Learn Indonesian with Nightmares and Daydreams
Yes, Nightmares and Daydreams is a B2-level pick for Indonesian learners. This anthology from Joko Anwar mixes the ordinary and the strange, so episodes are grounded in everyday Jakarta life and language before they turn. That everyday grounding is great comprehensible input.
Key takeaways
- Nightmares and Daydreams is a B2-level pick for Indonesian, best suited to upper-intermediate learners.
- Best for learners who want everyday Jakarta Indonesian before each story takes its turn.
- It runs 1 season, 7 episodes, so its vocabulary recurs enough that finishing it builds real Indonesian listening.
- Against the 5 other Indonesian titles in our difficulty index, it is easier than 0 of them.
- Expect everyday Indonesian such as mimpi and takut.
- Watch it with Indonesian subtitles rather than your own language, which the research links to the biggest listening gain.
- Difficulty
- B2 (challenging)
- Best for
- upper-intermediate learners
- Format
- TV series
- Length
- 1 season, 7 episodes
- Original audio
- Indonesian
- Genre
- sci-fi, thriller, anthology
- Platform
- Netflix
- Relative difficulty
- Easier than 0 of 5 other Indonesian titles we rate
- In our index
- 1 of 6 Indonesian titles
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Indonesian words you'll hear in Nightmares and Daydreams
- mimpi
- dream
- takut
- afraid
- rumah
- house, home
- uang
- money
- tolong
- help, please
How to learn Indonesian with Nightmares and Daydreams
Install LingoBinge, set your language to Indonesian, and play Nightmares and Daydreams on Netflix. LingoBinge swaps a few subtitle words into Indonesian at your level, and you tap any word to translate, hear, and save it for spaced review.
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Nightmares and Daydreams suitable for learners?
- Yes for intermediate learners. The everyday settings give you natural Jakarta Indonesian. Use graded subtitles for the faster, tense scenes.