{"id":16505,"date":"2022-03-14T18:42:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T22:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16505"},"modified":"2022-03-14T18:42:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T22:42:18","slug":"swimming-in-linguistic-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16505","title":{"rendered":"Swimming in linguistic waters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nothing to review, <\/strong>and I\u2019ve done little but work in the last few days (no, that\u2019s not true. I loafed yesterday. It was Sunday). So I\u2019m journaling today, I guess. Yet again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was warm today, in the upper 30s. Tomorrow will be even better, and I don\u2019t see a freezing day on the horizon. I approve of this development. I shall tip the waiter generously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I complained, the other day, about my inability to understand spoken Norwegian, the language I translate professionally in text form. One of our readers, Deborah HH, suggested I listen to Norwegian radio. I thought this an excellent suggestion, and installed a Norwegian radio app on my cell phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My strategy (or wishful thinking) is to attack the problem subconsciously<\/em>. I will just have the radio on, listening idly as I do other things. No sustained effort to understand what I\u2019m hearing. My working theory is that that effort is a part of the problem. I know all these words. I just don\u2019t process them when they come in through the audible gate. When I consciously try to interpret, I get hung up on individual words and lose the flow. What I need is an involuntary response. I\u2019m hoping that as I listen over time, my subconscious will jump the gap and connect to my dictionary storage unit. Something like \u201ctotal immersion\u201d learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took some searching to find the channels I wanted. Most Norwegian radio is indistinguishable from American radio, except for the announcements. They play music, and it\u2019s mostly American music. I wanted talk, and in the Old Country language. There\u2019s an NRK (Norwegian National Broadcasting) channel that\u2019s all news, and that\u2019s just the thing, as far as it goes. But around 2:00 pm (our time) they switch to BBC News, which is no use at all (in more than one sense).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I finally found a channel to listen to after that. It\u2019s J\u00e6ren Misjonsradio<\/em> (J\u00e6ren Mission Radio). If the name J\u00e6ren seems familiar, its old name is Jaeder, and it\u2019s the region where Erling Skjalgsson lived in his time (around Stavanger). A region with a great evangelical tradition, of which my ancestors were a part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They feature preaching in Norwegian, which is good. I recognize the Bible passages, and that helps me along. And the music they play is mostly in Norwegian too \u2013 and some of it\u2019s quite excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I heard one preacher \u2013 a good one \u2013 and happened to notice his name on the crawl. Carl Fredrik Wisl\u00f8ff. This was thrilling. Wisl\u00f8ff was a prominent evangelical preacher, teacher, and writer in Norway up to his death in 2004. I used to sell some of his books in the bookstore at the seminary \u2013 we had a large stock of one of them. He even visited our schools once, I\u2019m told, but that was before my time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing to review, and I\u2019ve done little but work in the last few days (no, that\u2019s not true. I loafed yesterday. It was Sunday). So I\u2019m journaling today, I guess. Yet again. It was warm today, in the upper 30s. Tomorrow will be even better, and I don\u2019t see a freezing day on the horizon. … Continue reading Swimming in linguistic waters<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[4106,2049,2298,3186],"class_list":["post-16505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-uncategorized","tag-carl-fredrik-wisloff","tag-norwegian-language","tag-radio","tag-translating"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16507,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16505\/revisions\/16507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}