Does "Speaking In Tongues" Qualify You To Teach A Foreign Language In Schools?

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  1. resisting arrest

    resisting arrest Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Or could you become official interpreter to the President in whatever language you are expert in? There are limitless job opportunities if this is true...
     
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    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    My wife speaks in tongues....... and on the first occasion that she did so which was about seven or eight years before I met her.... she was told by a woman from India that she had praised God in a dialect of India.

    Near death experiencer Dr. Kevin Zadai spoke in tongues and sang in tongues on one occasion during the 1980's (about ten years before his near death experience), and a fellow Bible College student down the hall who had lived many years in South America told him that he had sang that worship song perfectly in a dialect from South America that he knew. He then spoke in tongues for many hours along with this student and was given guidance relevant to the rest of his life and especially his shift to another Bible College.

    Over the next twenty years I do believe that the gift of tongues will be used in some pretty astonishing ways. The Book of Jasher has an impressive incident of this from the life of the Patriarch Joseph the son of Jacob / Yacob. I will try to find it.
     
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    Curious how people speaking in tongues don't use sounds that aren't in their native language. Speaking in tongues lacks the structure of a language and is learned behavior.

    ...the sounds are taken from the set of sounds already known to the speaker is confirmed by others. Felicitas Goodman, a psychological anthropologist and linguist, also found that the speech of glossolalists reflected the patterns of speech of the speaker's native language.

    Goodman, Felicitas D. (1969). "Phonetic Analysis of Glossolalia in Four Cultural Settings". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 8 (2): 227–35. doi:10.2307/1384336. JSTOR 1384336
     
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