{"id":389,"date":"2012-08-18T14:10:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/?p=389"},"modified":"2012-10-05T13:40:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T17:40:06","slug":"it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/2012\/08\/18\/it\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/2012\/08\/18\/it\/image001\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-390\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-390\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/331\/files\/2012\/08\/image001-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/files\/2012\/08\/image001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/files\/2012\/08\/image001.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Here is an example of the Fake-It-Til-You-Make-It approach to practicing a tribal language.<\/p>\n<p>We had some out-of-town visitors in our village and I walked up to one older couple and said hi. After a bit, the conversation went like this:<\/p>\n<p>Me: (painfully) They said that you might want to borrow some blankets from me.<br \/>\nCute Old Man: Wow, you already speak tons of Nahuatl, don\u2019t you?<br \/>\nMe: A little, only.<br \/>\nCOM: (at warp speed) Something, something, something, blah, blah cold.<br \/>\nMe: It is really cold tonight, isn\u2019t it?<br \/>\nCOM: Yes, it is. Something and then something else mumble, mumble rain daily?<br \/>\nMe: A little bit ago it didn\u2019t want to rain, but now it\u2019s raining daily.<br \/>\nCOM: (with his hand over his mouth) Blah, blah, blah blah, bibbity, blah, blah cold. Something, something night. Mumble, mumble blankets when it\u2019s cold.<br \/>\nMe: We have blankets to lend. If you want one, come with confidence to the house later and I\u2019ll give you one. That way you won\u2019t be cold and it will be more pleasant.<br \/>\nCOM: (smiling happily) Something, something house later on. And so on and so forth, blah, blah, blah. Something it\u2019s good when you teach yourself Nahuatl, because of course the blah, blah, blah, and mumble something else.<br \/>\nMe: Yes, it is good to learn. We are attempting to learn. Well, I\u2019m going in now. I have to arrive.<br \/>\nCOM: Go, then. Go ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an example of the Fake-It-Til-You-Make-It approach to practicing a tribal language. We had some out-of-town visitors in our village and I walked up to one older couple and said hi. After a bit, the conversation went like this: Me: (painfully) They said that you might want to borrow some blankets from me. Cute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[1571],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-article","tag-language-learning","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}