Archive: Languages category
I've started reading St. Augustine's Confessions in Latin. Now, it's been almost four years since I studied Latin. Long time. And yet a lot of it's stuck, miraculously. I remember a lot of the endings (they seem to have become a permanent part of me), and ...
In my Music 201 class we talked about St. Augustine and Confessions (and City of God, for that matter). And the little bits we read in class got me really, really excited to read the rest of it. I rather want to read it in Latin (there's ...
After a couple of hours of work, I've finished the Latin edition of Martin Luther's 95 Theses and made it downloadable at Riverglen Press. There are actually two versions: the learner's edition has large print and lots of extra space for making notes between the lines (as well ...
On Blank Slate I have a page, Thailand Links, that I started putting together a while ago. Only got about ten minutes into it before I stopped, and ever since then I've been meaning to work on it. (I ...
When we visited Tryst Press last week, Rob Buchert (the guy who runs the press) mentioned the old German Book of Mormon as a beautiful book, and I of course thought of my copy (which is one of the older editions and is lovely). So yesterday morning I pulled ...
So I found today that Google can translate my page into Spanish, French, German, Italian, even Chinese. Sure, it's machine-translated, but it works and it's really nice how it keeps the same layout. Now I just have to redesign my Wordpress theme so ...
Yesterday afternoon I took a break and wandered through the language section of the library. They recently moved the books to a different set of shelves, so it was like exploring new territory in a way -- very fun. :) I haven't spent much time on learning languages ...
In my linguistic research class right now (meaning this very minute) we're talking about frequency analysis. And I just got an idea: put together a list of the 50 most common Church words (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that is) and then get it translated into ...
