Nsyilxcn 1 Evening Classes at WFN Nov.-June 2020

N̓syilxčn̓ 1 - Review Lessons 19, 24, 29, 35 & 37

N̓syilxčn̓ 1 - Review Lessons 13, 3, 4, 5 & 8

N̓syilxčn̓ 1 - Lesson 39 Teaching video

N̓syilxčn̓ 1 - Lesson 38 Teaching Video

Syilx Language House adult program FILMS

Syilx Language House shares evaluation films each year.

4th Year qłnun̓tm̓ Evaluation June 2019 WE MADE IT! 
uploaded April 16, 2020 ​

1st year Learning by doing – Spring 2016  
uploaded Aug 12, 2016

Elders Storytelling Evening Feb. 23, 2016
uploaded Aug. 12, 2016
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2nd Year Learning by teaching
uploaded August 30, 2017

3rd Year Video by Shaw TV in Syilx Language House
Tamie Williams and Doug Brown. uploaded March 4, 2018

4th Year Čaptíkʷł 3 Storytelling film  
uploaded ​Jan 2, 2019

Language House BLOG by Sk̓awilx & Qʷyqʷʕayáx̌n

10 Days of Winter song in N̓syilxčn̓ by 4th year students
uploaded Dec 19, 2018

SLH in the media

Link to an academic publication with a transcribed Elder's narrative. Elder Story transcription published in UBC Working Papers in Linguistics. July 2020. 

Despite Challenges, Syilx Nation language students celebrate graduation (over zoom) -Kelowna Capital News. June 30, 2020 (Our N1 and C1 evening class celebrated 7 months graduation)

Syilx Language Program comes to West Kelowna - Kelowna Capital News. 
Twila Amato, November 2019. Interviews with Krista Lindley, Michele Kay Johnson

Syilx Language House celebrates special milestone as graduation gets closer
​Oliver Chronicle. Dec. 27, 2017

​CBC Radio class interview 

Media from Čaptíkʷł 3 film Release, Penticton Western News, Jan 3, 2019
Critically Endangered Language Being Brought Back to Life (interview with Michele Johnson)
https://www.revelstokereview.com/community/critically-endangered-language-being-brought-back-to-life/ 

Media www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/245994/Saving-a-culture

Citation about Dr. Michele Johnson and the "Language House" method from Xh'unei Lance Twitchell, Tlingit language warrior, 2016. An estimate that it takes 6,000 hours (2 hours a day for TEN years) to reach advanced fluency.   https://www.academia.edu/27138947/Yan_Has_Awsin%C3%A9i_Ax_Yaa_Gax_too_%C3%A1t_Y%C3%A9_Increasing_Adult_Fluency_in_the_Tlingit_Language
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Language revitalization links

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN 2007)

Indigenous Languages Recognition, Preservation & Revitalization Report (FPCC 2016) 

Task force on Aboriginal Cultures Report (2005)
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Report on the status of BC First Nations Languages (FPCC 2014)

Learning Tlingit through Story (Paul Creek model of writing curriculum) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NdG-VePBHo&t=2s