What does a literacy class in a minority language of Papua New Guinea look like?
After learning to speak the Kovol language the missionary team is now teaching reading and writing in the Kovol language. What does a day of class look like?
The first of hopefully a few 30s videos giving a glimpse of missionary life.
The first literacy class has started! Take a look at the video below to see what it looks like as we take these first 12 students through our program teaching reading and writing in the Kovol language.
This was the week we returned to Kovol. It was a little later than planned, but not too much really. We are glad to be back and we made a quick video so you can see what a helicopter flight into such a remote area of Papua New Guinea looks like.
We’re recovering from our 36-hour journey back to PNG this week. The jet-lag is still making us mega tired in the evenings, but otherwise we’re happy to be back in beautiful PNG!
I remembered to get my camera out on the journey and the result is a video that shows you a little bit of what it is like to leave home and travel to the other side of the world.
It is now our last week in the UK before starting our journey back to PNG. We will spend 10 days in the Netherlands to see family before hopping on a long flight for Goroka.
As our mind goes to our return to PNG next month (Wow! That’s soon!), we’ve been thing about what life in Kovol is going to look like. We’re excited that after years of language learning and preparation our team is looking to start our first literacy class.
What can that look like? Here’s a video showcasing a few other places in PNG where this work has been done.
With last week’s video looking at what heart language in, this week’s video from NTM PNG answers the question: why use heart language?
We haven’t been the only missionaries busy learning heart language. We are blessed to work with others who have been through the same marathon as us to learn to speak a minority language to a high standard.
In a country as linguistically diverse as Papua New Guinea, what even is heart language though? This video from NTM PNG takes a look at the question.
With the goal being a mature church among the Kovol people, the Kovol language is an essential, indispensable tool. We, as missionaries, needed to learn the unwritten Kovol language. A friend of ours put together a video to think about how that works, and Kovol features in the video 🙂