Interview · North Dakota · Dan Jerome · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Language & revitalization, Listening & observation, Children & young people
Learn About questions
What are the official languages recognized by the State of North Dakota?
How many indigenous languages are spoken in the State of North Dakota?
Learn From questions
What is my experience speaking with people whose first language is something other than English?
Have I ever assisted someone who needed help, but did not speak English?
What challenges/opportunities present themselves when communicating with someone of a different language?
Transcripts
Michif Language with Dan Jerome NDNAEU 7
Watch this interview on YouTubeThe language itself it’s it’s a jar gone between they were the cree language in and Ojibwe language and French and English and that’s all it’s all put together I know when I tell my kids say they have it’s a jargon it has even English in there I don’t I’ve never seen it Andrea so I asked them one time look at their had they have of what they call a niche of dictionary and they go looking at AIESEC oh look up the word broke and it says busty and there see that’s the thing that’s the English part of it but there is love there you find a lot of English in it so what you have to listen closely if you want to make all the words oh my sister went all the way to California my younger sister she’s not with us anymore but she was in California and you know we it was common in the house yet to use different things with the mischief language are the French language and we used to say is the word search him for one of the best ones and see or she was in California and she went to the big supermarket wanted to get some she said I just felt a hunger for so jumps so she went in the store and she asked I couldn’t find an in she was ask the attendant say do you have any search terms around here and he’s what it’s search opes well how do they look and she said oh she started describing him they’re they’re round or like this bump is big and he said they’re kind of purplish on the top and it’s uh it’s a roots prophecy and he says is it a carrot no it’s not a carrot and so she finally you go over there are some seeds over that way you go you find it there and he said you come back and tell me and she says I saw that sutram there it’s a rutabaga see so he was but I mean that’s used to affect all the kids these guys still get a big charge of choke you know what a choke is okay it’s a it’s a in French it’s took it’s a cap without a palate or visor so that’s what that but they still get a big charge out of it is stalking if a stocking cap I’ve got the big pom-pom on the bottom you know at the top I should say
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