Miguel San Pedro: Spanish Discoveries and a New Technique Name
While I was helping Evan over the past few weeks improve his house to sell, I had some time to learn Spanish from him. We didn’t have to set aside… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Technique: Obviously
2. “Obviously!” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
Once we agree to share accelerators that work through tq “Technique!”, it leads us to tq “Obviously!”: the mother of all other techniques. Every technique in the WAYK system… Read more »
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 »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 37: “Overwhelming Grandma”
1 hour, 7 minutes, 5 seconds. [direct download] 1. Technique “Tea with Grandma” Where do you start when you sit down with Grandma? 2. Technique “Start at the Beginning” 3…. Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 28: WAYK Eye on the Straight Guy
1 hour, 50 minutes, and 53 seconds. [direct download] Evan Gardner, Willem Larsen, Peter, and Joel interview each other on Chinuk Wawa Night (Chinook Jargon). Though this episode is almost… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 27: The Olympics of Language Acquisition
35 minutes and 54 seconds. [direct download] Evan Gardner and Willem Larsen discuss some of the central issues of WAYK, such as its use of sign language, as a “bridge… Read more »
“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 »
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 »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 20: April’s San Francisco Workshop
1 hour, 15 minutes, and 51 seconds. [direct download] 1. Technique “Agile“ Why did we offer a WAYK workshop for IT professionals who belong to the Agile software development community?… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 16: The Angel and the Devil
[direct download here] Evan, Willem, and new WAYK game leader Peter, sit down to talk about how the recent Chinuk Wawa conversation night went. This kind of “debrief” conversation plays… Read more »
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 »
“Language Hunting” 2: Evan’s response
And now, Evan’s follow up: I am so excited for you Jay! Learning your own language from your own elder… A wonderful source of pride for your entire family and… Read more »
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 »
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 »