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I just bookmooched a B&W (pirated?) copy of the Oxford Latin Course: Part I, which was the textbook we used in my Latin classes at IASMH. What better way to celebrate than by asking a bunch of random questions from *Jenney's First Year Latin?* )

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...finally occurred in my Chinese class yesterday, where I kept substituting Sino-Korean numbers into the example sentences (Jintian chil-dian shi-p'al fen) and using on'yomi (IOW the way the pronunciations of 6-13th century Chinese characters sounded to Japanese speakers) instead of the modern day Chinese pronunciations for said numbers. Boy howdy.

It also turns out that a guy in the advanced class is half-Japanese and grew up in Kanagawa-ken. We started a conversation in good ole Nihongo, during which time the Chinese/Korean/Japanese/English muddle in my head reached its apogee, and I ended up sounding as though I'd spent five days in the Dai Nippon, instead of years. Gah.

To top it off, the teacher of my Thursday Chinese class (who is a doorbell, btw) speaks a completely different dialect than does the teacher of Wednesday's class. Or rather, I think they speak a similar dialect, only Wednesday's teacher usually corrects her own pronunciation (although she never explains why), while Mr. Thursday just rolls with it. Good stuff.

And on a completely different language note, the new Latin textbook will be arriving in the mail any day now. Euge!

That will be all.

Ack.

Jan. 7th, 2007 12:57 pm
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Nine more days until my grad school apps are due. Even though I have taken care of everything it is possible for me to do, I still feel like I'm forgetting something. Or that everything will get lost in the mail. Or that I'm the least brilliant person who's ever applied and I'm going to spend the rest of my life in W-town. So, ack.

And in a totally unrelated question, [livejournal.com profile] sara_tanaquil, is there anything like the JLPT for Latin? I think I would be able to study more efficiently if I had something toward which to work. I took the National Latin Exam in high school, but I don't think you can take it if you aren't formally studying somewhere.

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