"Fun With Reading": Another Effort to Encourage Indonesian Parents to Raise Kids in Indonesian
When making t his video of directly translating a German book to Indonesian for Joseph's story time, I was actually thinking about recording our story time on a regular basis. However we moved to Australia not long after and with all the packing-relocating-unpacking and adjustment in Sydney, this thing slipped off my mind.
Until I found a message from Ake, one of my best friends who now lives in California. She asked me to upload more videos of me interacting in the Indonesian language with my children, especially the part where I teach Indonesian nursery rhymes. (Ake and I used to run the Kelompok Bermusik dan Berkarya (Music and Art Group), when we were still living in Chicago)
So I recorded our regular story time today.
For now, I will focus on reading only and plan to make them in several series, consist of 5 videos each.
This project is called Membaca Riang Gembira (Fun with Reading)
During my 8 years of raising multilingual children in 4 countries, I found that mainstream Indonesian parents are demotivated when it comes to book reading.
I hope the videos will encourage the can-do-attitude of my fellow Indonesians. If the parents happen to have some Indonesian books around, I imagine they would then start to read more regularly to their kids after watching our videos. If they don't or if story time is not part of their routine, they could simply watch our videos together with their kids.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Until I found a message from Ake, one of my best friends who now lives in California. She asked me to upload more videos of me interacting in the Indonesian language with my children, especially the part where I teach Indonesian nursery rhymes. (Ake and I used to run the Kelompok Bermusik dan Berkarya (Music and Art Group), when we were still living in Chicago)
So I recorded our regular story time today.
Click to viewFor now, I will focus on reading only and plan to make them in several series, consist of 5 videos each.
This project is called Membaca Riang Gembira (Fun with Reading)
During my 8 years of raising multilingual children in 4 countries, I found that mainstream Indonesian parents are demotivated when it comes to book reading.
I hope the videos will encourage the can-do-attitude of my fellow Indonesians. If the parents happen to have some Indonesian books around, I imagine they would then start to read more regularly to their kids after watching our videos. If they don't or if story time is not part of their routine, they could simply watch our videos together with their kids.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.