Teaching language to enhance travel, and traveling to explore language!
I want to talk more about what I’ve been calling “vigilante revitalization”. I recently wrote a series of posts about dying languages, discussing the importance of revitalization and why it’s difficult. Now, a new obstacle has come up: AI-generated books. If you’re new here, or didn’t see those posts, the most relevant one for understanding…
Hello again! In the last couple of weeks I’ve been talking about language death. This will be the last of three posts about the topic, in which I talk about how you can help with language death. It’s probably not going to be entirely what you expect. If you’ve just found your way here, you…
Last week I wrote about why language death is such a big deal. This week I wanted to expand on this idea a bit further and talk about some of the ongoing difficulties with language revitalization that linguists have to deal with. Why Language Revitalization can be Difficult Linguists who work in language revitalization have…
Language death is a constant problem and always will be. How many languages do you think about on a daily basis? And how many would you say you actually know about? Maybe 10-20? If you list out all the languages you’ve heard of, the list might not be very big. The list of languages you…
As I mentioned in my last post, I attended BVAR, an archaeology field school in San Ignacio, Belize. For information on what a field school is like, read that post. This will be more of a reflection on my experience as a whole. Soon, I’ll post about the places I traveled to on weekends. When…
I’m currently in Belize attending an archaeological field school called BVAR. Out of respect for the locals and archaeological integrity, I cannot divulge many details about the projects that are currently underway. Because of this project, Xunantunich and Cahal Pech have been excavated and are now tourist sites. We are currently working at Xunantunich and…