Language

The Language Progress Process

December 1, 2014

We’re doing a lot of language study these days, which can be exhausting for the mind. If you have been following our prayer updates your mind may also be stretched trying to figure out the levels and stages that we talk about. I hope this will bring some clarity for you. First: NTM equips tribal […]

A New Spark

November 2, 2014

When my friend Peter helped me arrange a welder to make security bars for some windows I wasn’t thinking about the language learning opportunity. Our study is culturally-derived and experience-oriented. That basically means that we not only learn by doing common things with people, but we discover what we need to learn the same way. […]

Burned in Translation

September 20, 2014

This poster I saw at church shows the importance of accurate translation into the heart language – in this case mine (English). In addition to grammatical issues and metaphorical issues (did they mean ‘Let the fire burn us’?) an english speaker unfamiliar with church lingo could get some very wrong ideas about what this poster […]