I make listening practice videos for Turkish learners and I want your criticism!
For background, I'm a Turkish teacher and I have more than 13 years of teaching experience in all sorts of settings, not only in Turkish but also in English and a little in Japanese but Turkish has been my primary focus for many years and I speak it natively for the record.
I honestly and genuinely think these videos should be helpful in many ways, especially for beginner learners because it is extremely difficult to find authentic-sounding content that is graded. So I focus on making these natural sounding while being level appropriate. I'm on camera in some of these videos talking, and some of them are voice overs like this one. I realise that these aren't always the most excitingly dopaminergic videos that can keep up with the swiping culture of our era but they can't be, because that would make them unsuitable for beginner levels. They have to be slow and repetitive. That's what language learners need, especially at beginner levels. But I want to do a reality-check to see if I'm getting too sucked into my own ways of thinking, because I feel very passionate about these and want to make them better.
I want to know what your thoughts are. But not in the sense that I want to get comments on this post to hype it up, but in the sense that I REALLY want to know what you think. What did you find beneficial about it? What did you find bad about it? What made you want to stop watching it? What made you think that this wasn't helpful for you? I want to hear your harshest criticism, so I can get an outside view.
Thank you!