In Reply to: Learning Balinese (not Indonesian) posted by JoshP on Tuesday, 6. April 2010 at 20:53 Bali Time:
I once spoke to the late Rajah of Gianyar.
He told me that it would take a foreigner one year to become fluent in Bahasa Indonesia and five years to become fluent in Balinese.
Remember, Balinese has a separate vocabluary for each caste and region in Bali.