Beginning January 3, 2010, our language project will broadcast a weekly pre-recorded mother tongue radio program. The Christian station with whom we have a contract has a fairly new tower which reaches up to 100km radius. That means these radio programs can be heard in at least part of every one of the 10 languages [...]
If you’ve been following my recent tweets, you’d know that I finished my first editing phase on Mark in the Vwanji language. What does that mean exactly? Glad you asked. Glad to answer.
As I’ve recorded more and more books here in the local languages, I’ve searched for my personal, best-fit method to go from beginning [...]
This is the audio I spoke of yesterday:
Nyakyusa sentence
Good news is that after listening to it, our Partnership Coordinator, a Nyakyusa pastor, said the edit was sufficient and that we don’t need to have the original Ruth come in after all. That’s awesome. Now, it’s time to plan a time for community testing to see [...]
On the way back from conference, we pass through a horrendous stretch of unpaved road between the Kenya border and Tanga, Tanzania. To give you a glimpse of why this is the most dreaded part of the conference travel every year, I asked Dana to video a short piece so that we may show you.
One morning at breakfast, this African Pied Wagtail put his charm on…
Their songs are one of my favorite of all the birds I’ve ever heard.
This is a litle piece of video I shot while waiting for our turn to pass through some road construction in Iringa.
This is the place we stayed at on our first stop on the way to conference. We liked it a lot with the exception of the short bed. It was really difficult trying to sleep diagonally. FYI, I’m 6′3″. The room was Tsh. 50,000.
No matter what you call it, I have finished seven of them. The radio station is scheduled to cycle through the set playing one at 7am and one at 7pm everyday for a month starting today. Here’s a summary of what you can hear in the ads posted below:
1-6 sec : Language specific [...]
Well, it DEFINITELY hasn’t been posting on my blog! My apologies for those who come here to keep up with the work I’m doing over here.
So, to answer the question, the latest thing I’ve done is a recording of a minute-long advertisement to be played on local christian radio. We are currently recruiting [...]
