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A video lesson
Led by a teacher who speaks the language at home, in their own community, and filmed on their territory. Captions in English. The video does the linguistic work so that you can concentrate on running the room.
The Founder
A certified teacher
who also makes films.
Wahbi Zarry, B.Ed.
Teacher · Filmmaker · Language Advocate
Wahbi Zarry is Francophone, a certified French teacher, and a documentary filmmaker. His teaching qualifications cover Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Quebec and Great Britain. He was born in Casablanca, spent a long stretch of his life in France, and earned his Bachelor of Education at the University of Regina. For about ten years now, he has gone back and forth between the classroom and the camera.
His classrooms have rarely stayed in one place. He has taught in Canada, in Ukraine during the war, in Thailand and in Colombia, which is to say on five continents over a single career, and that international experience is the reason this project exists. He is interested in Indigenous languages everywhere in the world, from the plains of Saskatchewan to the Amazon basin, from the Sámi lands of the Arctic to the Māori of Aotearoa. Saskatchewan is simply where he began.
His two documentary films on Canada's First Nations, 10 Days of Cree (2020) and 10 Days of Nakota (2022), have together won thirteen awards at international festivals, from India to the United States, Mexico, France, Greece and Italy.
Canadian Languages is the next step, and it is the teaching resource he wishes someone had handed him when he was preparing his first lessons in a Saskatchewan classroom: something he could open, print and teach the same week, built with the community it comes from, lined up with the curriculum he was already supposed to cover, and free for anyone who wants it.
"10 Days of Cree is a fine example of reconciliation in action." Thomas Chase, President, University of Regina