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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4678 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 25 of 75 13 February 2014 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
How many temple walls equal one page?
I think anyone who finishes the challenge should get a trip to the Valley of the Kings, where EMK can read us stories from the walls of the tombs. I really like the idea of this challenge. A three month pace (or longer ... maybe through the summer?) sounds right for the more challenging dead languages (Egyptian, Sanskrit, Greek, etc). I spent 10 months with Assimil (confusing), Clyde Pharr (fantastic, and free. I have the answer key if anyone needs it), Pamela Draper (Guide to Book 1, with support from Perseus), and Stanley Lombardo (a great recording of Book 1) ... and only achieved 100 lines of the Iliad. Geoffrey Steadman (Iliad Books 6 and 22) is sitting untouched on my shelf. Now granted, I almost have those first 100 lines memorized from repeating them so much. It would be fun to push on through and actually finish some of the books! Edited by kanewai on 13 February 2014 at 8:52pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tollpatchig Senior Member United States Joined 3796 days ago 161 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Maltese | Message 26 of 75 13 February 2014 at 9:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
Can I wear an explorer's hat when we go? :3 Also instead of just reading the Gothic Bible can I extend my challenge to coming up with new words to widen the little vocab there is in Gothic? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6698 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 27 of 75 13 February 2014 at 9:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Whatever my meager knowledge, I like the idea of a challenge and will write about my experiences with Old Irish, either in this thread or my (Modern) Irish log. But my reading won't be measured in pages, rather in sentences...
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| Mani Diglot Senior Member Germany imsprachendickicht.b Joined 4694 days ago 258 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, Welsh, Luxembourgish | Message 28 of 75 13 February 2014 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Why o why do you always come up with such interesting challenges when I think I finally have my wanderlust under control and can concentrate on just 1 or 2 languages? ;)
I guess after 4 years it's time to free my grammar and the Whitney (= Sanskrit verb roots) from dust and see if I can remember anything ... so count me in. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4698 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 29 of 75 13 February 2014 at 10:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Kanewai... I am a bit reluctant to suggest you spend another load of money, but Reading Greek is a fantastic series. The main course is based around a lot of text, and then there are followup readers with sizeable extracts from the classics.
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| dmaddock1 Senior Member United States Joined 5222 days ago 174 posts - 426 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Esperanto, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 30 of 75 13 February 2014 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've been meaning to do this for awhile with my Latin, so count me in.
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| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4467 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 31 of 75 14 February 2014 at 12:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm in! Classical Chinese, that'll add some pressure to keep on track with it. :)
(also really makes me tempted to try again and pick up Latin...) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5321 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 32 of 75 14 February 2014 at 12:52am | IP Logged | |||||
Wow, big welcomes to everybody!
Count every 100 lines of inscriptions as 3 to 4 pages and you won't go to far wrong. We have an inscription-friendly counting system for this challenge. :-)
Well, for your first installment, here's the column on the right. :-)  |  |  |  |  | 
mri-imn | sA-ra | nb | xa.w | ra-msi-sw | HqA-iwnw Meriamun | son-Ra | master | crown?-PL | Ramesisu | Heqaiunu …Meriamun, son of Ra, master of crowns(?), Ramesisu Heqaiunu I had to use Wikipedia to translate the various names of Ramses III. The bit about crowns isn't completely clear; there's a couple of homonyms that could work there. A challenge tracker? If people are interested, I can put together a simple, optional challenge tracker on the web. A Twitter-based tracker would actually require more work. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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