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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 »
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Wrapping up our Portland WAYK Workshop
We set some (we thought…) reasonable but challenging goals for the weekend workshop and then proceeded to blast past them in the first day. Great, but dizzying! Please download the… Read more »
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WAYK 30 Second Elevator Speech
Our most recent iteration: “Where Are Your Keys?” is a collaborative game of high speed language learning, that uses sign language as a bridge for learning a targeted spoken language,… Read more »
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Jay and his Grandmother
We see the “open source” nature of the fluency game as one of its biggest strengths – the fact that we look to no central authority for teaching or learning,… Read more »
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“Same Conversations”: the WAYK Curriculum
The WAYK toolkit doesn’t provide a preset curriculum for any particular language; it provides the tools for generating this curriculum. In a sense, for us, “curriculum” has become somewhat of… Read more »
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The First Step: Hold a Regular Space for Conversation
For any thing that we want to learn (or revitalize), we first need to open up a regularly occurring space for it in our lives. This first step, even if… Read more »
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WAYK workshop in San Francisco, Jan 23rd and 24th, 2010
Agilistry Studio just sent us the following event announcement for us to share – hope to see all you budding WAYK revolutionaries there! Where Are Your Keys Saturday, January 23,… Read more »
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Revitalizing an Endangered Language in 8 weeks
Language revitalization doesn’t happen once; it signifies a necessary and continual process throughout the life of a language. Revitalization happens every time a new person learns the language, every time… Read more »
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Turning Around the Destiny of an Endangered Language
We now live in a time where, in the next 5-10 years, we will see a massive die-off of language diversity as globalization and modern forces have their final… Read more »