Plan on visiting Thailand in 2014. Working on some details and will have more info soon. The 5 craziest parts of our Thai language learning. (A little glimpse into what it is like for us learning Thai.) http://t.co/yJR7Keiblg If I didn’t keep up with news about the weekly riots just down the road from our […]
Archives for June 2013
What makes Thai hard to learn?
(Ok, this post is really just for sympathy and pity as we try to learn this language.) Language learning is difficult because it is not enough to just learn the vocabulary of the new language and then do a word-for-word translation from English, you must learn whole new patterns of communication. And since it is […]
Stuff from Our Week
My favorite bathroom sign in Asia. http://instagram.com/p/alU3pbiUE7 10 Reasons Missionaries Should Consider Vision Baptist Missions (VBM) http://goo.gl/fb/tuvWP Claire started taking her first real steps today, and its cute. Its rainy season here. Which means, you guessed it, it rains almost every day. The Full Name of ‘Bangkok’ is the longest name of any place in […]
The Full Name of ‘Bangkok’…
…is a record holder for the longest official name of any place in the world. ‘Bangkok’ is the name that westerners know it by, but here it is known as “Krung Thep,” basically meaning, “Los Angeles” or “City of Angels.” But the official name is something much longer. Here is our language school teacher reciting […]
June Prayer Letter
Our second full month here has been very exciting. While the first month was filled with running around trying to get set up, this second month has felt far more productive. Language School(s) Language school is hard work. Our schedule right now is to be at school for reading and writing in the morning, then […]
Stuff from our Week
Noticing Animism here in Thailand. http://t.co/DnUSxiZBsv Learning our ABC's today. (ะปฏ's is my own transliteration) http://t.co/iLbC2JnpTD Oh look! They brought us some snacks! They are actually really good, but I have no idea what they are. http://t.co/dqqYkXsXYt Noticing Animism in Thailand (Part 2, Clarifying the Gospel) http://t.co/BB8m558e1G This looks like a good tool to use […]
Noticing Animism in Thailand (Part 2, Clarifying the Gospel)
(Continued from Part 1) Clarifying the Gospel How is Christianity different? When I began to think of how to communicate the Gospel clearly in this context, it was more of a challenge than I thought it was going to be. I started to notice similar elements to spiritism in my own thoughts. It is easy […]
Noticing Animism in Thailand (Part 1)
The other night watching Bangkok TV in Thai (it is good practice for learning Thai, believe it or not) we came across a show that was supposed to be scary, and it made me curious to see what a scary movie would be like here. It was pretty corny, but that is actually pretty good […]