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Firstvoices.com
At the core of the FirstVoices Web application is an online
language archiving tool. Each language collection consists
of an alphabet, dictionary and phrase book. The alphabet
provides the written character set for a language, with
sample sound files for each character. The dictionary provides
a word list, with translations, definitions, sounds, images
and video. FirstVoices Phrase Books contain everyday conversational
language with related text, sound, image and video files
to support language learning.
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FirstvoicesKids.com
FirstVoices Kids is a set of interactive
online photo dictionaries and games that provides pre-readers
(ages one to five) with access to the Indigenous language
resources at FirstVoices.com. It uses pictures to guide pre-readers
through a series of simple steps to hear their language spoken
and associate words with pictures.
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LANGUAGE SERVICES
Our FirstVoices Language
Archive, launched in June of 2003, is used by many groups to
record and archive their native languages.
Through the use of video and sound files, Elders will be able
to leave a legacy of the language for future generations. more…
Other wonderful products have included the “One Green
Tree” book written by young new language learners. The
book has since been published.
We also helped to eliminate the problem of keyboard character
variations with the design of a keyboard template. more…
Contact us:
1A Boat Ramp Road
Brentwood Bay, BC V8M 1N9 Canada
tel: (250) 652-5952
fax: (250) 652-5953
Email:
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Announcements
One Green Tree
Counting with Colors in SENCOTEN
The SENCOTEN language edition of “One Green Tree”
is a collaboration between teachers and students at the LÁU,WELNEW
Tribal School, the First Peoples’ Cultural Foundation
and Trafford
Publishing. It is the first in a series of five BC Aboriginal
language books to be published. This 16-page primer is intended
to teach colours and numbers in SENCOTEN, the language of
the Saanich people. Authors, Adriane Bill, Roxanne Cayou and
Jacqueline Jim have been students of LÁU,WELNEW since
kindergarten and have a strong connection to their Saanich
language and heritage.
Illustrator and language teacher John Elliott has illustrated
several publications relating to the language and culture
of the Saanich people.
Order
a copy of “One Green Tree”
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