Immersion Language Revival
We pride ourselves on collaborating with the most successful global language revival programs, then taking their models back home to first adapt to our own community, then share with our neighbouring endangered language communities.
Fluency Transfer System
We are supporting our adult educators to advance their fluency through classes and home study of an immersion curriculum called the Fluency Transfer System. This system, developed by the Salish Immersion School in Spokane US, is a comprehensively sequenced curriculum designed to support adult learners become fluent in their Indigenous Language. It is composed of six textbooks divided into three levels, as well as instructional techniques for full immersion teaching. At each level of the fluency system, there is a language book and a literature book accompanied by audio recordings and additional materials to aid in learning and teaching.
Salish Fluency Transfer Conference
On the 19th-20th June 2025, the Pertame School teamed up with First Languages Australia to invite the Salish School of Spokane to Mparntwe Alice Springs to host a revolutionary workshop. The workshop gathered an incredible group of expert and authoritative language champions, educators and advocates from a diverse range of language contexts. After the conference, there are now 25 Australian language groups using the Fluency Transfer System method to create new fluent speakers. We are proud to connect and share the most effective language revival methods globally with our fellow Australian endangered language groups
International Connections
The Pertame School embarked on the Master-Apprentice program in 2020 after two Pertame representatives were invited to New York by the Global Indigenous Language Caucus to receive training in the Master-Apprentice process. Through this training they developed international networks with the Yuchi Language Project in Oklahoma, the Advocates of Indigenous Californian Language Survival, the Sauk Language Program and the Kumeyaay Community College in San Diego.
In January 2022, two Pertame apprentices travelled to the Cherokee Nation to present at the UN International Decade of Indigenous Languages Launch Event.
Master-Apprentice Conference
In August 2022, the Pertame School hosted the first Master-Apprentice Conference in Australia. We invited 7 of the foremost First Nations experts of immersion Language Revival to Alice Springs to host 3 days of training, networking, knowledge and cultural exchange. We partnered with 6 organisations including Batchelor Institute, the Global Indigenous Language Caucus, Yuchi Language Project, Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival and the Next Steps Language Revival Project.
