Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program Releases Navajo Language Software (fwd link)

[Mary Hermes]

Aaniin Keola,
Glad you approved "-)
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Mary Hermes, PhD
Associate Professor of Education
Eni-gikendaasoyang:  Center for Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization
University of Minnesota Duluth
715-462-4230



On Aug 25, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Keola Donaghy wrote:

> Mahalo e Mary, I was just about to reply to this myself, but you beat me to it ;-)
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> The cost and a lack of flexibility in the order in which the lessons are presented were our major concerns and reasons we never did a Hawaiian version.
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> Rosetta does have a detailed list, brochure and cost estimates that describes the program, anyone interested should contact them directly for it.
> 
> Keola
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> On 2010 ʻAu. 25, at 11:36, Mary Hermes wrote:
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>> I did look into this, before the endangered language initiative, this is what they charged and how it played out:
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>> Level one was a bit over $100,000, for level two something like $225,000 (this is the level they recommend going to) and level three another $100,000. You provide the content, they develop it into the product, you get 1,000 copies of the CD/DVD. I believe the group that does this gets to keep the IP on all of this, and you can always buy more of the CDs/DVDs for a price, don't remember if it was specified. 
>> I will attach the cost estimates.
>> A few years ago they offered "endangered language" competition, and then must have had a grant and did it for much less.
>> This is the first finished product I have heard of. They had five tribes or so they granted, not sure about this.
>> 
>> In an effort to be transparent and disclose....
>> We made a similar product Ojibwemodaa!  Through Transparent Languages (Claire you may know them, they are based in Nashua NH)
>> We are independent, Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia, non-profit. As an indigenous non-profit, our version is done for much less than estimates I am sending. Of course, we do not have any marketing budget, so we are completely unknown!
>> We are just starting to work for other tribes, starting with the Menominee -- and doing a bare bones run for just 2-3 minuet immersion movies in the software.  We'll have a good cost estimate when we finish something for them.
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>> Mii sa i'iw minik<RosetaStoneELP.pdf>
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>> Mary Hermes, PhD
>> Associate Professor of Education
>> Eni-gikendaasoyang:  Center for Indigenous Language and Culture Revitalization
>> University of Minnesota Duluth
>> 715-462-4230
>> 
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>> On Aug 25, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:
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>>> Interesting arrangement certainly.  Thnx Claire, Phil
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Phil,
>>> As I understand it, Rosetta is doing this for free as long as there is
>>> a community commitment to providing the source materials (and they
>>> need to demonstrate they can do so). Rosetta provides a certain amount
>>> of recording and editing time, the prompts, and the software, and
>>> funds the travel for the sound engineers to visit the community.
>>> This is a total guess but I would guess that would run to $50,000
>>> easily, probably more, since it would be billed at professional hourly
>>> rates, not academic linguist rates.
>>> Claire
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> -----
>>> Claire Bowern
>>> Associate Professor
>>> Department of Linguistics
>>> Yale University
>>> 370 Temple St
>>> New Haven, CT 06511
>>> North American Dialects survey:
>>> http://pantheon.yale.edu/~clb3/NorthAmericanDialects/
>>> 
>> 
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> Keola Donaghy                                           
> Assistant Professor of Hawaiian Studies 
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> University of Hawai'i at Hilo           http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/
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