Amid worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a
group of dedicated language activists are doing something about it: they
have created a master-apprentice language program, a one-on-one approach
that has been remarkably successful in ensuring new speakers will take
the place of those, often elderly, who are fluent in an endangered
language.
How to Keep Your Language Alive is a manual for students of all
languages, from Yurok to Yiddish, Washoe to Welsh; complete with
exercises that can--can and should--be done in the most ordinary of
settings, written with great simplicity and directness by a member of
the linguistics faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.