I’ve always been interested in learning languages. That’s why I was interested in this Dr. Everett‘s book when I saw his talk on FORA.tv.
The linguistic details on this obscure Amazonian language was a bit too much for me, but the whole process of how he tried to learn the language and the culture was very interesting. It’s actually amazing what he and his family can endure and adapt to when a loftier goal is in place.
The book also talks about Dr. Everett losing his Christian faith in the process (he was sent there to learn the language to translate the Bible). That portion wasn’t as interesting and I wasn’t sure if it mattered that much.
Anyway, if anyone is interested in how one goes about learning a language when there is hardly a common language to start from, this is a very engaging account of one such process.
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