1. Malaysia
By Courtney Oswald

2. se-lah-maht te-ngah-hah-ree
Selamat tengahari
(good day in Malay)
Pronounced:
se-lah-maht te-ngah-hah-ree

3. Cultural Literacy
This is my digital story on my upcoming study abroad trip to Malaysia. I will be spending six weeks in Malaysia student teaching and this is a presentation I would want to show to my students to inform them about another culture and to show them what their teacher is doing.

4. More Cultural Literacy
Part of being culturally literate is being familiar with popular things in the culture. I also think that being culturally literate is knowing the names for popular places, or necessities. Therefore, I have included the Malay word for each of the groups of pictures I have included.

5. Grammar of Malay
The structure of a Malay sentence is the same as English, subject-verb-object
to make a noun plural in Malay, you double the noun, so for example:
Those books: buku buku itu
Book: buku

6. Map of Malaysia
The star is where I’m going to be living this summer

7. Malaysia’s Flag

8. Students in a secondary school
All students wear school uniforms
The colors change depending on the age of the student

9. Malaysian Holidays Chinese new year: Deepavali: Hari Kebangsaan:
A significant portion of the Malaysian population is Chinese, so the Chinese new year is celebrated here as well.
Deepavali:
A Hindu celebration of the “festival of lights”
Hari Kebangsaan:
Malaysia’s independence day, falls on August 31st
There are many more holidays celebrated in Malaysia but I just wanted to illustrate a few because it is also important when being culturally literate to be familiar with what a culture celebrates

10. This is the university I will be attending

11. Common sights in Malaysia
The following slides are pictures of exciting things to see in Malaysia. I expect to see all of these sights while there this summer.

12. Many different kinds of food!
The Malay word for “food” is “makanan” and is pronounced mah-kah-nahn
When people eat in Malaysia it is a social event.

13. Wonderful Beaches

14. Brightly colored schools
This is an example of what a typical primary school looks like.
In Malaysia they refer to their equivalent of our elementary school as their “primary school”

15. Cameron Highlands
Mountain in Malay is “gunung” and is pronounced goo-nung

19. Kuala Lumpur

23. Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur
These towers have been featured in movies!
Inside are offices, businesses and stores.

24. Putrajaya…

28. Beaches around the country…
The Malay word for beach is “pantai” and is pronounced pahn-tai

34. Mosques…

35. More Mosques
Mosque in Malay is “masjid” and is pronounced, mahs-jid

37. Malaysia is primarily Muslim

40. Joom-pah lah-gee nahm-tee
Jumpa lagi nanti
See you later
Joom-pah lah-gee nahm-tee