Hi Rhet.
I've been meaning to post here, and I see no one has posted for several days, so maybe my post can jumpstart it. :smilewinkgrin: I'm not sure my experience is what you meant, but I'll give it a try.
Two of the best years of my life were doing full time Japanese study at the Tokyo School of the Japanese Language, the oldest and most prestigious language school in Japan. They were also two of the most difficult, since it was 2 hours one way down into Tokyo from where we lived, including riding the hub train at Japanese rush hour--crammed in so tight we could literally hardly move!
At the language school I got to know some SBC missionaries and enjoyed their fellowship--even teamed up in ping pong with the SBC token liberal!
I also teamed up with a colonel in the Thai army and others. One Chinese expert ping pong player even took me down to a ping pong store and helped me buy a custom paddle--of course he could whip me 21 to 0. But I digress.
There were some great opportunities for witness too. I gave Chinese Bibles or tracts to Chinese from Taiwan, the People's Republic, Hong Kong and Singapore. I gave a Thai tract to the colonel, but he returned it--corrected!
Most of all, I got a great foundation in this language which has lasted me for 23 years after graduation. I also discovered a talent (God's gift, of course) for languages which I didn't know I had. This talent, having been developed at the language school, has helped me write Japanese tracts, books, textbooks, outline sets and now in the translation of a new Japanese NT.
God bless and good night from Japan. :sleeping_2:
I've been meaning to post here, and I see no one has posted for several days, so maybe my post can jumpstart it. :smilewinkgrin: I'm not sure my experience is what you meant, but I'll give it a try.
Two of the best years of my life were doing full time Japanese study at the Tokyo School of the Japanese Language, the oldest and most prestigious language school in Japan. They were also two of the most difficult, since it was 2 hours one way down into Tokyo from where we lived, including riding the hub train at Japanese rush hour--crammed in so tight we could literally hardly move!
At the language school I got to know some SBC missionaries and enjoyed their fellowship--even teamed up in ping pong with the SBC token liberal!
I also teamed up with a colonel in the Thai army and others. One Chinese expert ping pong player even took me down to a ping pong store and helped me buy a custom paddle--of course he could whip me 21 to 0. But I digress.There were some great opportunities for witness too. I gave Chinese Bibles or tracts to Chinese from Taiwan, the People's Republic, Hong Kong and Singapore. I gave a Thai tract to the colonel, but he returned it--corrected!
Most of all, I got a great foundation in this language which has lasted me for 23 years after graduation. I also discovered a talent (God's gift, of course) for languages which I didn't know I had. This talent, having been developed at the language school, has helped me write Japanese tracts, books, textbooks, outline sets and now in the translation of a new Japanese NT.
God bless and good night from Japan. :sleeping_2:
