{"id":1594,"date":"2021-10-20T04:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T09:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2021-10-20T04:11:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T09:11:07","slug":"culture-and-language-acquisition-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2021\/10\/20\/culture-and-language-acquisition-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture and Language Acquisition: A Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2021\/10\/tofu_cuisine-600x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2021\/10\/tofu_cuisine-600x451.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2021\/10\/tofu_cuisine-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2021\/10\/tofu_cuisine-125x94.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2021\/10\/tofu_cuisine-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2021\/10\/tofu_cuisine-336x253.jpg 336w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/files\/2021\/10\/tofu_cuisine.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>How many of you like to play games?\u00a0 As I sit with my language helper, I feel like that\u2019s often what we\u2019re doing.\u00a0 I try to get him to understand something without using one of our shared languages, or he tries to get me to understand without using one of our shared languages.\u00a0 Sometimes it feels like the game \u201c20 Questions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susie\u2019s turn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fields near my house in \u201cwhite people\u2019s land,\u201d farmers grow corn and _____.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can eat it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Women sell it here in plastic buckets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is triangular-shaped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They sell it for 100cfa (20 cents) each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s like meat, but it\u2019s not meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, after giving my clues a few times so that he understands them well, he correctly guesses: soy=tofu!&nbsp; (There is one word for soy and tofu here.)&nbsp; It helps when I know enough of the culture here in the city to be able to give him relevant clues.&nbsp; I get a bit disappointed, though, since in this case the word in My Language is just borrowed from Jula and French.&nbsp; I guess I could have skipped the game and just used the word I knew.&nbsp; Oh well, it was good practice in using My Language, anyway.&nbsp; And now I know that they just use the French\/Jula word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Onto the next game . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many of you like to play games?\u00a0 As I sit with my language helper, I feel like that\u2019s often what we\u2019re doing.\u00a0 I try to get him to understand something without using one of our shared languages, or he tries to get me to understand without using one of our shared languages.\u00a0 Sometimes it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}