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Nintendo scores for native language

iPad application also on its way to support learning License

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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