The set-up for the “sharpening tools” conversation, as briefly mentioned in this podcast.
42 minutes and 56 seconds.
Evan, Peter, and Lisa gather for another Chinuk Night debriefing conversation.
1. Technique “Same Conversation”
- Peter and Evan collaborated on the conversation of “sharpening tools”
2. Technique “Craig’s List”
- Peter and Evan created a new CL, “How Do They Move”
3. Technique “Where Are Your Keys?”
- Lisa tells the story of learning Chinuk Wawa over the past month.
4. Technique “Killing Faeries”
- Peter stops translating new language immediately once new WAYK players have finished “want/have/give/take”.
- For example, Peter doesn’t translate “CL: Above, Below, In-Front-of…” when he brings it into play.
5. Technique “Slow/Fast”, “Parrot”, “Sing-a-long-Song”
- Peter describes how WAYK players dovetail all these techniques.
- Lisa describes the seamlessness and comfort of learning language this way.
6. Technique “We’ll All Get There Together”
- WAYK removes the spotlight.
- You’re not here to learn, you’re here to teach.
7. Technique “Language Hunting”
- Learning to teach is learning to hunt.
8. Technique “Último”
- Lisa has concerns about her experiences learning from first-time WAYK teachers.
- Evan shares these concerns
9. Techniques “Squatter’s Rights”, “Mr. Willem’s Wild Ride”
- Peter realizes he doesn’t understand the difference between “squatter’s rights” and “Mr. Willem’s wild ride”.
- Evan describes the difference between these two techniques.
- “Mr. Willem’s Wild Ride” indicates a lack of marking and explaining techniques (and making sure newbies teach soon), in favor of a rapid rise in language proficiency.
- “Squatter’s Rights” means pushing farther into new language territory, even if players aren’t fully fluent in the old territory yet.
10. Technique “Último”
- Evan describes the rationale behind having total WAYK newbies teaching right away.
11. Technique “Roadmap”
- Peter thinks the WAYK team should put a visual roadmap on the wall at the WAYK immersion house, and introduce each brand-newbie to it right away.
- Evan and Peter discuss what elements to include on the roadmap.
- Lisa talks about her resistance to attending Chinuk Wawa night.
12. Techniques “Killing Faeries”, “Abigail’s Antidote”
- Abigail invented an antidote to the death of a faery, by clapping them back to life, per the story of Peter Pan!
In the colors discussion, you mentioned that “pink” in Chinuk is “grey-red”.
Before the orange fruit appeared in the English-speaking world, our word for the color was “geoluhread” or “yellow-red”.
If a new player is surprised that color names aren’t universal, you can use this to help them see the fluidity of color names as being less foreign.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)