Bangla Training

Holly and I started our part time Bangla Studies this week.  They are testing a new method of training for short term volunteers that will give us basic oral communication skills.  The existing set method is more traditional in that it focuses on how to read and write prior to learning speech.   This new method will really give us a quick head start in communicating.  We learned about 300 new words this week (greetings, family members, animals, kitchen items, numbers, colors, body parts, household items, directions, etc.). I will try to post a link with a typical video clip we make during the sessions as we complete a new group of words.  We have been doing the studies out of our home, first thing in the morning for 2 hours before we head to the office then again for 1 hour in the evening.  In the photo is Nancy, Holly, Jon, Derjedon and Shawne. (Derjedon is our teacher and Shawne in on the language committee).  As you can see in the photo the weather is starting to cool down so we have been wearing our sweaters in the early morning hours (gets down to a low of 15C - brrr, but gets back up to 30C in the day).

Awnek Dhonnobad

Jon