[Essay] Missionary Charonne Kang's Linguistic Acquirement of Seven Languages - Let's Enjoy Learning a New Language like Enjoying Music
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 To this day Manmin Central Church has been spearheading in accomplishing the world evangelization, and needs many workers who are excellent at various foreign languages. There is a capable missionary who translated into Hebrew for Dr. Jaerock Lee's 3-year Israeli ministry and translated into French for Dr. Jaerock Lee's meeting with the Congolese President Joseph Kabila at the 2006 Democratic Republic of Congo Miracle Healing Festival. She is Missionary Charonne Kang.
Missionary Charonne Kang speaks French, English, and Hebrew fluently, and can speak German, Spanish, and Arabic.
"I've learned a few languages. Through those languages, I've been able to learn and acquire much knowledge in various fields—culture, ways of thinking, food, and education. And when I translated for ministers, presidents, professors, and various honored people, I could build up various knowledge and abundant experiences in many aspects—satellite, statistics, fashion, chemistry, and broadcasting. The languages have opened the doors to the world for me."
Missionary Charonne Kang confesses, "I can see the world through foreign languages." In the July of 1995, she flew away to France for study after graduating from an elementary school in Korea.
"I studied in France, and after that I went to UK with a desire to experience a new world and began studying English there. In the middle I returned to France to sit for the entrance examination for college, and tried to go back to UK again. But I couldn't because of a problem of immigration. While staying in France, I felt distressed in my heart and listened to the messages of Dr. Jaerock Lee. Through his messages, I felt as if I couldn't escape from going to Hell." In 2004, I heard that the 2004 Germany Miracle Healing Festival would be held and French translators be needed. I went there with a longing heart to participate in the festival and found many workers were preparing for the festival. My heart became fervent and determined to become a tool to spread the gospel for the Lord. After the festival ended, I came to Dr. Jaerock Lee and received his prayer for blessing. I shed many tears at his prayer and discovered why God has sent me to Europe and what I should do to save many souls in Europe."
In April of 2005, she asked Manmin Central Church to allow her to become a missionary, and after being sent to France as a missionary, she came to learn a few languages more quickly and easily by the help of the Holy Spirit. First, she practiced German because she had to stay in Germany. She had once learned German as the third language during her third grade of the middle school.
And she prepared to learn Hebrew because she heard that Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee would begin his Israeli ministry. She visited a synagogue of Jews in Paris, and started learning Hebrew. On March 16, 2006, she flew to Israel with the money she had earned until then.
Meanwhile she was financially supported by Senior Pastor, and came to enter the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and dwell in the Manmin Missionary Center in Jerusalem. She learned Hebrew so fast that many local people were surprised.
In addition, she learned Spanish easily because it has much in common with French, and learned how to read and write Arabic just in 7 days because Arabic and Hebrew have much in common. Thus, she speaks 7 languages. Now let's learn her know-how about learning foreign languages.
* "Change your thought, saying, 'It's easy to learn foreign languages!'"
"There is nothing easier than to learn foreign languages. If you go abroad and live there, you can share short conversation with local people without special education. We can learn languages even while playing funs. Having friendship with foreign people is one of good ways of learning the language. Language is imitation. If we remember what a friend said and the words that we heard at movies or TV programs, and practice the words, we can talk with the words comfortably."
* "Live your daily life with a new language!"
"Whether I stay at home, walk the roads, or sleep in bed, I listen to something in a foreign language. When I repeatedly listen to praises, sermons, news, radio, and movies' audio, I become familiar with many words and those words are remembered. Then, I add the words in my vocabulary lists and memorize them. It is one of the surest ways to repeat the words that are in the songs and memorize them. The two things I always carry are a dictionary and a vocabulary list. I installed multi-language dictionary program in my computer and I can get the definition of a word in 7 languages just with a click.
I read a chapter of the Bible loudly in the language in which I want to, and sometimes I pray in that language. The biblical words and the words in prayers are different from everyday words, so I rely on that way. That way is somewhat effective to those who live in the situation they cannot meet foreign people every day.
While listening to the messages of Senior Pastor and receiving his prayer, I repeat them and practice translating them into other languages. Through this practice I can repeat even the words he speaks very fast, and check and look up the words I am not aware of."
* "Listen repeatedly, and your ears will open."
"For some time I recorded the news broadcast in English and other languages and tried to listen to them repeatedly. But I couldn't concentrate on the news attentively, but just heard them. One day while listening to the news repeatedly on a bus, it started sounding like Korean words with their meanings. Some words have different meanings according to their different pronunciations. But when I listen to them repeatedly, I can understand 10 sentences at first and 20 sentences later, and finally they sound like my mother tongue."
* "Memorize new words in association with others"
"When we associate new words with the familiar and specific words, we can memorize the new words more easily and better. The words that are memorized in association with other familiar words cannot be easily forgotten. Next, pronunciation is important. Sometimes my pronunciation is heard strange to foreigners and then they may fail to understand my words. So, if we record our pronunciations and listen to them, we can find which one should be corrected."
* "Good grammars cause us to speak high class of expressions."
"Some Korean people say the reason that Korean students are not good at English is because they attentively learn the English grammar and fail to open their mouth before foreigners. But I think they need to study basic grammar systematically unless they grow up talking with local children in overseas country. If we completely understand the grammar of a language, we do not speak roughly but instead we can speak high-level language."
* "Search for portal websites of a language"
"After composition, sometimes I wonder whether or not the composition is proper. The surest way is to search for portal websites of the language and put the composed sentence into the websites. If the sentence is correct, I can find many
more sentences including the expression, or if the sentence is not correct, I can find similar expressions that have been
correctly composed according to the contexts."
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