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Language Training For Missionaries, Laurence Mcpherson Farr
Language Training For Missionaries, Laurence Mcpherson Farr
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
Every foreign missionary is confronted with one basic task. Without its successful accomplishment his work as a missionary will fail. It is the task of learning the language of the people among whom he is working. However laudable his motives may be, however great his consecration, and however capable he may be in many tasks, if he fails to gain the ability to understand readily speech addressed to him or to communicate his own thoughts intelligibly and accurately to them, he is working behind a closed door — a door which he failed to unlock,
It is the purpose of …