What is the process of preparing a Bible lesson in the Kovol language? This week Steve has been preparing the tower of Babel lesson, translating into the Kovol language and checking it communicates. Take a look to see what that looks like.
4 months of Monday to Friday lessons and our first 11 students have finished the literacy course. The students have been committed. In 79 days of class not a single student was late or absent. We even had students sitting in class shaking with fever from malaria! Upon finishing each Read more
Step 1 starts with a blank page. Not a word has been translated yet and the process needs to start somewhere. I do my best to study the passage to understand it’s meaning clearly and then I write the best Kovol I can. So how good is my first draft? How closely does it resemble the “final” translation. Have a look at the image below. You can see my original on the right and the version after step 6 of the process on the left.
Kovol gardens produce the following vegetables: sweet potato, yam, taro, Singapore taro, cassava, corn, banana, pandanus seeds, soy beans, green beans, peanuts, cabbage, chayote greens, aibika greens, aupa greens, green onions, cucumbers, sugar cane and papaya. I realise that is quite a list but I think what people here eat Read more