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 [...]
I had been wanting to see him since nearly 6 months had passed since we were face-to-face. Since my mother’s remarriage and our subsequent move to Charleston, SC, I now had about a 4 hour drive between me and my dad. If I can just hold out for a couple of weeks, I’ll see him [...]
http://www.scripture-engagement.org/content/advice-scripture-and-drama-recording
This is a great (very short) article with a downloadable .pdf with advice for recording drama-styled Scripture. Even though you may not be doing this time of work, it gives you a glimpse of the kinds of things we need to consider as we go into the studio to record mother tongue materials.
To arrive at our house it is advised to have 4WD. After driving about 0.5 mi into the neighborhood (all rough dirt road) you descend into a small valley. From there, the short, steep climb up to our house is about a 300 ft increase in altitude. Remember… all dirt. And what time of the [...]
‘Bustani’ is Swahili for garden. Now that rain time is here, we had our gardener load the ground with our favorite vegetable seeds. The following are pictures of our garden area. Everything except trees, strawberries and pumpkins are at 5 days in the ground with nothing sprouting as of yet (UPDATE: looked at garden [...]
This post has nothing to do with my mission work. Just to let you know.
I’ve had a problem in trying to change notifications in the Skype Preferences pane (I’m using OS X, by the way). But, every time I clicked on the red flag (Notifications), Skype would freeze for up to a minute, then crash. [...]
I kid you not, Scottie kicked in the warp speed around the time I started recording Mark in the Vwanji language. The ensuing months have blown by like streaks of light from passing stars. Today, he turned the switch back off. The Gospel of Mark in the Vwanji language now has 198 complete and ready-to-sell [...]
Just before quittin’ time yesterday, a good Tanzanian friend of mine called me. He said, “Jonathan, God has been good to us!” I asked him why he said that. He proceeded to tell me that someone had brought to him a cassette tape duplicator trying to sell it. He noticed it matched the description of [...]
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 [...]
That’s the ping pong match going back and forth in me right now.
On one hand, I’m excited that 55 cassettes were taken by 5 different Nyakyusa pastors today. It is progress. It is God’s Word going out in a form that makes it accessible to more people. It is an accomplishment that I should be [...]
