Easy Indonesian brings the language and culture of Indonesia alive on the printed page, giving you all the basics you need to start speaking basic Indonesian immediately. The opening chapters introduce the essentials of pronunciation and sentence construction, showing you how to build simple Indonesian sentences. Each subsequent chapter gives a short, simple dialogue along with a new set of sentence patterns and a vocabulary list to help you gradually build up your knowledge and repertoire in communication for specific situations and activities—such as making new acquaintances, going shopping, traveling around, and much more. An extensive glossary at the back and a section on verb and noun forms are included to help you build your vocabulary and understand the different forms that Indonesian words take.