Wayne & Gail Chen Bringing the Gospel to the Biem people in Papua New Guinea Every morning I go up the road to a little “buai stand” on top of the hill. In PNG, everybody chews betel-nut and I mean EVERYBODY. They take the nut, dip it into little kabang (lime) and then chew it all together with some mustard (daka). The family in this buai stand has made it their mission to teach me Pidgin…so this is my school!
buai, kabang and daka
Gail and the girls came up for a visit today.
Talking with my language helper Charlie.
I go with my tape recorder, camera and a notepad…sometimes I just listen to them, trying to hear the tempo, the tone and the mannerism in which they speak. They just all said to me today, “Wayne, you can hear good now…we are going to teach you how to talk!”.
