|
U start here.... |
|
|
|
Y learn this? |
|
|
|
Mul-T-lingual Hero |
|
|
|
What's U-r name? |
|
|
|
What can I do 4 U? |
|
|
|
Where U from? |
|
|
|
What R U making? |
|
|
|
I thank God for U! |
|
|
|
Skyz the limit ! |
|
|
|
U all R...! |
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||
|
|
|
| ||
Y learn this?
Hopefully to bring many smiles to faces.
Yours and someone elses.
When you learn, you gotta laugh at your mistakes together!!
You may not know the reasons why God wants you to learn a particular language. The "Multilingual Heros" stories give you clues.
Encourage children and see God work! --
Can you imagine a new boy or girl who speaks another language sitting beside a person you taught these skills to in his/her school....
Can you imagine that you can help a grandchild, who does not speak their heritage language any more or badly, to communicate with their grandparent?....
Can you imagine meeting a foreign traveller, after these lessons?..........
There are spiritual reasons, reasons of the mind and reasons for the well-being of your body.
There's help! A practical example for your body...it certainly needs water for survival:
When you are thirsty, you can say words Jesus himself said when he was thirsty and indicate politely,
"I'm thirsty." Then you might truly quench your thirst, even in "Samaria".
The surprise is what you'll get!
With Bible wordings you can learn to communicate something when you travel in exotic places, even if it's Shona or Turkish. Just track down that kind of Bible and have your own handy for comparison.
Another example for your mind...
Who is exempt from learning a second language for marks at school anyway?
Haven't you been able to write a coherent sentence yet? Well...imagine writing a first draft of an "essay" in your second language class for "marks" all on your own!
Well,...first find easier sentences that fit your topic in your Bible and find and compare them in the other language Bible with your own. Use your God-given smarts and a "concordance" that helps you by listing sentences by key search words! Then adapt the words using all your language learning materials. Ex. If you find --Jesus wept. = Jesus kamen die Tränen. (German), you could change that to use in one of your stories. Then Napoleon wept. = Napoleon kamen die Tränen. To get the "mistakes" out, ask your teacher to help you fix the first draft. You'll probably get some marks for effort!
Make sure that your "topic" is kinda covered. Normally, robots and anything futuristic will not be described in a sentence on its own. But then again...a flying spaceship could be adapted from Ezechiel. Or the workings of a bicycle with spokes and axle! Something about daily life is safer. There are many verses about daily life--trees near streams with running water, sheep on pastureland, buying and selling (the Cave of Machpela)...looking for something lost, like a coin, building projects...eating and fishing....
Examples for your spirit to soar: Don't you think loving communication is in God's plan for you right from where you are at the moment? Sometimes that means communicating in new ways.
No more "foreign" grandmother who doesn't understand, "You know that I love you".
No more new friends who can't understand you at all.
No more blank pages since you can learn to write "something" understandable in a letter to an international pen-pal in his/her own language and help him/her to learn English.
You can have a plan to find out what the person with the strange melodious voice is about.
You can communicate a little "on your own" with the family of an exchange student.
You can cheer up the isolated, immigrant patient at the doctor's office or hospital who is "away" from compatriots. "Don't be afraid..." can help the frightened.
You can show God's plan to someone else....
Well,...just learn to "quote" Bible verses in other languages by finding and showing them!
There are also gifts of speaking in tongues and interpreting even the language of angels. Gifts for worship and practical help. Ask God for the greater gifts in Jesus Christ's name. Read the Bible. You will receive the gifts in God's plan for you.
==============================================================
Buy an XYZ Bible
Identify the language you want to learn or need, then buy a Bible in that language. Use it for comparison to Bible(s) that you can understand.
ESL students--
Please do not use a Bible with old English to learn today's English.
Here are English Bibles that are very good:
The Jerusalem Bible © 1966
The NIV (New International Version) © 1984
The Good News Bible © 1966 (and other years).
A Gideon Bible.
(a good bible)__________ © after 1960...
For reference: Use a bible in the language you know best. You can look in a bible in the other language(s) you know. It is better, if the language is modern.
For other languages Bibles:
You can get other language Bibles as well as many versions of English Bibles here.
==========
Book:Ch:Verse
To be updated...
==========
Do U know Greek?
Do you speak/know .... ? Fill in the blank as needed.
Paul, the Apostle, asked this tpye of question in Acts 21:37 about Greek and his life improved...
Sprichst/kennst Du ....(Deutsch)? - German
Parles-tu/sais-tu ....(Français)? - French
Kan du .... (Norsk?) - Norwegian
Mo hinga yanga ti _____(Sango)? - Sango
¿Sabes hablar/___......(Español)? - Spanish
You can find the basic wording in Acts 21:37 for all other languages that have a published Book of Acts or a New Testament.
Clue: Paul's quote "Do you speak Greek?" is in the much longer verse of Acts 21:37. When a language has a visual writing convention for quoting direct speech, and that is most of them, you should be able to find the wording.
Here is a plan to find out other language wordings by asking:
If you know the language name in English or in their language, say/show the key sentence substituting the language name. Go on from there.
Or if you have a Bible in a possible language, you can point to it and say in English:
Do you know ....this (pointing to the Bible)?
(The language name in English is found on the page with publishing and copyright information in most language Bibles.)
You could try the same question with other books, where you know the name of the language. And then you can buy/find a bible of the same language to find other phrases.
If your stranger (or a relative) doesn't know any language you know, using any of the 4 communication skills, you might find help with one sample writing/book/Bible for each possible language. Point to various language books, make a question face and say:
Do you speak Greek (pointing to the Greek bible), or _________, or __________, or _________, or ________, or ________.... .
If your stranger recognizes any writing, set the Bible aside and try finding other phrases in the Word of Words, so you and the stranger can communicate with minimum help from others.
***************************************************************
© 2000-current year
GGK, member of Blessed Trinity Parish Church, Toronto, ON, Canada;
@directq@ourchurch.com
Thanks be to THE Blessed Trinity.
| Site Tools |
|
|
|
|
|
Verse of the Day |
|
|
