Wycliffe and Me | Belfast | Saturday 25 February 2012

Looking forward to this tomorrow… twenty plus people expected.

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Wycliffe? Great, but I’m no translator

I’ve blogged on this before but I’m not well enough organised to remember when … but now I think about it, I mentioned the IT student at Queen’s Universrity Belfast who thought Wycliffe only wanted people who speak loads of languages on a recent blog. One of my aims as I relate to churches and [...]

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Calling all teachers!

World Class? An evening to explore a wide range of opportunities for Christian teachers overseas. The Mount Belfast Thursday 20 January 2011 Wycliffe is one of 14 agencies hosting this event under the banner of Mission Agencies Partnership (MAP). We will start with an evening meal followed by presentations on how to get involved and [...]

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Have you ever been on a mission?

I came across this question this morning while reading the Bible online at SU WordLive. We were looking at part of Paul’s first letter to Timothy. The word mission can mean different things to different people: it could be diplomatic, a journey into space, a dangerous military operation. But on SU WordLive it was in [...]

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What language do you use in education?

Following up from yesterday’s blog on Google introducing Kiswahili, I have seen two blogs this morning from colleagues commenting on separate and somewhat contradictory news stories on language and education. In For better or for worse… Matt Wisbey comments on a story from East Africa on “harmonisation” ie making everyone learn in English. With harmonization [...]

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Google launches Kiswahili language versions

Colleague Matt Wisbey flagged this up on Twitter this morning… Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Chrome – Google’s very own web browser – are now available in a Kiswahili language version according to reports received last week, making access to the Internet for East African, non-English speakers possible at last, improving and expanding the realm [...]

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Wycliffe MA in Literacy Programme Development validated

On 11 May the MA in Literacy Programme Development was validated by Middlesex University. It is the second MA to be developed by ETP (the European Training Programme), following the MA Field Linguistics which was validated in 2008. This news broke today on the Wycliffe UK blog- and it was a double pleasure for me! [...]

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How many vowels in the Massalit language?

How many vowels does the Massalit language have? With the help of recordings and their analysis on the computer we now know: There are ten, as we already supposed. Some years ago along with colleagues in the Mobilisation Team of Wycliffe Bible Translators UK, I was very excitedly trying to recruit a team of people [...]

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Spotlight on Bible Translation

Eddie Arthur has posted a video clip Spotlight on Bible Translation from Dan O’Day on Vimeo. In just a few minutes, it highlights Bible translation and literacy need in today’s world. For example, did you know that there are more translations of the Bible into English – 500 – than there are complete Bibles in [...]

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My WOW blogs!

It’s been great to see so much interest in my WOW Window on Wycliffe blogs over the past week. For those of you reading this – or on my Facebook Notes page – WOW is a Wycliffe UK event that you should seriously consider attending… as long as you are close enough of course! Window [...]

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