Something we've been wanting to encourage living here is more playing between our children and the Kovol children. There have been a few hurdles that have made playing together with Kovol kids hard for our own children.
Bible translation is a challenging task. It's not just a case of finding the right words to translate the words in the original. I asked one of the LLMs (Large language model), to translate Genesis 3:1-6 for me to see what it came up with. It had access to our Kovol lexicon and grammatical notes. It came up with this for Genesis 3:1 (translated back into English): "The wild Satan python was big big bad. This python God will make, that all the wild animals skin was big bad. Python here to the woman I will speak he said "Did God say which garden trees all i will not count them?" he said." Genesis 3:1 LLM version
Writing evangelistic Kovol Bible lessons is a huge task. The Gospel has never been presented in the Kovol language before. Where do you start? Well, we start at the beginning. Our lessons start in Genesis 1 and tell the story of the Bible to the end. We aim to pick up the big themes of the Bible and use its narrative to teach them. Doing so has several advantages. Firstly in an oral culture like we find ourselves in stories are important. The Kovol people are used to hearing and retelling stories and using them to make points. Teaching chronologically allows us to do just that.
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Lois S. · 05/09/2020 at 1:20 am
Thanks for sharing. It is great to get such a concise overview of your first term, and learn a little more about you, as the Hansens’ and Stanleys’ coworkers. Blessings as you share about the work with others.