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Immersion Camp teaches Ojibwe language using conversation

Awanibiisaa is the Ojibwe word for “misty rain.” It might have been one of
the many words learned by the 400-some people who gathered for last week’s
Ojibwe Immersion Camp. Then again, maybe not. Because it was an immersion
camp, the focus was more on conversational Ojibwe rather than rote drills.

By: Jana Peterson , The Pine Journal
USA

Awanibiisaa is the Ojibwe word for “misty rain.”

It might have been one of the many words learned by the 400-some people who
gathered for last week’s Ojibwe Immersion Camp. Then again, maybe not.
Because it was an immersion camp, the focus was more on conversational
Ojibwe rather than rote drills.

“We had 11 fluent speakers there,” said Jim Northrup, one of four camp
organizers. “As I was showing students how to make baskets, one of the
fluent speakers was translating what I was saying. During another
presentation, we even had a conversation between two fluent speakers. So it
was more normal conversation, rather than saying: ‘This is the word for car;
this is the word for house.’”

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