31 Mar '14 10:19>
In the early nineties, I read the Bible ~ both OT and NT ~ in its entirety, in Indonesian, in an effort to take some hefty strides towards mastering the language.
I used it partly because of the paucity of other suitable learning/reading material, perched as I was in a book-lacking withered little ex-oil town on the edge of Irian Jaya's rainforest wilderness.
It proved to be an excellent source of sensible everyday-ready vocabulary along with a generous smattering of items that I have probably never had reason to say out loud in the years since.
Has anyone else used a Bible in their efforts to learn a language?
I used it partly because of the paucity of other suitable learning/reading material, perched as I was in a book-lacking withered little ex-oil town on the edge of Irian Jaya's rainforest wilderness.
It proved to be an excellent source of sensible everyday-ready vocabulary along with a generous smattering of items that I have probably never had reason to say out loud in the years since.
Has anyone else used a Bible in their efforts to learn a language?