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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 33 of 35 24 July 2012 at 8:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Akkadboy, you're a sbA! :) Edited by Teango on 24 July 2012 at 8:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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There you go: 𓇼 Seriously, that's an awesome list. I guess I'll have to find out whether André Fermat's version of Sinouhé is any good the hard way—most of his translations seem to be published through Maison de Vie, and he doesn't have any papers on Google Scholar. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5533 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 35 of 35 28 August 2012 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Since the start of this thread, I've learned over 200 signs and spent 30 days using
Assimil L'Égyptien hiéroglyphique. You can find a long, detailed summary in my log: A retrospective of 30 days of Assimil (I have Anki decks, which are currently available by PM.) I've been very pleased with the Assimil course. It packs a lot of real grammar into the first 30 daily lessons, and it's much more satisfying than those books that focus solely on reading formulaic funeral inscriptions. And even after 30 days of Assimil and 20 hours of Anki reviews, it seems that I'm developing an embryonic ability to read simple inscriptions—I look at the signs, hear the Egyptian, and understand it, sometimes without explicit transliteration or translation. Of course, this ability breaks down very quickly, even before I leave Assimil's kiddie pool. But it's enough to convince me that it's possible that another 4 months of Assimil (and adding lots of sentences to Anki after that, in the style of AJATT) might eventually allow somebody to curl up and read simple texts for pleasure. Well, until the endless dialects and variants defeated them. My best English-language resource is Loprieno's recent book: Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction This is pretty heavy stuff, but it's comprehensive and up-to-date, with an entire chapter on the reconstructed pronunciation of Egyptian. If you want to dig deeper, this is a perfect entry point for the academic literature. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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