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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
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
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)
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
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