Robyn and Casey’s Language Adventure: Part 4 (Cooking in chinuk)
A fun way to practice TQ: Same Conversation is to cook in the language you are hunting. Fun fact about our super organized WAYK house on St. Paul: we have… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Interning with WAYK
Robyn and Casey’s Language Adventure: Part S.E.A.L.
The hardest part of hunting Chinuk is easily the most rewarding at the same time – much like the three mile “marathon” going on next week that Sky has convinced… Read more »
Robyn & Casey’s Language Adventure: Part 2
“The only time you are speaking wrong is when you are not speaking at all.” These are the words on a sign up in the Civic Center which is the… Read more »
Sky Hopinka: Why I returned for another WAYK Summer
Working with Evan, David Edwards, and April Charlo at the first WAYK summer program was a great experience. I learned a lot about language revitalization as well as community… Read more »
Robyn & Casey’s Language Adventure: Part 1
When we signed up to be interns with WAYK we really had no idea what we were actually getting ourselves into…in a good way. It’s next to impossible to explain… Read more »
Intern Introduction: Casey Boyette
I’m starting my third year at the University of Virginia this fall, where I major in linguistics, which is how I ended up applying to work on this summer intensive…. Read more »
Intern Introduction: Robyn Giffen
I am originally from Calgary, Alberta, but have been in Kelowna, BC for the past 6 years completing two degrees. I very recently (as in the week before I left… Read more »
Call for WAYK Summer 2015 Interns!
This summer, we are excited to offer three WAYK internship positions that will be sponsored by our host community of St. Paul Island, Alaska through APIA and ACSPI. Participating in… Read more »
WAYK Summer Schedule
It can be hard to imagine what a language revitalization summer looks like, but working to strengthen a language is a full-time job. As with any program centered around language… Read more »
WAYK Summer Intern Expectations
What you can expect as an intern: You will learn how to use WAYK. One of the main purposes of the WAYK Summer Intensive is to provide a comprehensive training… Read more »
WAYK Summer 2015: St. Paul Island, Alaska
WAYK is thrilled to finally announce the details of our 2015 Summer Intensive! After many weeks of behind-the-scenes work with our host community and organizations, we can officially say: we… Read more »
Why You Should Intern for WAYK! by Julia
1) You’ll meet cool people. If you want to get to know really awesome people, working on language revitalization projects is a great place to meet them. Together with my… Read more »
Julia Stiles: A preview of Kodiak Alutiiq
This past week, I was lucky to have the opportunity to fly up to Alaska and meet the community with which Will and I will be working over… Read more »
Will Monroe: Summer Intern
Cama’i, everyone! My name’s Will, and I’m the newest addition to the Where Are Your Keys intern crowd. I’m in Kodiak with Julia, working with the Alutiiq language community. This… Read more »
What “Where Are Your Keys?” Did for Me.
After spending 5 weeks with Evan, while he was working with my language community, the opportunity came up. Evan asked me if I would like to go with him to… Read more »
Part One: Chinese Wrap Up and Decolonization in Language Revitalization
Sky Hopinka wraps up the summer trip to China and discusses topics that have come up regarding WAYK, language revitalization, and decolonization. Sky also wants to say that he is… Read more »
Meet Melissa
Blog 1: What did WAYK at PSU give you? I was a Senior at Portland State University in my second to last term when I decided to attend a Chinuk… Read more »
WAYK Travelogue: Sky and David in China – Part 6
Xianqi on a Train Our next project was to go to a small town south of Shanghai called Dalan, or Dalanzhen, and work with a group of teenage volunteers who… Read more »
WAYK Travelogue: Sky and David in China – Part 5
Getting to the Party at Chuangwei Elementary School The rest of our time at Chuanwei was exciting and interesting in finding ways to implement the game. We got set in… Read more »
WAYK Travelogue: Sky and David in China – Part 4
Brother, ima Bassist I didn’t have enough Mandarin to be able to speak to anyone but a few people and hunt from the friendliest of players, and I mostly took… Read more »