Once names are exchanged, two questions follow, in this order, more or less always.
Where are you from
Kamu dari mana? ‘Where are you from?’
Saya dari Prancis. ‘I’m from France.’
Dari is ‘from’ and mana is ‘where’. The pattern dari mana will also serve you for ‘where have you just come from’, which Indonesians ask constantly as a form of small talk.
Where do you live
The follow-up, and the more interesting one if you are in Indonesia.
Kamu tinggal di mana? ‘Where do you live?’
Saya tinggal di Bali. ‘I live in Bali.’
Di marks a place. Di sini ‘here’, di sana ‘there’, di Jakarta ‘in Jakarta’.
What do you do
Kamu kerja apa? ‘What work do you do?’
If you do not yet have the vocabulary for your job, two answers get you through:
Saya kerja di kantor. ‘I work in an office.’
Saya kerja online. ‘I work online.’
The second one is understood everywhere and covers most people who have moved to Bali.
The question you will be asked next
Sudah berapa lama di Indonesia? ‘How long have you been in Indonesia?’
Sudah tiga bulan. ‘Three months now.’
Note that sudah does the work of the English perfect tense. There is no verb change at all, which is the subject of a later lesson.