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WAYK Podcast, Episode 39: Irish Gaelic Night

24 minutes and 33 seconds. [direct download here] This is the first podcast concerning our weekly WAYK Irish Language Night, with fluent speaker and Marylhurst University instructor Bob Burke. WAYK… Read more »

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WAYK Podcast, Episode 36: “Let’s Hunt!”

50 minutes and 43 seconds. [direct download] 1. Technique “the Meadow” 2. Technique “the Evaluation” We give attendees a blank piece of paper to (anonymously or not) give us feedback… Read more »

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WAYK Podcast, Episode 31: Tea with Grandma

45 minutes and 52 seconds. [direct download] 1. Technique “Tea with Grandma” 2. Technique “Same Conversation” Leanne Hinton’s work with the Master/Apprentice system. Hang out with your elder, as much… Read more »

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WAYK Podcast, Episode 29: Mother May I?

27 minutes and 2 seconds. [direct download] Willem interviews Peter and Sara about the games they led for the most recent Chinuk Wawa (Chinook Jargon) Night. We discover that yet… Read more »

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“the Walk”: A Core WAYK Conversation

[vodpod id=Video.3646521&w=425&h=350&fv=] The WAYK method/mentoring language generates an ever-growing (and complexifying) collection of “Same Conversations”; reliable, familiar, and consistently repeating back-and-forth dialogues of language play. The “WAYK?” core conversation, the… Read more »

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WAYK Podcast, Episode 23: Turning the Corner

1 hr, 45 minutes, and 30 seconds. [direct download] In this really long episode, almost two hours long, we debrief our Chinuk Wawa conversation night, and realize that we’re experiencing… 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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Language Hunting

Reader and fluency game player Jay Bazuzi commented recently: In a month I’ll be visiting my grandmother and want to learn her language from her, so I’m eager to learn… Read more »

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Who’s On First?

The second question you ask in the WAYK game: “Who is that?/Whose is that?”, setting it up with a “Craig’s List” of pronouns: Me/Mine, You/Yours, He/His, She/Hers. Why do we… Read more »