Please continue to pray for our language acquisition.We are still waiting for the paperwork to be approved so that we can obtain our visas. VP and Nirmala’s (our colleagues) Visa/Entry Permits were granted this week!.Connie Lou’s new passport with more pages came back this week!.He wrote a book on this and once the dust settles a bit for us, I will have to see if I can download this book! Praises: He explained what that means and how it helps each of us deal with all the different things we deal with. David Riddell of Living Wisdom, Nelson, NZ, was the presenter and we worked through a lot of helpful information on leadership and making friends with your mind. We need to really watch our language!įriday, August 18th was a Staff Development Day that we were blessed to attend along with the MAF Staff in Cairns and also the folks from Mareeba.ĭr. What a great help that has been to hear the language spoken and read along with it!Īlthough there are many familiar or similar words, there is a tendency to “Pidginize” English words to make them sound like Tok Pisin which, does not work! Tok Pisin is an independent creole language that originated as a Pidgin. There are some words that we have been advised not to use! Some words that in English are very common and do not have a negative connotation, and yet their Tok Pisin equivalent can be offensive. The App has the entire Bible in Tok Pisin as well as an audio version of the New Testament. (Read it out-loud as the sound of it helps you understand the words.) STAT 1:1 Bipo bipo tru God i mekim kamap skai na graun na olgeta samting i stap long en.Ī few years ago, Gary and Eleanor Zweigle, from Tumwater CotN in Olympia Washington, introduced us to the Gideon Bible App that has many of the different translations of the Bible in one very easy to use App. Learning a new language is always an adventure! We are learning Tok Pisin which, is the trade language used by Papua New Guineans as there are some 800 +/- different languages in PNG! Luckily for us, Tok Pisin uses quite a lot of English and German words that are spelled slightly different but have very similar meanings to the English and German words they came from. Down Under in Australia still: Tree Tops Lodge – Guest House where we are staying in Cairns, Australia while studying language
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