 My name is Elvis DeMonte, I'm with the Prairies to Windland Woodland Master Apprentice program. This is my first year in it and it's a really excellent program from where I started from as far as Mitchef language and cultural backgrounds and stuff. I've come a long way within the first four months. It is a really good program and I am definitely going to take it for the next two years and see how far that goes from there. In the program basically it's an everyday thing that we do. We always try and find activities that we do like doing the laundry, going out for coffee, going to a grocery store, anything basically that we can get from English to Mitchef. We're always talking, as we're doing it, we're always talking just straight Mitchef. Usually there's no English involved and then when we go back to class time we'll review everything that we've gone over. It's not always set straight, we're always doing something different just to make sure that we're keeping it interesting basically as well while we're learning and while we're teaching. I think if anything it's just basically just in order to learn Mitchef language and in order to actually get a perfect understanding of everything that actually has to come to involve with it you actually have to just do basic activities day to day things or whatever whether it's being just visiting your elder or your mom or your stepdad or whoever it may be and just sit there and just talk back and forth with just Mitchef. At first you won't understand but once you do actually get it it becomes easier and you actually have a lot more fun just going back and forth so I think if anything that's probably the main and most important thing about it. Also music as well too is a really good form of getting out the Mitchef cultural language and everything like that. I am a singer-songwriter as well. I have been for probably about 25 years or so if not more. Right now I'm kind of in the process of translating a few songs and poems as well. The songs basically I translate word for word and then basically I try and sing them so sometimes it works out sometimes it doesn't but I still try every day and I think that's important for everybody to do. All right there really is no dictionary that's per say a standardized dictionary as far as Mitchef language goes. My mother and I when we're doing the program we talk about this and all the time we talk about going back and forth and because I would like to look or look up new words and then a lot of the times I normally what I would get is I don't I can't find a Mitchef word for it but yet they didn't actually have steady set words as far as a English dictionary or standardized dictionary would go. What they did was is for every word that they didn't actually have a word for they combined words. So in other words they would say if they wanted say to get something they would have a combined word or if they wanted something or whatever it would be the way a tongue and it would be like to combine words basically kind of like the same thing. We've actually talked about this and I've actually with some of the words I kind of invent my own words or whatever NPS or AMA so that'd be Dalarama kind of style or whatever because they never actually had those words back in the day. A lot of the new words that are out today or whatever they never had those back in the day as well so therefore they didn't have an actual name for it. The future has already started as far as Mitchef language goes. If you look online or if you look in you can probably get them in any app store, Google's Play Store or anything like that you can get Mitchef app dictionaries and what they will do is they will allow you to input English words and they will allow you to give Mitchef words back. The only problem is though is they're not standardized so therefore what will be maybe a one word to one it may be a little bit different to another as far as as far as it being whether it being a group word or it being actually a single word type style or whatever but I do believe that in 10 years they're actually going to be probably pretty close to standardizing it and it's going to be available for everybody to use. I do believe the younger generation will actually get a lot. The younger generation as we go or whatever if we even get one person one younger person that's going to be learning at least two to three words within a week a month or whatever it's still progress and in 10 years I think if we even get a few people will grow from there by the time 10 years comes though I do believe that I will be ready for that and go from there.