Indonesian 101 - B2

The closing volume of the Indonesian 101 series: twenty Assimil-style self-study units that take you from B1 to a confident B2 in Bahasa Indonesia. Every unit has two dialogues, one in the register of the ministry, the boardroom or the stage and one in the register of the lunch table, the phone call or the group chat, each with a word-for-word translation, grammar notes, vocabulary with pronunciation, four keyed exercises and a wave review of earlier units. At this level Indonesian is about choosing a register: baku spelling and word forms by KBBI and EYD, nominalisation and the effective sentence, the formal letter and the proposal, long sentences without the di mana calque, hedging and negotiation, opinion writing, legal and report language, the sambutan, criticism without offence, respectful talk across faiths, and the UKBI proficiency test, alongside Betawi, Javanese, Batak, Makassar and Papuan speech, online slang and acronyms, literature and the pantun. The story follows Sarah as she directs Program Jembatan in Jakarta: a budget deal over dinner, an MoU, the first student cohort flown to Australia, baby Kinan, the UKBI and the closing speech. Includes a B1 review, a B2 grammar and usage summary and a map of registers.