Syilx Language House adult program FILMS

Adult learners share an evaluation film each year

Storytelling 1-yr fluency presentations April 1, 2021
550 hours of fluency and look what they can do 

4th Year qłnun̓tm̓ student interviews June 2019  
We completed our 4 year program. Uploaded April 16, 2020 ​

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

3rd Year Video by Shaw TV at SLH
Tamie Williams & Doug Brown. uploaded March 4, 2018

2nd Year Learning by teaching
uploaded August 30, 2017

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

Elders Storytelling Night Feb. 23, 2016
uploaded Aug. 12, 2016

Language House BLOG by Sk̓awilx & Qʷyqʷʕayáx̌n

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

Nsyilxcn 1 Evening Classes at WFN Nov.2019-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

SLH in the media

Academic publication written by SLH staff 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