How to Use a Hunting Book
Take notes like a pro, or like a 5th grader, so long as you do it! In 2015, during my first summer with WAYK, Evan and Susanna gave me a… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Chinuk Wawa
Robyn’s Chinuk Wawa Language Adventure 2.2
I’m happy to report that I finally hit one of my milestone conversations in chinuk wawa! I can make, and explain how to make, one of my favourite desserts–rice krispie… Read more »
Use It Or Lose It
If you don’t use it you’ll lose it. That age-old adage we hear, especially about language learning, means that if you don’t speak the languages you know you will forget… Read more »
Robyn’s Chinuk Wawa Language Adventure 2.1
If you’ve been following the WAYK blog for the past year you know that while I was interning last summer Evan, Susanna, and Sky taught Casey and I chinuk wawa… Read more »
WAYK proves I’m not a language-learning dud!
When the community we planned to start working with in late May 2014 had its funding temporarily delayed, Evan and I decided to make the most of our free time and the +1500-km drive I had made… Read more »
Surprise, you’re a teacher.
Something that has made the WAYK Summer Intensive special for me is the role of teaching. Before WAYK, I had a lot of misconceptions regarding what it is to teach…. Read more »
The Intersection of Language and Food
Food is often the social spark that brings people together. I learned very quickly when planning events in university that if you want people to show up to a meeting… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
Beyond the Script
This video shows what advanced WAYK looks like. This is no longer the simple “What is That?” game. Now that Evan and Sky are both seasoned WAYK players, they can… 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 »
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 »
WAYK at Portland State University
WAYK was asked by UISHE, the United Indian Students in Higher Education, to come and present at the Native American Student and Community Center on the PSU campus in honor… Read more »