{"id":52,"date":"2012-12-02T22:11:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T05:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indigenous2point0\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-12-07T02:02:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T09:02:43","slug":"language-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/indigenous2point0\/2012\/12\/02\/language-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Language learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Numerous Indigenous activists and academics have argued the importance of language preservation and language learning<\/a> in cultural revitalization for tribal peoples (see Baker-Williams, 2000<\/a> for a literature review and discussion of language revitalization an its role in decolonization) . As a Cree woman who knows scarcely twenty-five words in my native language, I have a strong desire to learn the language my father spoke fluently but did not teach to me. Living in Vancouver, with no direct contact with family members who speak Cree, I have found creative and engaging ways to use social media in my language learning pursuits. Specifically, I have added many counts to this Youtube posting of a Cree language song by Carl Quinn, which has the lyrics posted as a notation to the video:
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