How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-on-One Language Learning

How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-on-One Language Learning

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New speakers for endangered languages<p> Amid worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a group of dedicated language activists are doing something about it: they have created a master-apprentice language program, a one-on-one approach that has been remarkably successful in ensuring new speakers will take the place of those, often elderly, who are fluent in an endangered language.<p> <i>How to Keep Your Language Alive</i> is a manual for students of all languages, from Yurok to Yiddish, Washoe to Welsh; complete with exercises that can--can and should--be done in the most ordinary of settings, written with great simplicity and directness by a member of the linguistics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.