Ended up you at all nervous about the strategy of immersing on your own in it? Was it outside the house of your ease and comfort zone?
I’m nervous and energized about getting capable to embark on my personal language-understanding journey this 12 months. While doing work on Voices on the Rise for the earlier 5 yrs, I have been in a position to witness and aid share tales about men and women doing these incredible function revitalizing and stabilizing Indigenous languages, in their families and communities, in so numerous different means. It is been genuinely inspiring. I was not able to carve out the time in my have life to target on it in the strategies that I required to.
Previous drop I produced a dedication to building the time this yr, so I’ll be accomplishing a Mentor / Apprentice method with one particular of my language mentors and we’ll be spending 100 hours in full language immersion this summertime and slide. We’ve labored alongside one another for a handful of a long time in a language team at the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, so we have a powerful partnership, but there is undoubtedly some irritation with understanding a new language. The levels of trauma all-around reclaiming anything that was deliberately and violently taken from your household are current, but the pleasure of speaking and laughing with my language mentor tends to make it all worthwhile.
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