| Anishinaabemowin Maajaamigad, Learning Ojibwe consists of a 39-page book and an audio CD. This package was published by Ningwakwe Learning Press to assist students and adults in reclaiming their traditional language. The authors Howard Kimewon and Margaret Noori are committed language educators who have combined their expertise to create an engaging tool to motivate language learners. The book is called The Anishinaabe Language, When it Leaves (Anishinaabemowin Maajaamigad), reflecting the oral history of the community of Ojibwe speakers on Manitoulin Island. The story text is set during the 1940s on Manitoulin and celebrates the returning veterans from the community and their efforts to build a hockey arena for the young people in the community. This text and audio CD offers learners an opportunity to follow along in the text while listening to the story narrated by Margaret Noori and Mike Zimmerman Jr. The book is organized with the Ojibwe language written in bold text and beneath the Ojibwe the translation of the text appears in red font. The final line is how the text would appear told in everyday English. The book contains a vocabulary list, grammar explanations and exercises, pronouns, verbs and conjunctions sections, and the entire text appears in Ojibwe only at the end of the text. |
