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I've been spending some time recently teaching myself the basics of Old French via this resource. Like you do. It's a pretty good resource--it takes you through a bunch of contemporary works (Chanson de Roland, Yvain, etc) and teaches you the grammar as it pertains to the text.

Last night, too, I dug up our copy of the Song of Roland*. I was ( Read more... )

As some of you may have guessed from my last LJ post and from Twitter, I've been teaching myself Sanskrit.

Or attempting to, at least. It is hard! Fascinating to the language geek in me, but hard.

My teacher in this has been a book called (appropriately enough) Teach Yourself Sanskrit, and so far I have not gotten past the first chapter. Because ( Read more... )

Three more topics, courtesy of redfishie. As a reminder, her topics were:
- What gets me excited about costuming
- Why Maine Coons are so very awesome
- The art of writing games
- Vampires, in all their forms
- Other languages, those I speak/read- Fanfic - or tormenting Hellsing fans :P ( Read more... )

When I was living in France as a teenager, I met an Irish ex-pat. She had been there long enough that she was pretty much bilingual. I asked her about any other languages she spoke, and she told me she had also studied Turkish (because of her husband) and Gaelic (in school in Ireland), but that she always got the two languages confused because ( Read more... )

… I'm sure I used that title somewhere before. Oh well ( Read more... )