How do you think the settlers could translate Native American
They could learn. Settlers did learn. This includes when ones were taken captive by raids and adopted into tribes. They learned. And if people wanted to be scouts who could negotiate with Native Americans, they learned their languages.
So they learned it the same way we learned English-nothing more or less than that?
Well, there are different ways to learn a language. So, one person might use methods different than what someone else has used.
We can learn like how a baby learns by growing up in a family.
Someone can teach us and practice with us.
We can study books.
We can use movies and videos to get experience. Ones in early history, of course, did not do this
I have used a You Tube Spanish reading of the epistle of James, chapter one, so I could hear the language and practice hearing the words;
you can distinguish them after learning them and then hearing them, for a while.
We can try to talk and people then can correct us.
I use Bibles in the languages I want to learn so I show people I love them and am their friend; and I memorize verses so I have good things to say, even though I am not totally familiar with a language.
By myself, I might practice by thinking and praying and speaking in a language; but then I verify with a native speaker, to make sure of if I am really learning the language
And I have memorized and sung a verse in Tagalog. This has helped me to remember it
But, then, ones Philippine might not know the formal Tagalog which is in the Bible, or they speak a different Philippine language, and not Tagalog. So-o-o . . . lolololol . . . I need to be ready to adapt to what people know.
With God we can be creative
