Level: B1-B2 (Intermediate)
Lessons: 29
Hours: 58
Format: Online, PDF
Lesson Plans: Some
Flashcards: Yes (built in)
Anki Flashcards: Yes
Author: Dr. U. Kozok
Year: 2009-2021
Price: US$ 60.00
«Baca, Yuk!», developed by Prof. U. Kozok, is an interactive eLearning course aimed at speakers with at least upper elementary, but preferably intermediate proficiency in the Indonesian language (upper A2 or B1 on the CEF proficiency scale). We recommend «Baca Yuk!» especially for learners who have completed «The Indonesian Way». The entire course of «Baca Yuk!» contains 29 lessons with more lessons to be added in the future. It takes approximately two to three hours to complete one lesson.
The lessons are mostly based on written texts, usually authentic texts from the Indonesian media, while one lesson is based on recordings of a dialogue.
In the «Baca, Yuk!» lessons you will read about, or listen to:
- accounts of Indonesian national heroes such as R.A. Kartini — the pioneer in the area of women’s rights for Indonesians.
- an unorthodox approach to exterminate illegal fishing in Indonesia’s waters
- recipes to cook Gado-Gado, Sate, Nasi Goreng, and Soto Mi, and essential ingredients for Indonesian cooking.
- the popular Javanese shadow theatre known as Wayang
- Indonesian universities
- the Javanese percussion orchestra Gamelan used as a therapeutic tool for prison inmates
- the tragic story of a lover who was ditched by his girlfriend for not voting in the local elections!
- use of excessive force by a police officer
- US car companies leaving the Indonesian market
- how to appropriately use active and passive verbs.
- what prenasalisation is and how it applies to meN- verbs.
After having completed the «Baca Yuk!» lessons, you will know…
- the difference between Passive Type 1 and Passive Type 2
- how to form causative meN-…-kan verbs.
- how to give (polite) orders using the imperative.
- why and how verbs and adjectives are reduplicated.
- what prenasalisation is and how it applies to meN- verbs.
- how to use the suffix -an.
- how to use the prefix peN- and the circumfix peN-…-an.
- the reflexive pronoun diri.
- the difference between satu, suatu and sesuatu.
- heaps of useful phrases.
- some of the differences between the formal and the informal register.
- and your vocabulary, particularly in the formal register, will have increased substantially.
This sounds like an awful lot of grammar, but don’t be afraid, it sounds more difficult than it is, and you will quickly see that the exercises are fun!