Sunday, July 29, 2012

Isten Hozott!

   Isten Hozott! Literally "God has brought you" is a traditional welcome in Hungarian.  Unfortunately, the meaning doesn't really occur to the Hungarian people, according to the people we have spoken to.
This will serve as a great opening question to many people we meet when we get to Hungary.

   Our Language Acquisition Training classes are now completed.  We had the opportunity to practice learning some other languages as a 'test' of how we can learn our new language as a learner directed instruction. We are getting more confidence in how we could be directing our current language teacher in our town, of which I am sure she will be relieved!

  What we learned was how children learn languages and how to expand our American "box" of hearing and pronunciation. Children aren't burdened by the conjugation of vowels, etc..., they just LEARN what things mean (comprehension & context through repetition and kinesthetic learning), then later is the conjugation.  So, we are excited to put some of these tools into practice.
 
  After having our brains, ears and pronunciations twisted & expanded, we found ourselves worshiping at church & being aware of where & how these sounds are being pronounced! (Gosh, was that a glottal stop aspirated "g"?) Yes, we learned if it was or not!! Again, we covet your prayers as we try to keep all of this fresh  & in the forefront before we get to Hungary.


Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Language aspects..

  I saw this sign a few years ago & absolutely cracked up!  The friend traveling with me didn't get it at first, then she cracked up, too.   How differently we can view what something says from how others view WHAT something says.  I figured this would be an appropriate way to share with you the thinking when you are learning a new language, or just viewing how another thinks about language.

  Today we had the privilege to learn some Vietnamese & directions in it as a demonstration of how we can more easily learn a language the way children do.  In less than a 1/2 an hour, the entire class was following and mimicking directions from the instructor - quite astounding!  God has wired our brains SO amazingly! There is no such thing as evolution.... if there was - why don't moms have eight arms?

  We will keep you posted with our language acquisition training.... yes, it will help us learn Hungarian far more effectively than if we tried it on our own. I am excited to be putting it into practice....

Isten jol!  (God is good!)

Friday, July 6, 2012

Rhyme...

One training down, another one mo'!  Get the rest of our support in & we are ready to GO!:)

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