The other day, I wrote: For at least fifteen years now, I've taken an interest in the Indo-European family and the relationship between older languages. Sometimes, this is just for curiosity's sake. Sometimes, it helps me better understand modern...

Last week, I mentioned that my plans for Indo-European were to sort of fill in the pieces of the puzzle as I went along. This week, I’ve been working at nearly opposite edges – a couple lessons of Pimsleur Dari and some dabbling in...

Earlier today, I was at Omniglot and happened upon his My Languages page. I thought that was kind of a nice idea, so I made one of my own. It's a bit more tedious, but should do the job. For the moment, you'll find it in the post below this one. It's...

Regular visitors to this site will note that some of my language efforts are a bit scattershot. I've never been a very linear person, so my learning efforts both toward individual languages and toward polyglottism most often resemble filling in a...

I've been looking at modern Irish, Old Irish and proto-Indo-European. Not speaking Indo-European, I tend to use Latin as my cross-reference for thinking about how Old Irish works. It turns out I'm not the only one baffled by Celtic languages at times....