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WAYK Podcast, Episode 7: Technique “Money Talks”
WAYK Episode 7: Technique “Money Talks”. 58 minutes and 28 seconds. [direct download here] It’s tempting to dismiss the more mundane reasons for using, learning, and teaching language, but at… Read more »
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WAYK Instructor Vetting: Use of the WAYK Name/Logo
When can you use the WAYK name and logo? What do we think about you accepting money for running games of WAYK? We encourage everyone to organize free community games… Read more »
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WAYK Squamish, Video #3: “Slow/Fast”, “Craig’s List: Positives”
[vodpod id=Video.3285762&w=425&h=350&fv=] In this video Squamish nation WAYK instructor Dustin continues leading Chinook Nation WAYK instructor Justin in a game of Squamish language WAYK. To accelerate the acquisition of fluency,… Read more »
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WAYK Squamish, Video #2: “Pull me through it!”
[vodpod id=Video.3286281&w=425&h=350&fv=] In this video Squamish nation WAYK instructor Dustin continues leading Chinook Nation WAYK instructor Justin in a game of Squamish language WAYK. To accelerate the acquisition of fluency,… Read more »
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WAYK Squamish language: “What’s that?”
[vodpod id=Video.3278615&w=425&h=350&fv=] more about “WAYK Squamish language: “What’s that?””, posted with vodpod Squamish language is a very endangered indigenous language, native to Vancouver, B.C., with about only 10 fluent… Read more »
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WAYK Podcast, Episode 6: Dustin Starts the Squamish Language Night
WAYK Podcast, Episode 6: Dustin Starts the Squamish Language Night. 52 minutes and 25 seconds. [direct download here] Dustin Rivers (@dustinrivers) talks about the first WAYK Squamish language night that… Read more »
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WAYK Podcast, Episode 5: Revitalizing Chinuk Wawa, Part 2
WAYK Podcast, Episode 5: Revitalizing Chinuk Wawa, Part 2. 32 minutes and 18 seconds. [direct download] [Note: Chinuk Wawa is a very endangered indigenous language native to the Pacific Northwest…. Read more »
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Conversations with Remarkable Grandmothers: Want/Have/Give/Take in Arabic
More amazing work from Jay and his grandmother, a speaker of a Palestinian dialect of arabic. If you haven’t yet, please start with his 1st video, “What is that?”, and… Read more »
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WAYK Podcast, Episode 4: Revitalizing Chinuk Wawa
WAYK Podcast, Episode 4: Revitalizing Chinuk Wawa. 39 minutes and 41 seconds. [direct download] [Note: Chinuk Wawa is a very endangered indigenous language native to the Pacific Northwest. Please keep… Read more »
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WAYK Podcast, Episode 3: Debriefing the Game, Part II
WAYK Podcast, Episode 3: Debriefing the Game, Part II. 40 minutes and 37 seconds. [direct download] As we mentioned for Episode 2, this continues a series of debriefs podcasted to… Read more »
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Conversations with Remarkable Grandmothers
Jay returns with his second video on “Me/mine, You/yours” with his Grandmother who speaks his heritage language, a dialect of Palestinian Arabic. Jay would love to learn it and has… Read more »
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WAYK Podcast, Episode 2: Debriefing the Game
WAYK Podcast, Episode 2: Debriefing the Game. 32 minutes and 10 seconds. [direct download] We’ve decided to start sharing the debriefs of games we run with all of you in… Read more »
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Squamish Language and Holding a Regular Space for Conversation
As we’ve mentioned before, you take the first, most critical step in revitalizing a language (or achieving any goal) by holding a regular space for conversation. The first night of… Read more »
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WAYK Podcast, Episode 1: the Squamish Language Team Orientation
WAYK Podcast Episode 1 “the Squamish Language Team” [direct download here] Squamish Nation member Dustin Rivers hosted us recently in Vancouver, B.C., where we helped him share the WAYK game… Read more »
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WAYK game in Sḵwxwú7mesh snichim (Squamish Language)
[vodpod id=Video.3217710&w=425&h=350&fv=] I’ve made a short video excerpt of the game night footage I took at Dustin Rivers’ March 10th language team orientation. We’ve been working with Dustin to train… Read more »
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The WAYK/Squamish Language Team Project
Evan Gardner and I recently returned to Portland, OR after being hosted in Vancouver, B.C. for three nights by Dustin Rivers, a Squamish Nation member, traditional artist, and community organizer… Read more »
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WAYK is looking for a Documentary Filmmaker to Record a Revolution
We are looking for a documentary filmmaker to help turn around the global crisis of endangered languages, by filming something truly incredible – a “Where Are Your Keys?’/Squamish Language Team… Read more »
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Registration now open for San Francisco WAYK April 12,13
Last time we did a workshop in San Francisco (actually in Pleasanton, a nearby suburb) we had a fantastic time being hosted by Elisabeth Hendrickson’s Agilistry Studio team. So much… Read more »
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WAYK Lojban!
I knew we’d forget some amazing stuff – Alan Post, host of our first New Mexico workshop, has applied WAYK not only to Spanish, but to the conlang (constructed language)… Read more »
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WAYK Links Round-up
Here’s a run down of links, by folks who’ve played (or played with) the fluency game. The most recent, by Joel Shempert, an attendee of our February Portland Workshop (a… Read more »









