The Bible is a very complex text to translate. As I draft new passages I routinely come across vocabulary challenges. The latest challenge is also a grammar challenge:
As preparation for the Kovol literacy class, we need to produce practice reading materials. The number 1 reason literacy graduates don't cement their skills and make literacy a part of their lives is lack of practice. Some estimate that students require at least 600 hours of reading practice, without which graduates may slip back into illiteracy.
This week we've had the Kovol people helping us in a big way. They cut bamboo in the jungle, carried it to our house and then walled in parts of our houses. The Hansen family had recently had an extension built onto their house and my little office under our house hadn't had an exterior wall put on yet.
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