Native American Language Courses
sahgum@aol.com
Tue, 4 Apr 1995 07:23:06 -0400
Would subscribers be intersted in knowing of the catalog available from
Audio-Forum, The Language Source, 96 Broad Street, Guilford, CT 06437?
Among its offerings of 263 courses in 91 languages are the following:
Lenape Language Lessons (3 cassettes), Let's Speak Mohawk (3 cassettes and
102-page text), One Thousand Useful Mohawk Words (158 pages), Beginning
Tlingit (2 cass. and 208-page text), Beginning Cherokee (2 cass. and 332-p
text), Choctaw (2 cass. and 60-p text), Chickasaw (2 cass. and 95-p text),
Everyday Kiowa Phrases (1 cass.), Introductory Lakota (15 cass. and 102-p
text), Breakthrough Navajo and Speak Navajo Intermediate (2 cass. and
234-p/180-p texts), and Beginning Passamaquoddy (4 cass., Dictionary, Phrase
Book, etc.).
There are also a number of video and audio tapes of songs, stories, star
lore, contemporary music and dance, "medical Navajo" for physicians and
nurses, etc. According to the catalog, native speakers are extensively
featured on all tapes; college and university linguists seem to have been
involved where appropriate. Courses are sold with a "three-week money back
guarantee if you are not completely satisfied." I know the tribal member
who directed the federally-funded project that developed the Passamquoddy
materials. The company's toll free number is 1-800-243-1234.