FNLG 130 Hul’q’umi’num’ Practical Phonetics
FNLG 130 course schedule: You can find materials for each week for listening or for downloading here.
FNLG 130 Course Outline
For and introduction to the sounds of Hul’q’umi’num’, go to: https://sqwal.hwulmuhwqun.ca/learn/learning-the-sounds/
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| Week | |
| 1 | Sounds of Hul’q’umi’num’ PDF |
| 1 | Hul’q’umi’num’ Sounds: some challenging sounds PDF |
| 1 | Hul’q’umi’num’ sounds: places and manners of articulation PDF |
| 1 | Morphology_Problem1 PDF |
| 1 | Names for some creatures PDF |
| 1 | Animal scavenger hunt PDF |
| 1 | Diminutives (words for cute little things) PDF |
| 1 | Four Green Frogs poem PDF |
| 1 | xuthinuws ’uli’hwiin’ tsqway wuxus VIDEO (video will open in new tab) |
| 2 | Pronunciation test 1 : The task was to listen and repeat words in order to identify problem sounds. |
| 2 | We read Robert Rice’s story of Bear and Raven. • Go to this web page to hear Ruby Peter read this story. |
| 2 | Practiced using audacity and a yeti microphone to record. And we practiced playing audacity and transcribing a short message about the ladybug. • Go to Mom’s song about the ladybug |
| 2 | Practicing the lh sound. Some of you are pronouncing this without flattening your tongue against the roof of your mouth, and so you are producing a sound like th, with your tongue tip, instead. |
| 2 | The next poem for you to practice performing (one that will help you pronounce lh) is lhakw’ huye! Fly away!“ |
| 2 | t’i’t’ut’um’ (Little Wren) • Go to this web page to hear Ruby Peter read the story. |
| 2 | Numbers 1-20, adding and subtracting |
| 2 | Counting with classifiers. • Go to this web page. |
| 2 | Practicing counting by tens and counting money. |
| 2 | Practicing counting people. |
| 2 | Practicing language used in the longhouse for a naming ceremony. |
| 3 | Glottalized Resonants PDF |
| 3 | How to make progressives PDF Homework assignment |
| 3 | The Lord’s Prayer (Our Father) |
| 3 | Counting to four with Three Classifiers PDF |
| 3 | ’imuth, ’i’ nilh nu q’uw’u | Grandson, who is my cane: A Poem by Ruby Peter |
| 4 | Getting ready for the phonetic contest: Here are some challenging sentences for practicing consonants. |