It has almost been a year since I first come to this Toba-Samosir area, to serve as a lecturer of a programming course in a local polytechnic. However, I am still unable to engage even a very basic conversation in Toba Batak language. For the purpose of Toba Batak Corpus initiatives I am involved in, I bought some introductory materials for learning Batak. As it is surprisingly difficult to find this kind of material on the Internet (and even in book stores!), I decided to share what I have learned here in my blog. Even though I will try to write everything as thoroughly as possible, this series is not a replacement for a good teacher or self-study book.

Without further ado, some basic vocabularies:

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