Castel’s English-Cree Dictionary and Memoirs of the Elders. Part 2/4

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Publisher: Brandon University Northern Teacher Education Program Publication date: 2001/2006 Pages: 1144 Format / Quality: MP3 / 128-192kkps ISBN: 0-9689858-0-7/0-9689858-2-3/0-9689858-7-4/0-9689858-8-2This collection of Woods Cree material was compiled primarily as an aid to bilingual speakers of Woods Cree and English, especially educators working within the school system. It is based on the Cree of Pukatawagan but will be understood easily by speakers of the th-dialect living in other communities. Because translation is an ongoing concern, the first section goes from English to Cree. Later, in the Memoirs of the Elders, copious authentic Woods Cree narratives are provided, with interlinear translation and free translation. The collection is, above all, to be an unabridged Cree resource for adult learners. Selection and adaptation will be necessary to create materials appropriate to particular age and grade levels. The entries of the English-Cree Dictionary are English utterances in full sentences and short contexts, expressed also in Woods Cree. Because Cree verbs and nouns are inflected, most of them require affixes for complete meaning. For nonnative speakers, a serious problem with existing Cree dictionaries is that they are mainly lists of particles, stems and third person forms; another is that the currently available Cree dictionaries represent other dialects.