Keeping Basque speakers—and making more — Loving Language
After the Basque class this summer, I had an opportunity to speak with the teacher, Txili Lauzirika. He is a native speaker of Euskara (Basque), with a passion for the […]
After the Basque class this summer, I had an opportunity to speak with the teacher, Txili Lauzirika. He is a native speaker of Euskara (Basque), with a passion for the […]
In Simon Sinek’s TEDx Talk, “How great leaders inspire action”, he posits that great ideas begin not with the “What,” but with the “Why” and then the “How.” That is, […]
By raising the prestige of the languages spoken in our schools, we augment the ability of all of our students to learn languages. Children figure out how to do what […]
by Jan Priddy Some years ago in a writing workshop, twelve people sat around a broad conference table arguing about the word “whispered.” The text we were looking at had […]
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Airports are great for languages. How do we use them to teach? I recently blogged about traveling through the Denver airport, and the languages that I…
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How will we nurture the languages of the next generation? When we think of preserving language, we think of the last speakers of the language.…
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You can’t keep languages pure. They always adapt. This post concludes the 4 points I learned about people from the linguistic theories of Prof. Noam Chomsky.…