Learning Cherokee on the internet

A professor at Auburn University in Alabama created a self-instructional language learning resource for Cherokee. The site has received more than 20,000 hits or visits to date. “Some people have been using the site quite consistently for a long time,” she said. “I have found that people who have used it really like it.” Interestingly, the professor's main difficulty proved to be reconciling differences in the language amongst the various written sources in order to create her database of vocabulary.

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