In the spirit of the last post, nêhiyawêtân!, I have been trying to be more consistent with my use of Cree at home. In order to do this, I’m focusing on certain periods of the day to really get the vocabulary down. My goal is to become more used to using Cree with my children,…
Category: Fluency
nêhiyawêtân!
Before I had children, the plan was that I would be a fluent speaker of Cree so that I could teach it to my children. How hard could it be? I already knew some Cree, and I’d learned to speak Spanish fluently in a short period of time without intensive studies. (The father of my…
Language and power
I talk about language a lot, so it is not strange that on various occasions people have brought up the issue of language as power. This has happened enough times that I’ve given it a fair amount of thought, without necessarily having resolved any of the issues. Most of us are not fluent speakers of…