Guest Post: Sorry Charlie – Learned Helplessness
Today as part of our professional development, we were presented with the following video: While watching this I got to think about Sorry Charlie. When we throw someone a Sorry… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Player Reflections
Stephen Printup—Chinuk Wawa Blogpost
My name is Stephen and I was introduced to Chinuk Wawa and the Where Are Your Keys method about 2 years ago. I am a student at Portland State with… Read more »
Meet Qwina West and the Bishop Paiute language class of Bishop California
In February I received a random email. Qwina said he watched the videos on you tube and vimeo and decided to take WAYK for a spin! He taped the first… Read more »
Alina earns University Credit for WAYK at Portland State!
The best part of summer has to be no school and homework to get in the way of me focusing on Hunting Navajo and gaining fluency in Chinuk Wawa. My… 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 3
These Colors Don’t Run Basically, why we were in Fangshan was that the Principal runs a school for the children of under privileged migrant workers, the Boshi school. She was working… Read more »
Miguel San Pedro: Spanish Discoveries and a New Technique Name
While I was helping Evan over the past few weeks improve his house to sell, I had some time to learn Spanish from him. We didn’t have to set aside… Read more »
Miguel San Pedro: What’s Been Going On
Oregon’s been treating me well lately, and I’ve been approaching this summer with a lot of wonder. Here’s what I’ve been up to the past several weeks so you… Read more »
WAYK Welcomes an Intern, Miguel San Pedro
Hi, everyone! My name’s Miguel, and I’m one of the Where Are Your Keys? (WAYK) interns this summer. I’ve been in the beautiful state of Oregon since Monday, June 25,… Read more »
It Takes Two to Tango
(by WAYK intern Cedar Edwards) I had an epiphany yesterday. This Saturday, Sky and I are flying to China to help an NGO in Beijing run a summer WAYK training… Read more »
A Fascinating Story: A Summer with Where Are Your Keys?
This past summer, while we were in Warm Springs, Sky Hopinka was filming and interviewing us for a short documentary he wanted to do on WAYK. Now that the editing… Read more »
WAYK News From Stanford
Greetings, friends. Today we have a guest blog from Julia Fine, a WAYK regular, sharing what they’ve been doing at Stanford University, and a bit about what we’ll be doing… Read more »
Status Report: Chinuk Wawa Language Nights in Portland
In this blog post, Sky Hopinka tells about his experiences so far with the Chinuk Wawa group at Portland State University. For the past eight weeks now, the Chinuk Wawa… Read more »
Warm Springs WAYK High School students in the Bend Bulletin
The Bend Bulletin, the central Oregon newspaper, ran an article last week about the continuation of the summer language program at Madras High School. Since the completion of the WAYK… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 43: Y’all Are Lappin’ Me
35 minutes and 41 seconds. [direct download] Recorded July 28th, 2011 In this episode, the overarching theme is getting everyone to manage their Full levels and really examine why we… Read more »
The Kalispel/Flathead Trip Report
Here’s an account of our recent trip to the Flathead Reservation by our very own April Charlo. Also, expect more podcasts and blog posts to come soon, we’ve been very… Read more »
News from Boston WAYK, April 22-24th
Willem (me) ran the workshop, and I wanted to try a new experiment. As my skill increases as a language hunter, I find that I need to keep upping the… Read more »
Language Hunting and Responsible Travel
From Lonely Planet’s website (maker of guidebooks, phrasebooks, and other media): ‘Responsible travel’ means assessing our impact on the environment and local cultures and economies – and acting to make… 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 »
WAYK Unangax (Aleut) Language Revival in Bellingham, WA
Save the Date! From August 24th through the 30th, in Bellingham, WA, Evan Gardner and Willem Larsen will be facilitating a week-long WAYK training and Unangax language revival event. If… Read more »