computer science

Global Recordings Network

Global Recordings Network is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Global Recordings Network rather than just read about it. In short: Global Recordings Network (GRN) was founded by Joy Ridderhof in Los Angeles, California in 1939 as "Gospel Recordings, Inc." It is also known in different countries as "Audio Recordings Mission," "Grabaciones Buenas Nuevas," "Gravações," "Internationale Sprachen Mission," "Language Recordings," and "Sounds of Language Foundation." The mission of Global Recordings Network is "In partnership with the church, to effect…

Key takeaways

Global Recordings Network belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Global Recordings Network to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Global Recordings Network from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Global Recordings Network (GRN) was founded by Joy Ridderhof in Los Angeles, California in 1939 as "Gospel Recordings, Inc." It is also known in different countries as "Audio Recordings Mission," "Grabaciones Buenas Nuevas," "Gravações," "Internationale Sprachen Mission," "Language Recordings," and "Sounds of Language Foundation." The mission of Global Recordings Network is "In partnership with the church, to effectively communicate the Good News of Jesus Christ by means of culturally appropriate audio and audiovisual materials in every language." This is accomplished by having native speakers of target languages record the stories of the Bible in their own native languages. These recordings are provided to the community by a mother-tongue speaker and providing them in an audio format to churches, mission organizations, and the community at large. Often the languages do not have a written form. Global Recordings Network has offices (centers) and bases in more than 50 countries. The motto of Global Recordings Network is "Telling the story of Jesus in EVERY language."

The language professor Alexander Arguelles notes that it is possible to use these recordings and the accompanying text in a language the learner knows, to start learning any of the languages. For many there is no other way to learn the language. 1,300 of the languages accompany the stories with standardized pictures, shown for 10–20 seconds, which allow learners to find short parallel sections in the language they know and the one they want to learn. When Joy Ridderhof was a missionary to Honduras in Central America in 1930s, she remembered gramophones playing hymns in English repeatedly without change. This gave her the idea of having the same thing done in Spanish. Global Recordings Network is an evangelical faith mission organization to reach out to every language spoken in the world no matter how small the language group is. About two-thirds of the world are basically oral communicators in contrast to the one-thirds who are written communicators. Audio recordings and visual materials are essential means of communication. Global Recordings Network has produced the gospel recordings in over 6,700 languages and dialects (language varieties or speech varieties) of the estimated over 14,000 languages and varieties (dialects) spoken in the world. About 5.2 billion people are oral learners.

The recordings have been used for linguistic research on rhythm and phonological characteristics, vowels, consonants, for comparative research on phonemes from hundreds of languages, for developing and testing computer systems to recognize languages, and for documenting and reviving rare languages.

Books "Mountains Singing" (1952) by Sanna Barlow, the story of Gospel Recordings in the Philippines "Capturing Voices" (1978) by Phyllis Thompson, a biography of Joy Ridderhof and Gospel Recordings "What Price Obedience" (1982) by Elvie Nicoll, about how a record factory was started in India "Along Unfamiliar Paths" (1982) by Marlene Muhr, recounts the travels of early workers in GRN "Light Is Sown" by Sanna Morrison Barlow, details recording experiences in Africa in the 1950s "Catching Their Talk In A Box" (1987) by Betty M. Hockett, a children's biography from the series "Life-Story from Missions" "Lost For Words" (1990) by Stuart Mill, an account of the establishment of Gospel Recordings in Australia "Amazing Stories: From Global Recordings Network" (2014) by Allan Starling

See also Language education SIL Global Wycliffe Bible Translators Linguistics World language Evolutionary psychology of language Linguistic universal Dialect Language family Proto-language Global language system ISO 639-5

References

External links Global Recordings International Homepage Global Recordings Network Australia Global Recordings Network USA "5fish" Language download site and mobile app application Global Language multi-layer and multi-point maps Wheaton College GRN archives collection

Illustrations

Global Recordings Network (GRN) Logo

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Global Recordings Network

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Global Recordings Network claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Global Recordings Network before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Global Recordings Network ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Global Recordings Network

In research: Global Recordings Network appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Global Recordings Network in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Global Recordings Network is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1939 establishments in California, Christian missions, Language acquisition, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Global Recordings Network outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Global Recordings Network in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Global Recordings Network means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Global Recordings Network out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Global Recordings Network in simple terms?

Why does Global Recordings Network matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Global Recordings Network?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Global Recordings Network.