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Nintendo scores for native languageiPad application also on its way to
support learning
[image: - Kathy Manuel, education co-ordinator with the Secwepemc Cultural
Education Society, demonstrates use of a Nintendo device. - Mike
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Mike Youds

Kathy Manuel, education co-ordinator with the Secwepemc Cultural Education
Society, demonstrates use of a Nintendo device.

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

BY MIKE YOUDS
DAILY NEWS STAFF REPORTER

With as few as 150 fluent Secwepemctsin speakers remaining, most of them
over age 65, the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society has come up with
software for preserving the language.

Nintendo DSi software that teaches Secwepemctsin to young children is in
the final stage of development, said Kathy Manuel, education co-ordinator
with the society.

As well, an iPad application expected to be available by Christmas holds
even greater promise in preserving the endangered language, she said.

"This one is for everybody," Manuel said on Wednesday while demonstrating
technology that will be available through the society and the B.C.-based
indigenous languages website FirstVoices.com. "The Nintendo is kid-oriented
but this is for everybody."

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