When our founder came across a study showing that suicide rates in communities reduce dramatically when individuals are connected to their language it sparked an idea: if we remove barriers to creating language content, we can give communities with at-risk and low-resourced languages the tools and platforms they need to revitalize and preserve their language.
With that, Language Foundry was created - a mission-driven, e-learning platform. We work directly with community speakers, teachers and learners to create intuitive, gamified content. Because each community leads the content development, the courses reflect their unique cultural identity, using our mix of audio, visual and text-to-speech solutions, which allow each platform to be fully customized. The result? Self-directed, community-led language revitalization.
With a language dying every 14-days and more than 6,000 languages at-risk of extinction around the world, we’re truly in a race against time.
So our goal is simple and ambitious: make language learning joyful, sustainable and scalable, while honouring each community’s unique protocols and priorities.
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Interested in joining our team? Check out our current openings here!
Whether you’re looking for more information on our curriculum, want to access tools to revitalize your language, or you’re looking to partner with us, we want to hear from you!
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Language Foundry is grateful to be creating tools that support language revitalization, while living on traditional territories that have existed for millennia. Though our team works across many lands and territories, our head office is located on the traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən People (Songhees Nation).
