Going Cold Jerky*: Outside of the WAYK Bubble
Here’s Robbie Penman’s update from the fall of 2017, a few months after his summer with WAYK on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Thanks for the update, Robbie! *Jerky is one… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Endangered Languages
Bubble Policy: How Can Immersion Bubbles Help an Indigenous Language Community?
In my last blog, I wrote about the obstacles to maintaining an immersion bubble. In this blog, I ask how the immersion bubble, as a kind of “language policy”, can… Read more »
Bubble Policy: Why Do People Break or Keep Up Immersion?
The idea of creating an “immersion bubble” is probably nothing new in language learning. Nor is it new within the field of language revitalization in the 20th and 21st centuries;… Read more »
Linguistic Terminology Part 2
Read Myles’ first post about linguistic terminology here. Working in the field of linguistics over the last few years, I have noticed some divisions in terminology that I would like… Read more »
The Danger of Putting Endangered Languages on a “Shelf”
What does it mean to revitalize a language? What does it mean to secure its existence for the next generation of speakers? What does this look like and why is… Read more »
5th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC 5)
The 5th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), “Vital Voices: Linking Language & Wellbeing,” will be held March 2-5, 2017, at the Hawaiʻi Imin International Conference Center on… Read more »
Pedagogy Rusticatio with WAYK
We are pleased to share a gorgeous new video by Sky Hopinka, WAYK team member and a truly stellar filmmaker. Sky’s film is about how classroom teachers can strengthen one… Read more »
VIDEO: Irish Language (Gaeilge) 2
[vimeo=19905263] Here’s the second video in our Irish Language series. Start with the first one. In order to take advantage of videos like this, you’ll need to have mastered the… Read more »
VIDEO: Irish Language (Gaeilge) 1
[vimeo=19896067] For anyone who has either been to a WAYK workshop, language night, or mastered the WAYK tutorial, you can copy-cat along with this video and learn some Irish language,… Read more »
Help “Where Are Your Keys?” Help the World
Thank you to everyone playing WAYK, and for getting the word out about the Fluency Revolution. Please keep it up – we’re making progress, but aren’t quite there yet. We’re… Read more »
Deep Breaths. And a Long View.
I’d like to say I’ve gotten better at not panicking when I hear of a language struggling. While mostly true, I still have a reaction – it now just feels… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Languages Are Dying, Right Now; Yet Still We Hope
In the past month, two critical members of the Hupacasath First Nation died; they numbered among the last who spoke the language native to Vancouver island fluently from childhood. Hupacasath… Read more »