{"id":201,"date":"2012-06-07T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=201"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:16:47","slug":"parlez-vous-francais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2012\/06\/07\/parlez-vous-francais\/","title":{"rendered":"Parlez-vous francais?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parlez-vous fran\u00e7ais?\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 Now I officially <em>do<\/em> know French!\u00a0 I know, I know, I already knew French before.\u00a0 But two weeks ago I had my &#8220;official&#8221; French test that I needed to take before heading to West Africa.\u00a0 And it said that I was at level &#8220;capable-mid.&#8221;\u00a0 That means that I know a bunch of French but am not quite fluent.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s a great level to be at when I&#8217;ll get to West Africa to start life there.<\/p>\n<p><em>But I thought you were planning on translating the Bible into a language that isn&#8217;t written yet.\u00a0 Why do you need to know French?\u00a0<\/em> Great question.\u00a0 Those are my plans, but I have to know French, too.\u00a0 French is spoken in most of the bigger cities in West Africa, so I&#8217;ll need to be able to speak French to connect with the local church in a big city.\u00a0 Then hopefully someone in the village where I&#8217;ll move to will speak some French, and that will make learning that language easier.\u00a0 Clear as mud?\u00a0 It&#8217;s easier to explain in person, so if you want to know more, let me know by clicking on the &#8220;contact&#8221; tab above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parlez-vous fran\u00e7ais?\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 Now I officially do know French!\u00a0 I know, I know, I already knew French before.\u00a0 But two weeks ago I had my &#8220;official&#8221; French test that I needed to take before heading to West Africa.\u00a0 And it said that I was at level &#8220;capable-mid.&#8221;\u00a0 That means that I know a bunch [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","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=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}