My Last semester at New Tribes Language Institute was spent in the linguistics class.
This was a stretching semester. One main thing I learned through this is that my mind is not linguistically bent. However, I learned many useful skills for the future. I also had the wonderful experience of spending 6 weeks working with, learning from, and building relationships with the Cherokee people in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Here are some pictures from my time there.
This was a stretching semester. One main thing I learned through this is that my mind is not linguistically bent. However, I learned many useful skills for the future. I also had the wonderful experience of spending 6 weeks working with, learning from, and building relationships with the Cherokee people in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Here are some pictures from my time there.
My Language helper and I. We along with Jenny my language learning partner would work for 2 hours a day gathering pieces of Cherokee language, so that later we could analyze it.
We were able to enjoy the beautiful fall colors while we were there. We also had the opportunity to go to the rodeo at the state fair in Tulsa.
In order to build a better relationship with our language helpers, we would go to events that they went to. Our language helper went to the gospel singings, and so we went along too. She also sang in them, as you can see on the left. We went to a Cherokee church. This helped us get more exposure to the Cherokee language, and we got to know some wonderful people.
Although we were able to enjoy many experiences, we spent most of the time sorting, filing, and analyzing. Then when the 6 weeks were up, we went back to school and started on the 2 week analysis and write up of the Cherokee language from the data we had gathered.
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