<b>Language lessons serve future generations</b><br><br>Jul 9, 2009<br>by Ileiren Poon <br>Alberta, Canada<br><br>Edmonton-Dorothy Thunder is determined to make sure future generations - including her own daughter - have the opportunity to listen to the language Thunder learned while growing up.<br>
<br>Thunder is a Cree-language instructor with the University of Alberta's Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute. But for her, learning about Cree in an academic setting, even though she could speak it fluently, was a little disorienting.<br>
<br>"It's like doing the whole process backwards," she said. "When I learned to speak Cree in my home, I just listened and learned and spoke. It was automatic, but I didn't know there was a formal structure to what I was speaking."<br>
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