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Confessions of a Language Addict

Thoughts on language, language learning and the process of becoming a polyglot.
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Children with Picture Books, Adults with Facing Translations

Nov 21, 2009
Via languagefixation, I stumbed across this bit at HTLAL from Iverson of Iverson list fame:Reading something in a language where you have to look up several words in each sentence feels frustrating, and doing something that makes you feel frustrated...

Jack of All Language Trades?

Nov 15, 2009
The other day, Street Smart Language Learning was writing about serial language learning and its temptations. As he puts it:As you progress farther and farther into the language, finding those discrete units that you don't already know takes more and...

Covering some etymology

Nov 8, 2009
A few odds and ends on where words come from: Let's take a look at an Indo-European root, *(s)tego-. It means "to cover." Here are some derivatives: > *tog > Germanic *thakjan, which gives us thatch, as in a thatch roof. >*tog-a > you guessed it,...

The real meaning of Ancient Sanskrit?

Nov 8, 2009
This weekend, I took a look at the Sanskrit lessons at Early Indo-European Online. It's a funny thing: these languages can be so old, and yet with a lot still unsettled. As an aside, I've been hanging around a forum for Gaulish where much is yet...

The "Indo-European Family"

Oct 31, 2009
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...


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