Product Description
The Navajo Sentence Machine software incorporates text and audio in a learning tool that is both educational and fun to use. It is designed to be highly interactive, allowing students to construct phrases in Navajo, record their own voices to check for accurate pronunciation, and print out their work (along with translations) for future reference.
The Navajo Sentence Machine has received a great deal of praise for its appeal to students, its linguistic accuracy, and its reliability of performance. The program includes online help to answer questions as they arise. It also comes with suggestions for instructional use, linguistic notes about the Navajo language, and complete documentation in PDF format.
The program features the recorded speech of a native Navajo speaker, Clarina Willie, who is a longtime elementary school teacher in Tohatchi, New Mexico. The project also received invaluable guidance from the late Alan Wilson, a linguist and author of half a dozen books on the Navajo and Apache languages.
Listen to the following Navajo phrase 
Over 2,000 copies of the Navajo Sentence Machine are currently being used by schools, Chapter Houses, and individuals in and around the Navajo Nation, as well the Albuquerque Public School District, the University of New Mexico, Northern Arizona University, and Fort Lewis College in Durango.
See the User Guide (PDF) for step-by-step instructions for using the software and ideas for incorporating the Navajo Sentence Machine into classroom instruction. See the marketing brochure (PDF) for more product information, including technical requirements.
For information about product versions and updates, see the Version History page.