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 [...]
If you recall this post last week, I had to plan a day trip up to Makete for 58 words which were missing out of my Kinga Jonah recording. The trip was successful and I want to show you how it was.
While preparing for the trip, I had to plan where I was to record [...]
In two days, I take a day trip up to Makete in the Kinga language area. Literally ‘up’ because I have to climb to nearly 10,000ft before dropping back down into Makete at 7,500ft.
It’s about a 3-hour trip one-way, with 2.5 hours being on rough dirt roads.
The reason I need to go is because of [...]
A whole lotta flip-flopping was going on this past weekend. Kinda felt like I stood a baseball bat on end, touched my forehead to it, ran myself around in 100 circles, and stood up in an attempt to race to the other end of a football field. Here’s the scoop…
For months now, our 10-language project [...]
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 [...]
I spent most of the morning and afternoon practicing parts with three Nyakyusa speakers. We practiced all the parts of: (From Ruth) Naomi, Ruth, Boaz, & Town Women; (From Jonah) God. This is a different approach from how I did the Sangu and Kinga recordings. There was no practice with them, just give me my [...]
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 [...]
Well… Friday I drove into town only to notice that the A/C had quit working. The fan worked but out came only muggy air. That’s not a good thing for a six-days-total journey to Nairobi. Especially with an 8-month-old. So, I took it to the garage first thing this morning. They pulled it up on [...]
Here is Asher exploring our room with Mommy:
Makete is becoming my favorite place here. You can see why…
Recording is going absolutely wonderful. As a matter of fact, I’m sitting here about to finish the last three songs. RUTH was finished yesterday and JONAH the day before. Six days of work has only taken three and [...]
I just got off the phone with Rev. Labord, team leader for the Kinga translation. Man, he speaks Swahili very fast! Nevertheless, I was able to tentatively make arrangements to travel to Makete in late October to record more biblically-based songs as well as Ruth & Jonah. This is EXTREMELY exciting for me. Audio production [...]
