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Send us a Text Message.We welcome Nishinaabemwin Bemwidood - Falcon McLeod-Shabogesic an Anishinaabe from Nipissing First Nation to Enweying. We're excited to share his stories of his second language learning experiences, educational pathways he's paved as an Nishinaabemwin educator to embedding language into the sinews of daily life as a parent passing down his heritage language. https://www.youtube.com/@falconmcleod-shabogesic790linktr.ee/enweying.oursoundMany people have reached out t...

Send us a Text Message.This episodes topic mostly cover what we’ve been up to since the last seasons releases. We experienced a global pandemic which changed many things in our day to day life. Our children are older and the family has grown together through the natural changes of life as we navigated the Covid era. This episode covers updates with the transitions of life and how Mshkogaabwid overcame a period of time where speaking was too painful, and the way she found her way back to tryin...

Send us a Text Message.In this final episode of Season 1, of “Enweying - Our Sound” we reflect on our families’ journey since creating the podcast the feedback we have received since creating it and the emotions brought on with this podcast moving across Turtle Island through this “big spiders web.” We share some moments we are grateful for as we created this podcast and how it has helped us for the better moving forward as a family in our Anishinaabemowin Immersion household journey.In sayin...

Send us a Text Message.FULL Interview with Kate Adach from CBC. 18 Minutes of this interview was broadcasted on CBC’s Program: Unreserved, as well as through CBC Indigenous. In this 53 min interview solely with Mshkogaabwid Kwe (Emmaline) hear the more in-depth answers Emmaline shares and digs deeper into her and Ozaawaa’s (Monty) backstory as a couple. We speak on normal challenges we face as a family, facing a pandemic as well as raising our children in a Anishinaabemowin-I...

Send us a Text Message.This episode we opened up a bit more about our past and our family dynamics. We discuss what it was that drove us to have this life, how our families felt about it, barriers we face connecting with Anishinaabemowin First Speakers, and being noticed within community while speaking. We cover sharing our journeys with our families, how we maintain immersion in an English world, tips and stories, and who has impacted us along the way. A lot of laughs and cries in this episo...

Send us a Text Message.In this episode, we talk about why children should learn grammar...kind of. We give our reasons in how and why children and adults need to learn the grammatical aspects of the language. We also discuss why adults need to know the more technical aspects of Anishinaabemowin and how we share our knowledge of 'grammar patterns' with our children. We talk about the importance of us as learners, reading to our children. We debunk an aspect of the language learning myth t...