A new way to nurture the Inuit language: train the instructors (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Nunavut January 17, 2013 - 8:11 am
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A new way to nurture the Inuit language: train the instructors*

*Pirurvik’s instructor trainees to head home with new skills*

SAMANTHA DAWSON

Pirurvik, Iqaluit’s Inuktitut language training centre, has a new goal: to
train instructors from Nunavut communities to teach Inuktitut in different
ways and in their own dialects when they return home.

The program, just introduced this year, is currently offered in Iqaluit but
is intended to make language training available across the territory on a
regular basis.

This includes communities such as Cambridge Bay, Rankin Inlet, Arviat and
Pond Inlet.

“What we need to do is bring everybody up to speed so that all the dialects
have an equal basis to start from,” said Gavin Nesbitt, the operations
director of Pirurvik.

Access full article below:
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674a_new_way_to_spread_the_inuit_language_train_the_instructors/
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