Miguel San Pedro: Craig’s List
For this post and more in the future, I’ll be writing about how WAYK techniques can be useful in life outside of language-learning contexts. Although just about all WAYK activity… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Techniques
WAYK Travelogue: Sky and David in China – Part 2
We Took the Long Way Home and The City Country We had a day of recovery before we were set to go to Fangshan for the week. David and I took… 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 »
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 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 »
“Feed Your Mind” – Top Techniques of WAYK
In any fluency hunting environment, whether leading a game, or setting-up for a one on one with a fluent fool, you can acknowledge the human need for nutrition and comfort by… Read more »
The Fluency Hunter’s Eye
Experiencing accelerated learning can be magnificent, meaningful, emotionally moving, exhilarating. And yet, the techniques and principles of accelerated learning are simple and concrete. Recently, I watched a video of speaker/author… 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 »
WAYK Book of “Fundamental Play Techniques”
For all of you dying to get a written version of the WAYK techniques, we’ve self-published about 15 copies of a 60 page booklet. This book covers about half of… Read more »
24. “Riddle-me-this” – the Top WAYK Techniques
When fluency hunting, you are never concerned with translations or explanations, because you are always looking to acquire an intuitive, whole-body understanding of the language or skill through riddle-me-this. Meaning… Read more »
23. “Lunatic Fringe” – the Top WAYK Techniques
During fluency hunting, you remain aware of everyone around you – young children playing, passers-by, and peers watching the hunt. You know that all these people are lunatic fringe, fully… Read more »
22. “Travels with Charlie”/”Sorry, Charlie” – the Top WAYK techniques
When fluency hunting, you use limit to move through ascending levels of complex performance, leaving a Travels with Charlie roadmap behind you, and calling sorry, charlie on yourself or others… Read more »
21. “Craig’s List” – the Top WAYK Techniques
While language hunting, when you periodically discover single words and concepts in your target language, you ask for them to be included in a Craig’s List (CL) of like concepts/words,… Read more »
“Copy-cat”: the Heart of Accelerated Learning
We often say, “WAYK is a copy-cat game, not a learning game. No learning allowed!”. This can seem rather tongue-in-cheek, as if we secretly mean, no really, we want you… Read more »
20. “Contract” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
In the midst of play, you or another fluency hunter spots a way to accelerate the learning environment. You enshrine it as a technique by giving it a catchy name,… Read more »
19. “Bite-sized Pieces” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
In order to keep players fluently participating in the game, you ensure all new information emerges in bite-sized pieces. Q: “How do you eat an elephant?” A: “One bite at… Read more »
18. “My Turn/Your Turn” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
While fluency hunting, you constantly double check your sense of the accent in play through my turn/your turn, maintaining a back and forth rhythm between yourself, your fellow players, and… Read more »
17. “You Go First” (Modeling) – Top 20 WAYK Techniques
While fluency hunting, you want to share a technique with another player. To demonstrate its value and context, you go first, applying it in play. Later, you see your fellow… Read more »
16. “Just in Time” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
You are fluency hunting a skill comprised of uncountable bite-sized pieces, with the option of using and sharing hundreds of accelerating techniques. Yet this doesn’t overwhelm you, because you always… Read more »
15. “Mumble” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
You may have hunted dozens of skills and languages – or none. But no matter what, every time you sit down with a new fluent fool to fluency hunt their… Read more »