{"id":2394,"date":"2011-02-02T17:52:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T21:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2011-02-02T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T22:03:06","slug":"2394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/2011\/02\/02\/2394\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Learning for Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2403\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2403\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2403\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/2011\/02\/02\/2394\/image002-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2403\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/files\/2011\/02\/image0021-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"Making Friends\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Making Friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat we need is a <em>&#8216;Culture &amp; Language Learning for Dummies&#8217; <\/em>book!\u201d states missionary Char Hunt as she and husband Jaime, work hard at language and culture study.\u00a0 They, along with their 4 children live among the Nivacle tribal people of Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it take to learn a tribal language?\u201d\u00a0 Char asks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes <em>Attitude<\/em>!\u201d\u00a0 She answers emphatically.\u00a0 \u201cIt requires that the Nivacle people be willing to instruct us, correct us, allow their voices to be recorded, and most importantly be our friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCulture and language learning go hand in hand, and require that we, the learners, be motivated, humble (really humble), teachable, observant, organized and patient.\u201d\u00a0 Char continues.\u00a0 \u201cWe often feel like dummies, and sometimes talk like one, according to our Nivacle friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jaime shares how language, culture and relationship all collide to create a great day of learning!<\/p>\n<p>\u201c I was observing a friend as he dressed an animal after a successful hunt,\u201d Jaime said.\u00a0 \u201cHe began to share with me, not only his language but the many cultural taboos surrounding the dressing and eating of the deer.\u00a0 Women are not to eat the meat around the hip area or it could mean a complication in childbirth. Men are not to eat the heart, as it would make the deer fearful and skittish at the sight of the hunter.\u00a0 The tail is removed carefully and placed in a safe place to insure that more deer be seen on future hunts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearning about the Nivacle language and culture is an adventure we enjoy,\u201d the Hunts claim.\u00a0 \u201cHowever we long for the day when we no longer feel like \u2018dummies\u2019, when we can converse intelligently with our Nivacle friends, and tell them why we are here among them.\u00a0 Please pray that we are learners in all things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat we need is a &#8216;Culture &amp; Language Learning for Dummies&#8217; book!\u201d states missionary Char Hunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}