3 New «BacaYuk!» Lessons

We have just finished creating three more lessons for «Baca Yuk!» . All three lessons are based on videos available on YouTube. In order to expose the Indonesian language learning community to a wide variety of texts, «Baca Yuk!» texts embrace a wide range of topics.

It is difficult finding YouTube videos that we deem suitable to become the base of a lesson and it took us many hours of viewing before we finally found three videos that met the following criteria:

1. They must be shorter than 5 minutes.
2. The language must be authentic.
3. It also must be simple enough, and not too fast, for B1 (intermediate) learners.
4. And the register should be either standard formal or colloquial Indonesian.
5. The video should have a cultural component

So, and these are the three videos that we selected:

1. An instructional video on how to set up a washing machine that, be surprised, does in fact have a cultural component.
2. A short report by Kompas TV North Sumatra on a group of kayakers on Lake Toba.
3. A propaganda video by the Indonesian Ministry for Education that aims to create an anti-corruption sentiment among young Indonesians.

All three videos come with a transcript, a translation, interactive activities focusing on comprehension, vocabulary and grammar. And each lesson has, of course, cultural and linguistic notes, and a vocabulary list.

With the three new lessons Baca Yuk has now a total of 29 lessons.