Hi everyone!
I've just registered myself here, and I can't tell you how long it's been since I'm looking through the Net for a forum where I could find some answers to my questions about the Indonesian and the Malay language, since I'm so far away from any native speakers - I'm from Brazil - or even anyone who knows the smallest bit about the language, so, before anything else, thank you very much for the initiative! Now, to the question:
I don't know if this is a silly question, but is there an automatic glottal stop before any word that begins with a vowel in Indonesian? What about Malay? Because, for some time now, I've been using the "Rosetta Stone" software to try and begin to learn Indonesian, but not only the final "k"s are realized that way, but also every single time a word begins in a vowel, there seems to be a glottal stop inserted there. Could this be only because the people there are pronouncing the words as clearly as possible, so that beginners like me could understand them?
Thank you very much in advance & sorry for all the rambling,
XVoX.