num_pages: 144
description: Amid worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a group of dedicated language activists are doing something about they have created a master-apprentice language program, a one-on-one approach that has been remarkably successful in ensuring new speakers will take the place of those, often elderly, who are fluent in an endangered language. How to Keep Your Language Alive  is a manual for students of all languages, from Yurok to Yiddish, Washoe to Welsh; complete with exercises that can—can and should—be done in the most ordinary of settings, written with great simplicity and directness by a member of the linguistics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
language: English
title: How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-on-One Language Learning
titlecomplete: How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-on-One Language Learning
genres: Language, Linguistics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 35
publisher: Heyday