Studying theology in your second language is difficult. Very difficult. I know this because I am studying it in my first language. Unlike myself, a group of my fellow students at SBTS labor over reading--not because they are slow readers or the text is particularly challenging. Rather because they have crossed an ocean into another culture and another tongue for theological education.
Recently I walked by an Asian student looking up a word in his pocket electronic dictionary as he read Kate Turabian's 7th edition. He read this volume for about two hours without any apparent break (unless he took on during one of my breaks). Another Asian friend reads with a pencil so he can bracket prepositional phrases, mark verbs, etc. as he reads.
What a testimony these brothers are to the worth of knowing God in Christ!
