Just a short, simple blog for Bob to share his thoughts.
26 October 2021 • by Bob • Military, Linguistics
After graduating the Defense Language Institute (DLIFLC), then three years working a live mission, and then graduating the Foreign Language Training Center Europe (FLTCE), I was asked to provide real-time translations from English into Russian for church services for political refugees in West Germany who had defected from the East.
I thought that I was pretty darn good with the live mission vocabulary, but my self-confidence in the language completely evaporated when I realized that I knew absolutely zero of
Yup - I quickly realized that when it came to church vocabulary, I was a totally worthless n00b.
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