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<\/p>\nThe Linguistics students were asked to speak to the other students here regarding their experience with the linguistics training that came to an end in December. We decided to share with you what they had to say.<\/p>\n
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Josh:<\/strong> After taking the qualifying aptitude pretest I had this huge confidence but I learned pretty quickly in the actual program that I\u2019m one of these guys that is good at Linguistics but has almost no tolerance, no patience for it. I thought \u201cHow am I going to make it through this thing. Lord, this is a marathon\u00a0and I\u2019m already giving up at mile 1.\u201d But the Lord reminded me of a very important biblical truth that self-control and patience is the fruit of the spirit. \u201cSelf-control, patience and endurance is something you have to trust me for\u201d so at the 6 week mark I was like: \u201cOK, Lord here we go. Day 1. I\u2019m trusting you for the self-control. You kind of have to meet me here Lord because I\u2019m not going to make it.\u201d Day 2 \u2013 \u201cTrust in you.\u201d Day 3 \u2013 \u2026 I look back now at the end of the training and I can sit at the desk for 10 hours a day and I know \u201cWow, Lord anything more than 2.5 hours can\u2019t be me.<\/p>\n One of the things I learned the most about in this course is team work. I had an awesome team and I look back on it and say we went through Cherokee (Our time in Oklahoma) pretty smoothly. A lot of our crucial team members who were on our Cherokee team and in the Linguistics class were the ones who were willing to assume that the other people were coming from good motives\u2026 When we would run into an issue, there were certain key players on our team that were encouraging the rest of the group to give people the benefit of the doubt. \u201cMake allowance for each other\u2019s faults\u201d so to speak as Colossians would say. The biggest thing that I learned about Linguistics at a team level is that \u2013 the grease that smooths the gears often is just the willingness to step into a conversation and assume that the other person is coming from good motives.<\/p>\n Carissa:<\/strong> One of my favorite things was to work with Josh (her husband is in the picture next to her) \u2013 we got to work together \u2013 bounce ideas off each other and realize that our strengths and weaknesses are in very different places. The areas that he is really strong, I\u2019m weaker and some of the areas that I\u2019m really strong, he is weaker. It\u2019s so cool being able to go through that learning process together and realize how we can complement each other better<\/p>\n One of the hardest parts for me was adjusting to parenthood while taking linguistics. After I had our baby I really wanted to keep doing all the work and still be a really good linguistic student. But I realized that I needed to trust God to being able to scale back and say \u201cOK I\u2019m going to work on it a certain amount of time and after that I need to walk away from it and just be a mom.\u201d<\/p>\n Rachel:<\/strong> I decided to take Ling because I really felt like it was going to help me to get better at things I wasn\u2019t good at. There is a lot in language and grammar that I\u2019m not good at. Especially grammar \u2013Now that I\u2019ve taken it I really can\u2019t imagine going overseas without having some of that heads-up on how a language works.<\/p>\n The linguistics course helps to break the language into parts and into pieces and you can see the things you know, what things you need to find out, and you can have tools as how to target those things. And you really are going to be a lot more efficient in language learning and even in putting the pieces of language together.<\/p>\n Other things that were really helpful was learning how to work the software. There is so much software that makes language learning and linguistics so much easier and so much more efficient than it was even a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n Candice:<\/strong> I\u2019m not a linguist but I\u2019m married to one. I\u2019m a Ling wife. Stephen is OK with me saying that he did not do well on the qualifying aptitude Ling pre-test at all. He is not naturally wired for Ling and so doing Ling was hard for him. But we would never trade the experience for the world. As he went through the work he said \u201cI don\u2019t know how we could have went to the tribe and written down a language without the Ling training.\u201d This kind of training has such eternal value and such great worth for what you are going to be doing in the tribe.<\/p>\n Andrew :<\/strong> We got to learn to figure out what goes into a language and how do you put it together. We learned to figure out where in the language puzzle (to use a puzzle as analogy) are the edge pieces, what is the front, what is the back.\u00a0 Ling taught me how to start to organize.<\/p>\n I also found that in those 8 weeks during the practicum my wife and I (my team, all of us) put into practice almost every single course that we took during the Missionary Training. It wasn\u2019t just about linguistics it was actually about life and it was about the whole church planting program.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Linguistics students were asked to speak to the other students here regarding their experience with the linguistics training that came to an end in December. We decided to share with you what they had to say. 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Col 3:13<\/h2>\n