Word: urdu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jones firmly believed that Christians, if they hoped to conquer the world for Jesus, would have to meet Eastern cultures on their own terms. He not only learned Hindi and Urdu, as did most other missionaries, but dressed in Indian clothes, openly sided with the independence movement. Today Jones finds that the spiritual gap between East and West has narrowed mightily. "We used to say that the mission field was on the map, but now I know it is in the heart," he says...
With U.S. businessmen buying and selling in increasingly remote parts of the world, Berlitz now teaches 46 living languages from Afrikaans to Urdu. President Strumpen-Darrie (who gets by in half a dozen languages) and 48-year-old Vice President Charles Berlitz (15 languages fluently, another 15 passably) insist that non-European tongues are usually no tougher than European ones, and that almost anyone can gain a rough working knowledge after 30 hours of instruction and a good fluency (a 3,000-word vocabulary) after 120 hours. The price: $3 for group lessons, $6 for individual sessions. For Berlitz, this...
...same school, reluctantly agreed to "occasional" visits. But Carpenter doggedly insisted that the language experience must be more than "a visit to the zoo," finally won the principle of at least three exchange visits a week. Pushing on to other countries, he set up language exchanges in Pakistan (for Urdu), Libya and Morocco (for Arabic...
...short supply, and India's banyas (village shopkeepers) took advantage of the situation to boost prices. The evidence of the Chinese advance came, oddly enough, from transistor radios. At first it was possible to tune in on Indian army short-wave transmitters and hear orders and messages in Urdu. From midweek on, Indians listened to the messages of the advancing Chinese. An added source of information was the sibilant voice of a young Indian woman, who reads all Peking radio broadcasts beamed to India: Indian soldiers nicknamed her the "Yellow Peril...
...exotic cities listed on its Manhattan front door: Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, Tehran. Lahore, Dacca, Kuala Lumpur, Djakarta. In those places, far from Manhattan's Publishers' Row, Franklin in ten years has guided the printing of 26,477,800 books in such exotic languages as Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Bengali, Malay and Indonesian...