{"id":219,"date":"2011-02-22T17:03:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phillip-schuring\/?p=219"},"modified":"2011-02-22T17:03:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T21:03:52","slug":"language-learning-with-the-terminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phillip-schuring\/2011\/02\/22\/language-learning-with-the-terminator\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Learning with the “Terminator”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>One of the most trying things about Kaxuyana work has been that it just doesn\u2019t fit the mold of \u201cnormal\u201d tribal church planting – if there is such a thing. It\u2019s been different all around including the language learning process. In a place that speaks three languages and is re-familiarizing themselves with the one you are trying to learn you often find unexpected ways of defining words, meanings, and morphemes.<\/p>\n

<\/span>One night I went to a friends house to roast some game on his open fire and brought my language learning note pad along just in case. Turns out his family was watching the \u201cTerminator\u201d in their palm walled house and any curious passer-biers could catch a few scenes through a small open window. As I sat and chatted with my friend he began to ask me questions about the movie, like, \u201cIs it real?\u201d, \u201cIs there a man like that?\u201d And then it dawned on me that I could gather a whole slew of vocabulary that would otherwise be difficult to gather. Take for example the word \u201creal.\u201d First he asked me in Portuguese, \u201cIs it real?\u201d Following that question I could turn the tables and ask him how to say that in the tribal language and wala I had the word for \u201creal\u201d or \u201ctrue.\u201d Following that were adjectives like hard and fast from phrases like hard iron or fast truck. And so on it went. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Who would have ever guessed that the \u201cTerminator\u201d could be a help in spreading the gospel!<\/span><\/p>\n


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