It's All Grace

a journey with the Thomason family

Tag: language

  • Language and Lower Temps

    We have been having regular Czech lessons on Wednesday mornings which are going great. Tamara (our teacher) has been very gracious and helpful, especially this morning when I couldn’t pronounce the Czech word that basically means “middle” in English. Above is a photo of our books out on the table and below is a photo…

  • More Visa Applications and Making a Million Mistakes

    Unbelievably we’ve already been here long enough to begin processing another round of visa applications. Our first set of visas are for six months so technically they don’t expire until the end of January. But with all the holidays and time it takes to process things here we have to get started earlier to make…

  • Through the Fog

    Someone at the Josiah Venture office today asked me how language lessons were going. She is from Czech and I said to he, “Rozumím trochu česky” which translates to, “I understand a little Czech.” Unfortunately, that’s where the conversation ends, but that doesn’t mean I’m not learning. It was only a few months ago that…

  • Learn Me Something

    Doing language learning is worse than going back to school for one reason: you can’t read the directions. Both of the books we have used have used to study Czech employ the theory that if they put the directions in Czech we will learn. In reality, all this does is frustrate me because it takes…

  • Email, Pizza, Date

    I got an email from our landlord the other day. The subject was “Wash exterior window sills” and the email read, Hello Mrs. Bethany on Thursday morning ie. Oct. 16. 2014 at home? You will need to wash again sills and you have a lot of work with children, so I ordered the lady who…