WAYK Podcast, Episode 40: Irish Night Blues
19 minutes and 25 seconds. [direct download] After several months meeting, the Irish Language night has been facing a series of issues due to an unideal location and a temporary… Read more »
Yearly Archives: December 15, 2010
The Wide World of WAYK
Here we go again – yet another introductory video to the world of WAYK. If you struggle explaining WAYK to your friends, try this video out. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/17222407]
Advanced WAYK Play at December’s Seattle Workshop
As some of you know, we are having an open WAYK workshop in Redmond, WA (near Seattle) December 3-5, 2010. We’d like to underscore how much of an opportunity this… Read more »
Seattle Area WAYK Workshop, December 3-5, 2010
The good folks at SolutionsIQ are partnering with us to bring you our first public workshop in a while. Please check out the event details at the December workshop event… Read more »
Focus on the Game
It’s easy to forget to just “play the game”, when using WAYK for the first time. The temptation to “remember” and “learn” is always lurking, ready to pounce on an… Read more »
Learning a Language vs. Creating a Language Community
There are a lot of people doing good work in language education; and you can find many talented language learners and polyglots. There are countless resources to learn a… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 39: Irish Gaelic Night
24 minutes and 33 seconds. [direct download here] This is the first podcast concerning our weekly WAYK Irish Language Night, with fluent speaker and Marylhurst University instructor Bob Burke. WAYK… Read more »
Put Yourself on the Map
If you don’t know yet, as a WAYK player you have a couple resources for connecting up with the community of language play out there. We have a WAYK google… Read more »
The Race to “Getting to the Party”
So, owing to our recent work with helping revitalize Ecclesastical Latin at Wyoming Catholic College, Evan and I finally decided to put pen to paper and make a written USC… Read more »
The Playful World of “Conlangs”
WAYK has found play in some unusual corners of the linguistic internet. For a language game that was developed to maintain an unbroken lineage of conversational life, it’s especially odd… Read more »
Language Hunting in Latin
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/15491950] In this video you’ll see footage of the September 2010 Latin WAYK Weekend Workshop at Wyoming Catholic College in Lander, WY. Towards the end of the weekend at… Read more »
WAYK Latin – Ubi sunt claves tuae?
Well, Evan Gardner and I (Willem Larsen) both just returned from Lander, WY, where we’ve been helping the good people of Wyoming Catholic College revitalize Latin. Lander has several noteworthy… Read more »
Iliodor Philemonof on Traditional Unangax Art and Regalia
[vimeo 14780588] In this video Iliodor Philemonof, elder speaker of Unangam Tunuu (Aleut), provides the language for some traditional items and art of the Unangax people. This video was filmed… Read more »
VIDEO: “Tea with Grandma” at the 2010 #WAYK Unangax Language Camp
[vimeo 14757931] We feel strongly that we’re doing work no one else is doing – work that teaches communities a particular kind of real-world, practical, all-ages, all-weather skills at learning… Read more »
“the Walk” in Unangam Tunuu with Iliodor Philemonof
[vimeo 14724207] This is a video of “the Walk” Unangam Tunuu curriculum, generated by and for the campers at the 2010 WAYK Unangax Language Camp. Note that there are no… Read more »
VIDEO: Unangam Tunuu Universal Speed Curriculum
[vimeo 14723748] This video contains the Unangam Tunuu Universal Speed Curriculum, and is a refresher for attendees of the 2010 Unangax Language Camp at the NW Indian College. It contains… Read more »
The New, Easy WAYK Video Tutorial
[vimeo 14722295] I really think we out-did ourselves this time – Evan and I finally may have brainstormed a format in which you can easily learn the core WAYK game… Read more »
WAYK/Unangax Language Camp 2010
In partnership with Becky Bendixen, of NW Unangax Culture, the NW Indian College on the Lummi Reservation in Bellingham, WA, and the fluent knowledge of Iliodor Philemonof, Unangax Pribilof dialect… Read more »
Can WAYK Revitalize Latin Too?
This September 23, 24, and 25, Evan Gardner and Willem Larsen will be holding a WAYK workshop at Wyoming Catholic College in Lander, Wyoming. Believe it or not, Latin still… Read more »
2010 “Save Your Language” conference group photo
Here’s a bit of long-overdue news – we promised a group photo to the attendees of Vancouver, B.C.’s June WAYK conference hosted by Squamish Nation language instructor Dustin Rivers. Click… Read more »