Mastodawn

And while this is genuinely humbling, rest assured that it will only make me more annoying. Your students can be fluent in a year. No more excuses!!
#language #education #languagerevitalization #endangeredlanguages #Indigenouslanguages #actfl https://social.vivaldi.net/@multilingualfutures/116540116886203630

multilingualfutures (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images The year of the wood snake handed my a** to me in a very unexpected way. I spend all my time telling language educators that their expectations are too low, that their students can become fluent much faster than they think! But then... I said something was impossible...which we then immediately achieved...and I can't frickin believe it.

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multilingualfutures Apr 20

I know they put your thesis online and I am a big advocate for making research publicly available, but it's still shocking and blush-inducing every time that someone reads or cites your weird little passion manifesto from a former lifetime. 🥰 #education #research #endangeredlanguages #languagerevitalization #highered

multilingualfutures Apr 9

The idea that children have to do what we say or we are entitled to inflict suffering upon them is the ideology of the Ep$tein class.
#education #teaching #languages #languagerevitalization #schools

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multilingualfutures Apr 6

I actually don't think we need help learning to love, to be loving. I think we need permission from others to divest from fear. And being surrounded by people who have come to refuse fear is incredibly freeing. I want for all of us to release superficiality and material obsessions at a much younger age, so that we can be in our worth and our power, and invest in the world the elders know we need to build.
#education #linguistics #endangeredlanguages #spirituality #languagerevitalization https://social.vivaldi.net/@multilingualfutures/116358615539201259

multilingualfutures (@[email protected])

Not to brag💅, but I spend almost all of my time with folks in their 60s, 70s, and 80s, and it's f'n metal🤘. 13/10 would recommend. I often say that my most meaningful learning started after I got my PhD, when I was so craving the chance to learn about life, existence, and broader ways of knowing. I intentionally learned from spiritual teachers, but less intentionally began doing fieldwork with elders of several nations.

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Johanna Laakso Feb 19

Reversing language shift, or #languageRevitalization in action: how Inari #Saami was brought back from death’s door. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-saving-the-inari-smi-language

#endangeredLanguages
#languageNest

How toddlers in Finland's 'language nests' are saving an endangered Sámi language

Special nurseries are helping the Sámi people in Finland to bring their almost-lost language back from the brink of extinction.

BBC

A-Dub 🥝Feb 7

"The Cook Islands community celebrated the launch of the first full immersion Te Reo Māori Kuki Airani primary school in Rarotonga.

Te Papa Apii Rutaki (new name of the school) is now teaching entirely in Cook Islands Māori, in a stand to ensure the language lives on." 🔥

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/586043/cook-islands-community-turns-to-full-immersion-education-to-save-maori-language

#LanguageRevitalization #KukiAirani #CookIslands #Pasifika

Cook Islands community turns to full immersion education to save Māori language

"Cook Islands Māori is on the trajectory to becoming an extinct language."

RNZ

Michael Conrad Jan 28

🗣️ Calling all language revitalization allies!

We're launching a community-led effort to reclaim and rebuild the Brothertown language—grounded in Proto-SNEA and guided by expert linguists. Volunteers welcome!

🔗 https://michael-conrad.com/blog/brothertown-community-language-initiative/

#Brothertown #LanguageRevitalization #Algonquian #SNEA #CommunityLanguage #IndigenousLanguages #Linguistics #LanguageReclamation #indigenous

Brothertown Community Language Initiative / Michael Conrad - Gamebooks and Other Stuff

Andrew Abdalian Jan 20

I'm thrilled to share that I've started working as a Language Learning Specialist on Rosetta Stone's Endangered Languages team.

It's really exciting to be able to continue working on digital language learning tools for #LanguageRevitalization, doing work that I'm passionate about.

#linguistics