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There are several ways ​to get involved with the Dasserghi Kernewek project:
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Ken
  • How did you learn Cornish?
    Firstly from Nance's 'Cornish for All', and Caradar's (A.S.Smith's) 'Cornish Simplified'. More recently with Hilary Shaw and her course books 'Kernewek Lowen'.
  • Why did you learn Cornish?
    Interest originally stimulated by teachers when I was a war evacuee in Cornwall 1940-44. (at Summercourt, and St. Ives.)​
William
  • My mother ... had Cornish language lessons at Trythall School in about 1918 from her teacher Mrs. Williams (wife of Joseph Harding Williams the head of the school) and kept a notebook (now sadly lost) of words, grammar, and expressions. [My mother] taught me as a child in turn the numbers as onen dew try padger pemp way say ay now deck.

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Language volunteer

Are you a fluent Cornish speaker? ​We are looking for people to conduct interviews with prominent members of the Cornish language community. We also have over sixty existing recorded interviews with people discussing the Cornish language, which need translating and summarising. 
Full Oral History training will be provided as part of the project.
    If you have an interest in becoming a language volunteer, we would love to hear from you.