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06/18/2010 - Cherokee Syllabary Flash Cards Published
Our lesson on Cherokee writing will be the final lesson of our Cherokee language
tutorial but is scheduled to be published first. Until then, enjoy some Cherokee
Syllabary flash cards at
www.cherokee.saivus.org.
06/09/2010 - Hawaiian Preface Published
A 10 page preface to the
Hawaiian tutorial was published, in preparation for subsequent lessons.
From now on we will be publishing prefaces that detail our teaching strategy,
since people were making assumptions based on our barebones pronunciation
guides. Unlike pronunciation guides, our grammar lessons will incorporate
culture and make extensive use of Flash technology in the form of animations and
games. We also slightly revised the format of our lessons' hardcopies to help
conserve paper.
04/26/2010 - Lakota Project Cancelled
SAIVUS has removed our Lakota tutorial and abandoned our Lakota project. Our
reasoning is displayed at the previous Lakota lesson link:
www.lakota.saivus.org.
04/13/2010 - Website/Research Methods Heavily Reformed
Based on a new critique we have stated our mission more clearly. Many people
were getting the notion we are trying to provide language revitalization, which
is beyond the scope of our services. Rather, our objective is to help distance
learners acquire a bit of their language; preliminary knowledge that will be of
use once placed in a reading or speaking environment.
We will also focus more on quality and less on quality when consulting sources.
We will spend less on trying to track down many sources and concentrate more
deeply on information from recent, reliable core-works.
Also: more additions to the FAQ, Projects, and Volunteer and Contact sections.
We're on Facebook
now!
04/09/2010 - New Member
Today we welcomed Richard Littauer, an honors Master's candidate for linguistics
at the University of Edinburgh to our team. He is renowned for creating Na'vi
teaching materials at
www.learnnavi.org, which is
the artificial language constructed for the movie Avatar. Also, based on a
critique from Jan F. Ullrich (Lakota Language Consortium) we will seriously
revise our research methodology and consider abandoning our
Lakota project.
04/02/2010 - New Member
Today we welcomed Jacob Collard to our team. Jacob will be helping us create a
grammar guide to the Lakota language.
03/10/2010 - Site Revamp
Major changes to the site took effect today. The About,
(News), Projects, and
Contact sections were updated, and a new
Links section
was added. The FAQ and
Volunteer were extensively
updated; SAIVUS is answering more of your questions and has thought of more
ways you can help us help endangered languages.
Our number of collaborators has increased; we are joined by Leandra
Hill (Zapoteca/Hopi) and John Faucett (Scottish/Cherokee).
02/02/2010 - Lakota, Hawaiian and PISL Language Bibliographies Published
Bibliographies are now complete for all of the languages for which SAIVUS is
currently building tutorials. Some of these languages have never had
bibliographies until now; see SAIVUS
Bibliographies. Also, some mistakes were fixed in the Hawaiian lesson.
01/12/2010 - Cherokee Language Bibliography Published
Check out our new Cherokee language
bibliography. This is the first bibliography that has ever been published
specifically on Cherokee language and linguistics.
Our tutorials are predicated on various articles and books that have been
written on each language. Ordinarily, every reseracher has to make their own
bibliographies before they can write one of these sources. Our hope is that
SAIVUS' bibliographies will allow them to waste less time on clerical work and
allocate more time to studying the language.
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