10. “Start at the Beginning/Start Over” – the Top 20 WAYK Techniques
You’ve found a fluent fool, and you want to fluency hunt their ability. So you start at the beginning, and during your hunt, whenever you get lost or confused, you… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Technique: Start at the Beginning
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 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 30: Taking 3-D Holographic Notes
58 minutes and 17 seconds. [direct download] Willem and Joel (a veteran of a Portland WAYK workshop), with Peter and Sara listening, talk over Joel’s experiences that Chinuk Night. Then… 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 24: “It becomes second nature”
[direct download] Evan Gardner interviews Justin Robinson, Mary Wydell (a steadily progressing new “speaker-teacher”), and others about the most recent Chinuk Wawa (Chinook Jargon) night. 1. Technique “Colors and Numbers”… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 14: The 3rd Debrief of Squamish Language Night
48 minutes 47 seconds. [direct download here] If you regularly listen to our podcasts, you know by now how highly we value debriefs, and the tremendous insight and improvement that… Read more »
Dustin leads Justin’s second WAYK Squamish session
[vodpod id=Video.3312271&w=425&h=350&fv=] This marks the beginning of Justin Robinson’s (a Chinook Nation WAYK instructor, who runs WAYK games with us in Chinuk Wawa) second session of WAYK Squamish, as led… Read more »
WAYK Squamish #4: “Is that your…?”, “Start at the Beginning”, “Contract Sign”
[vodpod id=Video.3288955&w=425&h=350&fv=] In this video Squamish nation WAYK instructor Dustin continues leading Chinook Nation WAYK instructor Justin in a game of Squamish language WAYK. Dustin has now begun to add… Read more »
Squamish Language and Holding a Regular Space for Conversation
As we’ve mentioned before, you take the first, most critical step in revitalizing a language (or achieving any goal) by holding a regular space for conversation. The first night of… Read more »
“What is that?” in Greek
After introducing the game to your players, in WAYK you always first ask, “What-is-that?”, beginning the first step of the conversation that will take you to fluency. This five-minute short… Read more »