Call for WAYK 2017 Interns!
This summer, we are very lucky to again be able to offer at least three WAYK internship opportunities. These positions are sponsored by our host community (St. Paul Island) in… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Internship
WAYK Summer Intern Expectations: 2017 Update
What you can expect as an intern: You will learn how to use WAYK. One of the main purposes of the WAYK Summer Intensive is to provide a comprehensive training in… Read more »
Announcing WAYK’s 2017 Summer Intensive: St. Paul Island, Alaska!
After months of preliminary planning with our host community and organizations, WAYK is excited to announce the details of our 2017 Summer Intensive. This summer, the WAYK team will be… 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 »
Technique: Spare the Fairies
Learning another language is tough—new sounds that our mouths are not used to pronouncing, unfamiliar words, and grammar structures that just don’t feel normal. It is completely natural to want… Read more »
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 »
How It’s “Biin” So Far
At the time I’m writing this post, it’s nearing the halfway point of my internship with WAYK and my summer in the community of Atka, Alaska. As the days go… 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 »
Color-Coding at the WAYK house
One of my favourite things so far as a WAYK intern is the color-coded organization of the WAYK house. Months before we arrived in Atka, each member of the WAYK… 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 Unangam Tunuu Summer Intensive 2.0
My name is Robyn and this will be my second summer as a WAYK intern. Last summer I was a WAYK intern helping out with the Unangam Tunuu project on… Read more »
Intern Introduction: Samuel Catanach
Bahpibo! (Hello!) My name is Samuel and I am from P’osuwaegeh Owingeh (meaning ‘Water Drinking Place Village’), more commonly known as the Pueblo of Pojoaque, a Tewa speaking American Indian… Read more »
Intern Introduction: Erin McGarvey
Hi, I’m Erin McGarvey. I am originally from Jordan, a very small town just outside of St. Catharines, Ontario. My school only had about 160 kids and my house… Read more »
Meet WAYK’s 2016 summer intern team!
When we opened up our application for summer WAYK interns in January, our summer intensive in Atka, AK seemed very far in the future. This year, it is wonderful that… Read more »
What it’s like to be a WAYK Intern
Interning: do anything and everything #forthelanguage! Explaining what it’s like to be a WAYK intern is no easy task. To be perfectly honest, I really had no idea what I… Read more »
Call for WAYK Summer 2016 Interns!
This summer, we are very lucky to again be able to offer three WAYK internship opportunities. These positions are sponsored by our host community (Atka, Alaska) in partnership with APIA… Read more »
WAYK Summer Intern Expectations: 2016 Update
What you can expect as an intern: You will learn how to use WAYK. One of the main purposes of the WAYK Summer Intensive is to provide a comprehensive training… 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 »
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 »