I can say that right now is probably the most exciting time work-wise since I started in the language project well over a year ago. I’ve got nine completely recorded audio books of the Bible, not counting the two books already released in the Sangu language. NINE!!! Wow. Ruth and Jonah make up eight of [...]
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 [...]
Last Wednesday, I was going here, going there, trying to deal with the theft we experienced the night before. While we were out, I stopped at the office to drop something off for a friend. Joey M., a Tanzanian pastor working with the language project in the area of partnership, told me of [...]
I started editing RUTH and JONAH before we left for Nairobi last month. Since, I’ve only had a chance to work on it here and there especially with T’giving and this house problem of ours. But, I have finished JONAH and am almost half way done with RUTH. Next after that is [...]
These books have been available for months in written form, I have just recently finished recording them. Last week, I traveled with a small team out to Usangu (in Swahili, to say the area of a certain language group, you put a U- on the beginning). Their purpose was to distribute 2009 mother tongue calendars [...]
Here is the audio from Jonah 1:15-16 in Kisangu. In English, the verses say:
So they picked Jonah up and threw him into the sea, and the sea stopped raging.
The men feared the Lord greatly, and earnestly vowed to offer lavish sacrifices to the Lord.
Jonah 1:15-16 in Kisangu
His name is Wiliadi Mwasembe (wee-lee-AH-dee mwah-SAY-mbay) and he is the Kisangu translation team leader. Back in June, he and I sat in the Scripture Use office and poured over the recently-prepared Ruth and Jonah scripts to check their accuracy. Upon completion of that task, we set the tentative recording date to be sometime in [...]
Below is my tentative schedule for the recording of Ruth & Jonah in the MICP languages.
2008
Sep 29 – Oct 3: Sangu
Oct 20 – Oct 24: Kinga
Dec 8 – Dec 12: Nyakyusa
2009
Jan 12 – Jan 16: Bena
Feb 9 – Feb 13: Safwa
Mar 16 – Mar 20: Malila
Apr 13 – Apr 17: Vwanji
May 11 – May 15: [...]
