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Well, 2018 didn’t quite look like I had planned, but here is what God decided that this year would look like for me: January – March – I lived and worked among My People of My Country, learning language and culture and building relationships. I was learning how My People live and joining in. In […]

As I’m working on my take-home final exam for my Discourse Analysis class, I thought I should take a break and give you a glimpse into what we’re learning. One thing we talk about in Discourse Analysis is Participant Reference. In regular-people terms, it means, “How do you introduce new characters into your story, keep […]

  Does anyone else every hear about tone (or tonal) languages, or is that just something that us language nerds hear about? I’m actually curious, because it seems to me to be something that everyone hears about every once in a while, but then I’ve heard things recently that make me rethink that assumption. So […]

  When I arrived here in Texas a month ago, I remember asking God if this was really such a good idea. I mean, my life had just been turned upside down and now here I was, only knowing 2 people in a 7 hour radius, and I didn’t even have my stress-reliever, my harp. […]

Once upon a time, a fair maiden sailed to a land far across the sea, in great hopes of sharing the best news in the world with a people yet unknown to herself. Arriving on these dusty shores, she got to work, learning how to survive. Fast forward 5 years, and all was finally going […]

Wow.  Ten graduate credits in nine weeks.  All related to what I’m doing in My Country – linguistics and translation and such.  It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun and really good, too.  And besides the 1000+ pages I read or all the papers and projects I did, I learned a […]

    Do you see these two lovely pictures? The one with 6 nice ellipses is what the vowels looked like in a language we did a recent Acoustic Phonetics class project on. The other one where it’s all a mess? That’s what vowels in My Language look like. Even if you have no idea […]

Some people learn boring things in grad school, and I guess I’ve learned some, too, but here are a few fun things I’ve learned this week: By the time a baby is 12-months-old, their babblings are different based on the language that they hear around them. I learned about the McGurk Effect, where your eyes […]

Do you see the picture above?  Can you tell what it’s a picture of?  If any of you have worked with a/v, you may recognize the top part as being sound waves, and you’d be right. The one on the left is the sound wave of a speaker saying the noun version of the word […]

  “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” (Psalm 34:18) Yesterday I received the news that on Thursday Rachida past from this world to the next. Thank you to all of you who have faithfully walked this journey with us over the past two years. And even though Rachida’s […]