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księżycowy wrote:I'm very tempted to add Hmong to my "fun languages" section....
Look at what you did, dEhiN!!!!!!
księżycowy wrote:Of course I have. I was just surprised that dEhiN wants to learn it some day.
vijayjohn wrote:księżycowy wrote:Of course I have. I was just surprised that dEhiN wants to learn it some day.
Oh, that's because I infected him with my panglossophilia.
dEhiN wrote:Plus how can you not be enamoured by the consonant range in Archi?!
I'm pretty sure I was wanderlusting for languages as a child long before I even knew what wanderlusting was! Now, as I think about it, some of the earliest ones I can recall are Pictish, Philistine (or whatever language the Philistines of the Bible were supposed to have spoken), Hittite (due to Biblical references, particularly King David and Uriah), and Akkadian (which at the time I just thought of as the language the Assyrians of the Bible spoke; although funnily enough I was never interested in the language the Babylonians of the Bible spoke!).
I have a vague memory of being at some meeting (seminar ?) where two linguists from SIL (or whatever Christian organization it is that helps small language communities develop writing so that they could translate the Bible) were talking of the intricacies of translation. They mentioned something about how the part in the Bible where it says to not build your foundation on sand but on rock was tricky to translate for one people group that lived in huts on sticks in the sand. And I remember wanting to find out what people group that was, what language they spoke, and learn a bit about that.
księżycowy wrote:Pictish?
I've wanted to learn Gaulish before. I think I've also already expressed my interest in Old Irish, Cornish, and Manx. Celtic languages are fun!
*whispers* learn Irish with me.
As for the Biblical languages, they were such a wanderlust to me that I made them my core of study.
kevin wrote:Learn Irish with us!
I've been wanting to get back to Greek for a long time. And Hebrew I'd really like to do some more, too. Bu well, not now...
księżycowy wrote:Is Archive got enough in English (or any other languages you know) to learn? I'm curious.
księżycowy wrote:I've wanted to learn Gaulish before. I think I've also already expressed my interest in Old Irish, Cornish, and Manx. Celtic languages are fun!
księżycowy wrote:As for the Biblical languages, they were such a wanderlust to me that I made them my core of study.
księżycowy wrote:Egyptian, Akkadian, Aramaic and Sumerian were always of interest to me. Especially Egyptian for some reason. I've recently become aquatinted with Ugaritic (recently as in somewhere around 5-10 years ago ).
kevin wrote:I would love to learn a bit about the Celtic language that once was spoken around here. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be known about it.
kevin wrote:księżycowy wrote:*whispers* learn Irish with me.
Learn Irish with us!
kevin wrote:I've been wanting to get back to Greek for a long time.
dEhiN wrote:Do you know what the language was? I don't know whereabouts you live. Do you know if this language would fall under Transalpine or Cisalpine Celtic?
You guys, stop tempting me! If I start Irish, not only will I be starting 3 new languages in close proximity to each other (and also just on the heels of starting to relearn Korean), but my two TY Welsh resources will be saddened.
kevin wrote:I've been wanting to get back to Greek for a long time.
Ancient or Koine?
księżycowy wrote:Greek was fun, and I hope to get back to it eventually. I've always dreamed of reading the classics (in Greek and Latin for that matter), as boring as they probably are.
Hebrew is just a fun ass challenge.
księżycowy wrote:kevin wrote:Learn Irish with us!
Tá brón an domhain orm!
kevin wrote:Well, what do you prefer between saddening two TY Welsh resources and saddening two fellow Unilangers?
dEhiN wrote:Apart from the Wikipedia page, there is also a dictionary and a small language tutorial, both put up by the University of Surrey. But I think you basically have to look at linguistic resources in English.
I've also wanted to learn the two main ones - Greek and Hebrew. I did take an NT Greek course in uni, and did quite well. I went to take the second one as well, but didn't do so well due to mental health struggles. But I still have all the resources. I never had as strong a desire for Hebrew as Greek. Actually, I think it's more that for the longest while Semitic languages scared me. I'm not sure why, but the idea of learning a new script that's written from left to right threw me off. Plus I'm pretty sure most pastors I knew who had learned both would say something about Hebrew being harder than Greek. And I assumed Arabic was hard, so I think by extension I figured all Semitic languages were very hard!
*googles Ugaritic* *falls in lust right away* *makes plans to learn the cuneiform and phonology*
If I remember correctly, Assimil has a book for learning Middle Egyptian, and the book+cd combo is only 69.90 €.
You guys, stop tempting me! If I start Irish, not only will I be starting 3 new languages in close proximity to each other (and also just on the heels of starting to relearn Korean), but my two TY Welsh resources will be saddened.
linguoboy wrote:Ní mheasaim gur fiú mórán é ach "ana-bhrón" a déarfainn féin,
kevin wrote:At school I learned Classical, but I have forgotten enough of it that it probably shouldn't make a big difference... I'm more interested in Koine now, actually.
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Getting back to Greek shouldn't actually be that difficult. The script is not a problem, some theoretical knowledge about the grammar should be more or less there (quite rusty, but probably good enough for the start), I'd just need to start and actually (re-)learn some vocabulary and attack some text.
Hebrew, on the other hand... I attended that Modern Hebrew course that was fun, but didn't really move forward and was mostly just spoken, or written in German orthography. With the Hebrew script, I still feel like I'm a first grader again, sounding out words letter by letter. And of course very small vocabulary and almost no grammar. I'm not sure if I can find the motivation to work on a language by myself from this level.
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