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D: Hey, Christine!
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So first off, I'm proud of us
for getting YouTube working.

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(Laugher) We've really come far this year.

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Well, yeah.

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So thank you all for joining us today.

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We're just going to quickly go over

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the language Revitalization
accelerator applications.

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So the Language Revitalization Accelerator
is a now annual cohort program

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that Wikitongues puts together.

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Each grant recipient receives $ 2000 U.S.

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They also have access
to the Wikitongues network.

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So linguists and other people
on the advisory council

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and then webinars and certain
networking events throughout the year.

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This year we'll be funding
around 20 or up to 20 projects.

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So we want to take some time to go over
what we look for in grant applications,

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how we've chosen successful
grant applications in the past

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with some examples for you,

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and then we'll take some time at the end
to answer any questions that you have.

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Cool! Do you want to kick us off, Daniel,
and talk about what we look at,

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from like a general top-level perspective
and we go through all the applications?

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D: Absolutely.

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The goal of the language
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is to make it easier for people to launch

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their own language
revitalization projects,

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their own mother tongue projects
in their communities.

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And the challenge with that
is we're basically standardizing something

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that cannot be too standardized
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because every community
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and language revitalization takes
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one of the things that we're trying to do
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as well as an urban-rural diversity
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so that we're sure that our approach
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can apply to as many different
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the more different kinds of
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we have in the accelerator,

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the better we can
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So even though we don't have
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for each continental region,

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we are trying to make sure that every year
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We want to make sure that we have
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we're interested in projects

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that are framed in a long-term context.

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One of the first questions is what do you
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is generational and you are not going
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which is a slice of a generation.

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And then that can be broken down
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because the accelerator lasts one year.

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This is why the next question is
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between April 2023 and April 2024?

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And so projects that aren't
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but instead, focus on one thing
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we can more confidently help someone
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If you're trying to build a dictionary
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to pair you with a linguist
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build a dictionary of your language,

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develop a grammar sketch
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than you alone going around
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that language revitalization
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it's important to think about how
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in the context of the long-term
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that very explicitly engage
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And one other I would add
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"Do I need to be a speaker
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So we do prioritize mother tongue
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So if the language is your mother tongue,
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Or if the language is one
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that you do not have
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or it's not taught in the school
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We will prioritize those applications.

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But that's not to say that you can't apply
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We've had a lot of people
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One person in our cohort this year is not
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but works closely with the community
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that he's working with.

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then we recommend partnering
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so that you can build out
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that Daniel was mentioning before.

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has to be led by the community
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but if you haven't already partnered
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and demonstrated that they want your help,

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then you can confidently say you're going
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So to give some examples, we chose
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and show you examples
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So the first question that is narrative,

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a long tax writing out is: “What is 
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So this person last year
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but really covered their background

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and what they've also been doing
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over the past year.

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So they wrote, I am the youngest for
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and I'm a language
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I've learned it from my grandmother
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I'm also a Ph.D. candidate
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I redacted all information throughout this

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so we're not putting anyone on blast,
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And they've successfully graduated
since then. So congrats!

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I have documented about 1600 hours
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with about 100 speakers.

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tells us about their relationship
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because they learned it
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potentially a mother tongue.

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and they've done their own activism
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The next question is: “What are
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As Daniel mentioned, this is not something

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We know $2,000 can only go so far

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Maybe we have other grants or people
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So I put two examples here of last year

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and we don't have
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But the first one says:
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we're planning to compile and publish
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and its textbooks over 2 to 5 years.
Here are our goals over 5 to 10 years.”

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This person during their one
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and they gave very specific
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So this long term language goals
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and it says, To revitalize our language,

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So someone for this year's cohort wrote,

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is to collect and revitalize the names
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with the help of community members
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And they gave us a very specific metrics.

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So as Daniel mentioned at the beginning,
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So if you want to compile
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with X amount of words
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Your projects might change over the course
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But if we have some type of metric that
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to not have too much on your plate
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So in your application for
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and that helps us give a benchmark

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So how will you achieve
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The curriculum will be incorporated
into the educational programs

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at five schools
in these communities in our region.

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So again, we have some good metrics.

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We also know the timeline,
"summer and fall",

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and then they go through
each of the seasons

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throughout this one year cohort
and what they'll do during those seasons.

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So in the summer they're going
to again using the curriculum.

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There will be workshops where parents
will be separated into these ….-structured

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ethnographic focus groups,
and they created these interviews

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that were then transcribed to collect
data during the teaching year.

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During the regular session, the teachers
then will incorporate those lessons,

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focusing on a certain amount
of hours per week,

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and then we'll implement stuff
from these focus group interviews

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and it continued on throughout the winter
and next spring and summer.

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And then lastly, we ask about other
attempts to revitalize your language.

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Are there a lot of
other projects going on?

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Are there no projects going on?
If there are a lot other projects?

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Why does your project stick out
or why is it filling a gap

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that's been opened
with other revitalization projects?

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So this person approached this

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by talking about other revitalization
at times that have been ongoing.

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So they wrote, There have been several
attempts at documenting our language.

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However, much of this documentation
was only accessible to academics,

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not for providing resources
to the community.

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So it goes and shows us why their project

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will stand out compared to other projects
in the past and why it's really needed.

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"Our language was traditionally
spoken all along the area …"

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that I redacted (Chuckles).

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"Today, there are
less than 10,000 speakers"

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And then why their project is needed,

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"Our project is needed because ex…

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need to be able to tell our own history
in our own language

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on our own terms
and using our own resources

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that do not reside under
the authority of another institution.

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Disconnection from language
and culture means identity loss.

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So it's important that we provide
people in the diaspora

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a way to reconnect
with their cultural heritage.

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And so they continued.

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So this one really spoke to us
because they do talk

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about what other projects
have taken place, and why their is needed.

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And we get more of a story of the region

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and why this is important
to community members.

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So those are all the main questions
of the application.

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The rest are more data collecting
and about you.

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You will notice on this year's
application, we do have a question

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asif your project is related to Wikimedia.

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We have a new track
within next year's grant cycle.

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We received funding
from the Wikimedia Foundation.

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So we have a certain amount of cohort
slots allotted for Wikimedia projects

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and that can be related to a few different
areas of the Wikimedia Foundation.

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And so feel free to apply
for Wikimedia specific projects this year.

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D: And one of the reasons we worked

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with the Wikimedia Foundation 
to start this track

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is last year we received
a lot of applications

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for people who wanted to use Wikipedia
and other Wikimedia Foundation platforms

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as a language revitalization tools.

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So there were people who wanted to create
a version of Wikipedia in their language.

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And this is a very kind of unique
and specific approach

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to language revitalization
that we wanted to be able to support.

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But it requires a certain
specialized technical support

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that we didn't have last year,
but thankfully we will have this year.

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Ch: Yeah! Okay.

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I'm sure we've received
a few questions on YouTube,

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but while I go check those.

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Daniel, we got a couple of questions
on our Instagram account this morning,

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so I'll pass those over to you and then
start checking our YouTube stream.

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So one of the questions was

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'Will the cohort be available
in other languages besides English?"

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D: The cohort will be available primarily
in English and Spanish this year.

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A certain like basic level of English

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is good for being able to benefit fully
from all of the resources that we provide.

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We're working on localizing this
in more and more languages.

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So last year, this current cycle
is available primarily in English.

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Next year will be in English and Spanish.

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And we're hoping the year after that
we can add more languages.

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That said, this year we have a member
of the cohort who does not speak English.

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One of her collaborators, a linguist
working in her community, does.

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And they applied together

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and they attend
all of our cohort calls together.

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So.

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It is not necessary to be fluent
in English by any means.

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Some English proficiency will be helpful,

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but if someone else in your community
is an English speaker,

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then that is fine.

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And we're going to be offering a good deal
of Spanish language support this year.

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And in fact, if you go
to the application page

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for the Language Revitalization
Accelerator as of yesterday,

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there is also a translation in Spanish

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and you can now apply
fully in Spanish as well.

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And we will do our best to subtitle
this video in a few different languages

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so that more people have access to it.

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Ch: Yeah.

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And so if you know someone
who's interested in applying

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or would be interested
in applying, you believe,

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and they do not speak English,
please still encourage them to apply.

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We will not turn down
someone's application

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just because they don't speak English.

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They can even apply in different
languages if they need to.

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If if they don't feel comfortable
writing out their answers in English,

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or they can partner with someone
to write out those answers,

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we are very happy to have people
of all languages to join our cohort,

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but we just won't be able to provide full
translation in all the quarterly check ins

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and things like that
for certain languages.

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But we will do our best.

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Webinars we will get subtitled.

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For example, last week we had a webinar
for our current cohort members

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and it was conducted in English,

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but some of our cohort members
preferred to use Spanish or French.

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So we're currently captioning
that video in Spanish and French

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and it should be available next week
so they can play it back and watch it.

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And we are going to start incorporate
like some more live transcriptions

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and things like that.

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So there are some some
great technology to use with Zoom,

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but you will get benefit
most from the cohort

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or be able to use
all the facilities of the cohort,

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if you do have a somewhat worked

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or somewhat conversational
level of English,

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but we will adapt as necessary
and work with you

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so you can be a part of it.

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D: Yeah!

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And our long term goal is to localize this
in as many lingua franca as possible.

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So, in an ideal world, being available
in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese,

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Russian, Arabic, Indonesian, Swahili.

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But there are limitations
on that as we grow.

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So we thank you for your patience.

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If English is a challenge for you,

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we are working on this
and will improve this from year to year.

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Ch: Yeah! This past cohort, we really
tried to go all in from the beginning

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and did not realize
that live translating or live interpreting

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was more of a thing than we expected,
especially on Zoom.

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So if anyone is very good
at working live interpretation in Zoom,

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please reach out to us over email.

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I would love to talk to you about it

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and get tips on how to make that
run smoothly and navigate that.

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So if anyone has done that before,
please email us at hello@wikitongues.org

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and I would love to have your advice
and pick your way with some questions.

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Yeah, so we've gotten
some more questions.

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Someone wrote in our YouTube
channel as an example,

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"So if I applied for this,

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I'd have a much better chance
to work on Irish or Scots Gaelic

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as opposed to Manchu,
since both of the former are ancestral,

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and Manchu isn't.

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D: That really depends
on what your relationship to Manchu is.

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If you are a linguist, for example,

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working closely with a member
of the Manchu community

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who wants to revitalize their language,
and you're there to support and help them,

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you might actually have
a better chance applying

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for Manchu

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than Scottish Gaelic

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or Irish,

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depending on what you want
to do with Scottish Gaelic or Irish.

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So it really, really depends...

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Again, what's important
is a relationship to the community,

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whether that means
it's your ancestral language

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or you are working closely with someone
whose ancestral language it is.

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Right? And then also
the uniqueness of your project.

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So I think one of the challenges
that you might have in applying for Irish

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is that this is a language
that obviously needs support,

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but it's also a language that has
a lot of active revitalization projects.

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Including a national government
that supports it, right? So...

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You would have to demonstrate
a certain uniqueness of your project

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that would be relevant.

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So it really depends
on the uniqueness of each project

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and your relationship to Manchu
if it's not your ancestral language.

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But the answer is no, not necessarily.

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Yeah, so one other question we have is,
"Could this count for college stock?"

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That depends on your school.

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I don't see why not in certain situations,
that really depends on the class.

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So if you have a language documentation
class and you need to do field work,

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I'm sure you could talk to your professors
about it and get credit for that.

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In terms of like an internship,

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I don't think you could
count as an internship,

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although maybe it depends
on your where you're from.

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It depends on the country you're from

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and what the situation is with
like grant receiving a grant money

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and what the taxes are
and if there is any.

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Reason, you know, like any blockage

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between like an educational
and receiving a grant, I'm not sure.

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It really depends on where
you're based in the situation,

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but I think there is a possibility of it
getting counted as like a project

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or even being able to use the output
of what you create during this grant

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as a school project.

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There's no reason you kind
of write like you will be able

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to keep all the data for yourself,
will have access to things,

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but all the output is copyrighted

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and stays within your name
or within the community,

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whatever you create or whatever
you agree to from the beginning.

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So you can use it for other purposes also.

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Okay. And someone asked
if we could share the slides.

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Yes. There is... Let me make sure.

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Let me get that.
I think that link should work.

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So you should be able to see
a view-only version of the slides there.

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I hope that works for you.

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Okay, and one more question
someone asked on our Instagram.

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if they can apply for a project that's
focused on language normalization.

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D: So Christine and I actually spoke
about this not long before the stream.

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You certainly can apply for a project
focused on linguistic normalization

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as we understand the term
'linguistic normalization'

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is part of language revitalization.

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Because after your community
reclaims their language,

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they need to feel comfortable and proud
using their language in their daily lives.

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And in some cases, you may also want
to educate outsiders about your language.

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A really interesting example of this
is in San Francisco.

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You are starting to see signs

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in the Ohlone language
that teach non-indigenous people

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about the indigenous language
of San Francisco

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and in the San Francisco Bay area.

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And this is partly
to normalize the language,

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but also to educate people
who aren't Ohlone about Ohlone, right?

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So there are all kinds of projects
like this in Cornwall, England.

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There were efforts to get
restaurants and bars

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to put their bathroom signs
and menus and stuff like that in Cornish.

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to normalize the language
and raise awareness about it.

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So this is a part of language
revitalization in many cases,

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and we see no reason
why you couldn't apply for a project

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that was focused on normalization goals.

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Ch: Yeah! So it looks like
that's all of our questions.

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If you have any other questions,
you can send us an email.

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It's in the slides.
It's also hello@wikitongues.org.

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Or you can write us on social media:
on Twitter, Instagram,

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all of those places, YouTube,
but we're quickest to reply by email.

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So just send us an email
to ask any questions

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if you've already sent
in your application this year,

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but some ideas popped in your head
after watching this live stream,

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send us an email and we can
share your answers with you.

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And you can update them.

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We can go through one edit round

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so that you can see them
based on the questions

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that were posed in this live stream
and the answer it's received.

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Yeah, so thank you all for tuning in.

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We're very excited
to receive your applications.

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You have until January 23rd, 2023.

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There'll be lots of reminders until then
and the time deadline is 11:59 p.m. GMT.

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Of course that changes based
on where you are in the world

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by the end of the day.

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GMT is when they're due,
so we'll be sending out reminders.

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Feel free to ask any questions
about the application

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and we're excited to go through them
and see what ideas you all have.

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D: Fantastic. Thank you, everyone.

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Or in one of my ancestral
languages, Yiddish,

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"A sheynem dank!" (Thank you very much!)

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Ch: Kiitos! (in Finnish: Thank you!)