Foreign to Familiar

It’s a weird feeling when you suddenly realize that speaking in a foreign language feels natural. You listen to the conversations that you have at home and notice that you interchange your mother tongue with phrases that would be unintelligible to your friends back in your home country. It feels really strange… but really normal.

Neither of us have had our final language check to officially approve us as accomplished Pidgin speakers. But speaking and listening to it both feel so normal now. It’s so exciting to see where we were just 6 months ago compared to where we are now.

Yeah, we still make mistakes, leave out a word here or there, or have a mind blank where we can’t remember basic phrases. But we are making progress!

One language (mostly) down, one more (Uriay) to go!

Uriay is a much more complex language than Pidgin, so it will probably take us several years of studying to learn it. But we have an advantage because all the grammar analysis has already been completed on the language and the alphabet has been developed, so we can dive right into study without having to figure out all the tough stuff! Hopefully we can kick off our Uriay language study by the end of 2016!