This page is designed to help students and followers of the Beginning Tlingit class to follow along with what we are studying in the class.
The main text we use is the Beginning Tlingit Workbook, which is based upon the amazing work by Richard & Nora Dauenhauer. This workbook takes the concepts in Beginning Tlingit and adds images, explanation, and a few more lessons for the learner.
Students should look at other Tlingit language resources, which can be found on the Resources tab of this website.
Gunalchéesh!
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Beginning Tlingit II – Spring 2020
Beginning Tlingit II 106 at University of Alaska Southeast
April 20th & 22nd, 2020 – Eating & Cooking
Quizlet Link: Food & Drink Review
Videos: Sháaxʼ Sáani — Lingít Ḵusteeyí
Homework: Eating
Quiz: Quiz 10 Eating
April 13th & 15th, 2020 – Verbs Verbs Verbs
Lesson Guide 4 Verbs Verbs Verbs
Worksheet: Pronouns
Quizlet Links: Verbs 2, Verbs 3, Future Verbs, Perfective (past) Verbs
Videos: Understanding the Tlingit Verb: Objects & Subjects
Homework: Verbs Verbs Verbs
Practice Quiz: Verbs
Quiz: Quiz 9 Verbs
April 6th & 8th, 2020 – Clans & Moieties
Lesson Guide 3 Clans & Moieties
Readings: Dauenhauer & Dauenhauer 1990 Intro, Dauenhauer & Dauenhauer 1990 George Davis Speech
Homework: Oral Practice
Quiz: Quiz 8 Beaver & Porcupine Verb Search
March 30th & April 1st, 2020 – Cultural Units & Shopping
Quizlet Links: Sewing, Carving, Cleaning
Homework: Home Vocabulary
Quiz: Quiz 7 Cleaning
March 23rd & 25th, 2020 – Traveling, Place Names & Going Places
Videos: Haa Léelkʼu Hás Aaní Ká Saaxʼú
Quizlets: Going Places 1, Going Places 2
Quiz: Quiz 6 Directionals
Mini Lesson Guidelines Updated
March 2nd, 2020 – Midterm Review
February 26th, 2020 – Family
Quiz: Quiz 5
February 24th, 2020 – Family, Weather & Time
Quiz Study Guide: Quiz 5 Study Guide
Quizlet Links: Weather, Months Seasons, Days & Times
February 19th, 2020 – Family Vocab & Verbs
Quiz: Quiz 4
Homework: Family
February 17th, 2020 – Introductions & How to Stop X̱át x̱át x̱át -ing
Quiz Study Guide: Quiz 4 Study Guide
February 12th, 2020 – Questions
Quiz: Quiz 3
Quizlet Links: What do you have/ What do you see?, Forming Tlingit Questions, Question & Answer
February 10th, 2020 – Questions Review
Quiz Study Guide: Quiz 3 Study Guide
February 5th, 2020 – Time
Guest Speaker
Homework: Time
February 3rd, 2020 – Class Discussion
January 29th, 2020 – Chapter Reviews
Videos: Jessie Johnnie on Learning Tlingit
Homework: Reflection
Quizzes: Quiz 2
January 27th, 2020 – Sounds Practice & Listening Skills
Videos: Sounds Practice with Words, Analahash X̱ʼéidáx̱ Sh kalneek — Kéidladi
January 22nd, 2020 – Intro to Verbs & Questions Review
Files: Intro to Verbs, Intro to Questions
Quizzes: Quiz 1
Homework: Body Parts
Quiz Study Guide: Quiz 2 Study Guide
Quizlet Links: Body Parts & Family, Going Places, Verbs
January 15th, 2020 – Language Revitalization Lecture @ SHI
Video: Indigenous Language Revitalization Strategies with Tlingit Professor X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell
Homework: Pronouns
Quiz Study Guide: Quiz 1 Study Guide
Quizlet Links: Nature, Village & People, Household Items, States of Being
January 13th, 2020 – Syllabus Review
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Beginning Tlingit II – Summer 2019
Beginning Tlingit II – Spring 2017
Our class meets Monday and Wednesday from 5:30–7:30 at the link below:
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May 1, 2017 – coming & going
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April 26, 2017 – kinship terms, new sentences, coming & going
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April 24, 2017 – kinship terms, sentence review with kinship terms
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April 19, 2017 – story translation, kinship terms
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April 17, 2017 – story translation, using resources, kinship
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Handout: sigeidi_xhalakach
April 12, 2017 – dialogue, body parts, feelings
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Handout: dialoge-2, dialoge-3
April 10, 2017 – dialogue listening, dialogue practice
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April 3, 2017 – birds, weather, final projects
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Handout: Xʼéig̱aa Kayaaní Dísi & time (handout)
March 29, 2017 – birds, weather, snow, placenames
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Handouts: snow, landforms
March 27, 2017 – Weather & Verb Modes
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March 22, 2017 – Handouts for March 27 & 29
Handouts: battle-of-giants, Thornton-intro
Links to placename maps: Google Maps example, Carto example,
March 20, 2017 – Preparing for Midterms & Using Verbs
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Handouts: BT-Notes-04
March 8, 2017 – Preparing for Midterms & Using Verbs
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Handouts: BT-Notes-03,
March 6, 2017 – Tlingit Elders Kaséix̱ & Shak Sháani & Weather
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March 1, 2017 – Weather & Using Verbs
Handout: BT-Notes-02
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February 27, 2017 – Noun Practice, Weather
Handout: weather & time (slideshow)
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February 22, 2017 – Pronouns, Placenames, Body Parts, Plant Parts, Landforms
Handout: body-plant-land, snow, BT-Notes-01
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February 20, 2017 – Noun Review, Wáa sá iduwasáakw?, Verbs & Objects
Handout: Prounoun & Conjugating Card
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February 15, 2017 – Shmoozing & Conjugating, Noun Review, Wáa sá iduwasáakw?
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February 13, 2017 – Sound Practice, Daa sáyá, Daa sáwé iyatéen?
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January 30, 2017 – Sound Practice & Tlingit Learning Methods
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Note: Beginning Tlingit Workbook has been updated! Check the link above.
January 25, 2017 – Tlingit Oratory
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Kaatyé (2), Naa Tláa
January 23, 2017 – Language Overview
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January 18, 2017 – Introductions & Language Overview
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Handout: Tlingit Overview 1 (slideshow)
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Beginning Tlingit I – Fall 2016
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December 5, 2016 – Finals Preparation (no recording)
Final Word list (draft)
November 30, 2016 – Useful Phrases; Names, Clans, Identities
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useful-phrases (slideshow)
November 28, 2016 – Realms of Existence; Names, Clans, Identities
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beginningtlingit-11-29 (class notes)
November 23, 2016 – Names, Clans, Identities
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November 21, 2016 – Words of Encouragement
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encouragement (slideshow)
November 16, 2016 – Names, Clans, Identities
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beginningtlingit-11-18 (class notes)
November 14, 2016 – Names, Clans, Identities
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beginningtlingit-11-14 (class notes)
November 7, 2016 – Names, Clans, Identities
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beginningtlingit-11-08 (class notes)
October 26, 2016 – Táaxʼaa, Review, Q&A Drills
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UAS Tlingit Language YouTube Channel
UAS Woosh Een áyá Yoo X̱ʼatudli.átk • Tlingit Conversation Documentation Project
October 24, 2016 –Táaxʼaa, Review, Q&A Drills
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October 19, 2016 – Táaxʼaa, lesson three, counting
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beginningtlingit-10-20 (class notes)
October 17, 2016 – Táaxʼaa, lesson three
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Handout: Táaxʼaa, noun-flash-cards (pdf),
October 12, 2016 – lesson one review, lesson two, introductions
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beginningtlingit-10-14 (class notes), beginningtlingit-10-14_2 (class notes)
October 10, 2016 – lesson two, lesson one recap
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October 5, 2016 – lesson one, lesson two
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October 3, 2016 – lesson one, lesson two
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September 28, 2016 – counting, lesson one
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September 26, 2016 – sound practice, basic phrases, lesson one
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September 21, 2016 – visting scholar Ḵeixwnéi Nora Dauenhauer
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September 19, 2016 – Sound Practice, Learning Philosophies, Daa Sáyá, Vocabulary
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Handouts: Language Learning Methods,Tlingit Learning Methodologies Slides
September 14, 2016 – Sound Practice, Daa Sáyá, Vocabulary
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September 12, 2016 – Sound Practice, Daa Sáyá, Vocabulary
Watch class • Sound Practice on YouTube
September 7, 2016 – Learning a language, Sound Practice, Daa Sáyá
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August 31, 2016 — Introduction to Tlingit, Learning Strategies, Sounds
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Handouts: Beginning-Tlingit-01 (slideshow)
Homework: 1) read Beginning Tlingit from opening pages through the end of Lesson 1, 2) read Beginning Tlingit Workbook from opening pages through “Daa Sáyá” • should be completed by next class (September 7, 2016)
Beginning Tlingit Workbook Chapters (in case the 252 page file is too large): Beginning_Tlingit_Preface,Beginning_Tlingit_0 Beginning_Tlingit_1 Beginning_Tlingit_2 Beginning_Tlingit_3 Beginning_Tlingit_4 Beginning_Tlingit_5 Beginning_Tlingit_6 Beginning_Tlingit_7 Beginning_Tlingit_8 Beginning_Tlingit_9
August 29, 2016 – Introductions & Class Syllabus
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Handouts: AKL105-syllabus, tlingit introduction, Goal_Sheet
Sources discussed: Beginning Tlingit Workbook, Tlingit Dictionary (draft), Tlingit Resources (Tlingit Verb Dictionary, Dictionary of Tlingit, Beginning Tlingit, Lingít X̱ʼéináx̱ Sá.
Beginning Tlingit II – Spring Semester
Classes can be viewed here on YouTube and the handouts for the class are listed below the date.
April 27, 2015 – Beginning_Tlingit_Final
April 15, 2015 (watch class, part two)
semester review
April 13, 2015 (watch class)
Tlʼanaxéedáḵw Shkalneegí
April 8, 2015 (watch class)
Tlʼanaxéedáḵw Shkalneegí
April 6, 2015 (watch class)
Tlʼanaxéedáḵw Shkalneegí
March 25, 2015 (watch class)
Tlʼanaxéedáḵw Shkalneegí
Handout: Tlʼanaxéedák̲w
March 23, 2015 (watch class)
review: body parts, feelings, dialogue
March 11, 2015 (watch class)
word review, putting on/ taking off, weather, body parts, conditions, etc
March 9, 2015 (watch class)
body parts, wanting/needing/having, weather
handout: Beginning Tlingit Workbook Chapter 5
handout:
March 4, 2015 (watch class)
kinship terms, body parts, feelings, wanting/needing, aches & pains
handout: Beginning Tlingit Chapter 5 (update)
March 2, 2015 (watch class)
body parts, feelings, wanting/needing, aches & pains
handout: Beginning Tlingit Chapter 5
February 25, 2015 (watch class)
Body Parts, Weather, Introductions, Dialogue Practice
February 23, 2015 (watch class)
Introductions, Basic Verb Conjugation
February 18, 2015 (watch class)
dialogue practice, introducing self, introducing others (after many minutes of technical difficulties)
February 16, 2015 (watch class)
Greetings, Introductions, Basic Verb Conjugations, Pronouns
Handout: Dialogue Practice 1
February 11, 2015 (watch class)
pronouns, introductions, kinship, weather, basic verb conjugation
February 9, 2015 (watch class)
Pronouns, Introductions, Weather
February 4, 2015 (watch class)
Review: Daa sáyá? Daa sáwé iyatéen? Independent, possessive, object/subject pronouns for 1st, 2nd, 3rd person.
February 2, 2015 (watch class)
We struggled with the phone this evening, but then were able to figure things out (the first fifteen minutes or so is the struggle). After that, we went over the set of phrases that were developed and collected by the Yakutat Tlingit Tribeʼs Mentor-Apprentice Program in December 2014. We also discussed some basics of motion verbs including a future, progressive imperfective, and perfective form.
January 28, 2015 (watch class)
Today in class we named things that fly (birds, insects) and then went over a set of phrases that were developed and collected by the Yakutat Tlingit Tribeʼs Mentor-Apprentice Program in December 2014. The handout is below.
Handout: MAP Phrases 2
January 26, 2015 (watch class)
We reviewed the material from last semester, focusing on sound practice and lesson one.
January 21, 2015 (watch class)
We reviewed the material from last semester, focusing on sound practice and lesson one.
January 14, 2015 (watch class)
Beginning Tlingit I Review
January 12, 2015 (watch class)
Introductions
Handout: AKL 106 Syllabus
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Beginning Tlingit I – Fall Semester
Class Two – class overview, sound practice (watch the class)
Handout: Updated first chapters of Beginning Tlingit Workbook
Class Three – the Tlingit language, sound practice (watch the class)
Handout: Beginning Tlingit Lesson One Noun Flashcards
Handout: Beginning_Tlingit_1
Handout: Beginning_Tlingit_2
Handout: Beginning_Tlingit_3
Handout: Beginning_Tlingit_4
Handout: Tlingit Kinship Chart (blank)
Handout: Plural Pronouns
Handout: Tlingit Clan List (draft)
Veteranʼs Day Handout: 54 Soboleff & Ramos & video link
11/25/2014 Handout: Weather Cards
Selected Words (Section 1, M–Th 12–1 pm): AKL 01 Selected Words,
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AKL105(1) words 01 (audio)
Taan T’éix̱ʼ
Naawéiyaa
Shkooyeil
Shuwuteen
Sumiq
Tsʼaxweil Du Yéet
Tutmaralria
Yei Dulitseen
Yeil Tʼoochʼ Tláa
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AKL105(2) words 01 (audio)
Sookʼ
Ḵ’eikaxwéin
Kóot X̱eech
Sʼeek
Sinakwaa Tláa
Yakdushi