Making Language More Accessible
Working together, we can create tools that make your language easier to access and engage with in everyday life—whether you're just beginning or already deeply involved. This might include online dictionaries, mobile apps, or interactive word-of-the-day features that help bring language into homes, classrooms, and community spaces. We can also adapt existing linguistic descriptions into clear, usable formats that make the structure of the language more understandable and useful for community teaching and learning. These resources are designed to support your goals and make language learning inviting and accessible across generations.
Digital Access
An online dictionary makes your language more accessible to learners—offering not just word meanings, but rich connections to example sentences, stories, and recordings. You control access, and shape how the language is explored and shared.
Word of the Day is a simple, powerful way to spark daily language use—whether through text, audio, or video. Each word invites learners to grow their vocabulary and stay connected to the language, one day at a time.
A website offers a dynamic, flexible space for your language—far beyond what a typical app can do. Through collaborative effort, we can build a site that brings together a dictionary, encyclopedic knowledge, lessons, and interactive tools, all shaped by your community’s goals.
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Writing & Structure Access
Whether you're working with an established writing system or refining one to better fit how your language is spoken, I offer support in shaping clear, consistent ways to represent your language in writing. We can develop easy-to-follow guides—linked to audio examples—to help community members understand and use your writing system with confidence.
Have you ever read a grammar on your language and felt overwhelmed? You're not alone—many grammars are written by and for linguists, not for communities who speak and live the language every day. Together, we can turn that technical knowledge into a community grammar or visual guides that clearly explain the bones of your language and how it works.
Pronunciation can be complex, especially when sounds influence each other within a word or phrase. We can create clear, community-based guides—linked to audio from speakers and available in print or online—to support more accurate and confident language use.
Versatile Language Access
Did I mention QR codes? I get a little overexcited about the possibilities they hold for language access. These little squares can do big things. Scan them with a phone or tablet to instantly access audio recordings, videos, or interactive materials. Add them to books to hear a fluent speaker read aloud, place them on posters for quick vocabulary practice, or stick them around the house to bring language into daily life. They're a simple way to make your language resources more dynamic, mobile, and easy to share. Imagine having a library of QR codes—each one a doorway into your language. Together we can create a QR code library linking to audio, video, and interactive resources that can be placed anywhere you desire: in books and posters, along trails and gardens, on classroom walls, or even around the home. Each scan becomes an opportunity to hear, see, and use your language in everyday moments, turning familiar spaces into vibrant places of learning and connection.