Year 1 Curriculum

Teach Yourself Northern Chinook Jargon (Year 1)
By David Douglas Robertson, PhD

Tlahowyum! “Hi!” Year 1 will focus on giving you basic conversation skills.

Year 1 Curriculum

The Teach Yourself Curriculum was created thanks to funding from the Vadon Foundation, the Alqi Legacy Foundation and the Global Civic Policy Society. Much gratitude to the Board Members of Global Civic for their longterm support. Thank you to Jay Powell who inspired us by writing the first curriculum for BC Chinook Jargon in the early 1970s!

 

Audio (8:23) – Teach Yourself Chinook Jargon – Year 1 Curriculum

 

Individual Lessons and Supplementals can be downloaded separately below. Or, you can download the complete 10 lessons plans (161 page PDF).

Lesson Supplemental
p1-2 Title page and Introduction (2 page PDF) n/a
p.3-4 BEFORE WE GET STARTED: Here are 11 words we’ll be using (2 page PDF) n/a
p.5-6 Lesson Plans List (2 page PDF) n/a
p.7-9 Lesson 1: All about Chinook Jargon; greetings; question words; interjections (3 page PDF) p.10-11
p.12-16 Lesson 2: Vowel sounds; yes/no questions; pronoun YAKA; preposition KOPA; adverb WUHT (5 page PDF) p.17-18
p. 19-25 Lesson 3: Consonants that English also has; the rest of pronoun YAKA; “this/that” OKOK; verb CHAKO; simple commands; Indirect Objects and more; more KOPA senses; TUMTUM emotions; “be-there” (7 page PDF) p.26-28
p.29-35 Lesson 4: Indigenous consonants; plural personal pronouns; “silent IT”; helping-verbs “want” & “know how”; adverb KAKWA; verbs aren’t marked (7 page PDF) p.36-41
p.42-47 Lesson 5: Spelling tricks; introducing hypothetical POOS; ILEP comparative / superlative; more family members including kids; “exist” & “live at”; silent “IT/THEY” is limited to objects / subjects (it can’t be with prepositions) (6 page PDF) p.48-55
p.56-62 Lesson 6: Chinook Peipa vowels; bigger numbers; “everybody”; question words = indefinites; “come BC” and “go store”; “they” = Passive; “little long time” & “un-long time” (7 page PDF) p.63-71
p.72-77 Lesson 7: Chinook Peipa straight-line consonants; numbers; motion for a purpose; silent “and/or”; “too/excessively” (6 page PDF) p.78-89
p.90-97 Lesson 8: Chinook Peipa curving consonants & dot “h”; SKOOKUM adverb; adverb positions; motion verbs including TL’AP (KOPA); time adverbs; numbers above 10; TUMTUM ‘think’; quantities first! (8 page PDF) p.98-112
p.113-121 Lesson 9: How to put Chinook Peipa letters together; noun + pronoun YAKA/TLASKA possession; X-TOWN/Y-ILAHI; more TILIHUM “people”; more TANAS- “little” (9 page PDF) p.122-138
p.139-143 Lesson 10: Chinook Peipa tricks; “give” (and give back) & “send” p.144-161