Into Indonesian 2: Up the Hill: A graded reader for English speakers. First month in Bandung. Ten chapters, one story, no fluency promise.

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Claire Brennan, thirty-three, from Boston, is in her first month in Bandung with a two-year-old voice note from her older sister Helen: the house with the yellow gate, Ciumbuleuit. The kedai gate is the wrong yellow. This book is buses, rain, a slow walk up, a street that fits, and a gate that is locked.Into Indonesian 2: Up the Hill is a graded reader, not a phrasebook and not a class. Ten chapters, one continuous story. New words come from a pedagogical frequency list and are bolded on first use. Each chapter is a little harder than the last. Chapter 1 is about fifty percent Indonesian. Chapter 10 is about sixty. Indonesian verbs do not conjugate. The grammar notes cover karena / jadi, harus / boleh / perlu, time words, me- verbs as whole words, adjectives without to be, mau vs ingin, se- classifiers, reduplication, short yang clauses, and kamu / Anda.Each chapter has the same shape: a short briefing, the story, a new-words table with a phonetic crutch (no tones: Indonesian has none), one grammar move, six lines to say out loud, five comprehension questions, and a look-back.This book will not make you fluent. When you finish, you can follow this month of story and say the chapter lines. Then you open Book 3. It is for English speakers starting Indonesian, or moving from a phrasebook into actual pages.