very well in Bahasa Malaya as well. Basically dialects of the same root language.