Textual Criticism is Inherently Metal

4th year uni student taking religious studies and history, while trying to learn languages for that and other purposes

[languagessi-deactivated20210423]

Khmer Resources

Memrise

Live Lingua

BABADADA

Learn Khmer Now

Learn Khmer Naturally

Khmer Language

Khmer Language

Learn Khmer

Cambodian for Beginners (PDF)

Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader with Drills and Glossary (PDF)

South-East Asian: Austro-Asiatic: Khmer (MEGA)

Khmer Resources (Tumblr)

English-Khmer Dictionary

Omniglot

Wikipedia

Wiktionary

Wikitravel

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

Seasite (the first “khmer langauge” link) is the website I have found to be the most useful, by far. It’s interface is kind of outdated, but it has so much information and so many useful recordings, especially if you are trying to learn to read. Bongthom also has good content, but site navigation is so frustrating I don’t use it unless it has something I can’t find on Seasite. Also, on bongthom it’s impossible to copy and paste the khmer text as text, rather than as much less useful images of text. 

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

The ubiquitous nature of Indo-European languages is such a trip bc according to the pop linguistics stuff I've been reading the majority of languages have tones and the majority of langauages have no gendered pronouns like wtf

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

I used to make fun of people who think that the hardest part of learning hebrew is the new alphabet because like, that was the easiest that class ever got but now with Khmer and its SEVENTY FOUR letters that are kicking my ass I have changed my formerly judgemental ways

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

I finally finished anki cards for all the consonants so only like still hundreds more cards to make!! 

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

I used to make fun of people who think that the hardest part of learning hebrew is the new alphabet because like, that was the easiest that class ever got but now with Khmer and its SEVENTY FOUR letters that are kicking my ass I have changed my formerly judgemental ways

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

I’m done classes and exams and I don’t have a job so now i have no excuses to not work on my language projects!

[historical-nonfiction]

The largest alphabet in the world is used to write the Khmer language, spoken in Cambodia, and has 74 letters. The smallest alphabet is used to write the Rotokas language, a language spoken by around 4,300 people in Papua New Guinea, and has just 12 letters.

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

I sent my prof an 8 page draft and he sent back 6 pages of comments🙄

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

I lost my voice halfway through Greek class today and my prof, unprompted, stopped asking me to read?? He never does that

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

Guess who's gonna learn Russian! I need a piece of this cash lmao

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

Got placed in level א for a modern hebrew class which honestly isnt surprising but is sort of a bummer

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

LIke two years ago I spent literally 36 hours studying for this exam because I wanted to pull my grade up to an A+, and honestly I hate that I did that for such an unimportant class because it depresses me that I have not been that dedicated to a single project since then, even things that I both care about more and are objectively more important

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

I gotta get serious about modern Hebrew bc I said on an app that I have "limited" ability in it so I need to work my way up to "limited" in case I ever get called on it.

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

I'm trying to learn modern Hebrew bc I have sorta a head start but learning a spoken language is stupid because all of a sudden pronunciation matters so much😑 I can't roll my Rs and it's terrible.

[sociolinguo]

Here Are Rules of Using Emoji You Didn't Know You Were Following

A computational linguist reveals that there are patterns to our madness

A computational linguist reveals that there are patterns to our madness

[youcouldmakeaconlangoutofthat]

My mom just expressed shock when she realized I could read hebrew words. Like the words, in the hebrew alphabet. Which like... what did she think I have been doing for the past year and a half??

[tranarchist]

Asking the real questions

[titleknown]

Fun fact, this is actually part of a larger series on the most practical medieval weapons for fantasy species.

And it’s legit good too, given the dude who does ‘em also studies these kinds of things for a living!

[waluwadjet2-deactivated20180727]

this series looks super interesting and entertaining and im gonna check it out but goddam if this isnt the funniest name for a video ive ever seen

[roadtripdad]

@nettlewildfairy

[inn-dagstjarna]

What did Old Norse sound like?

[godsinthemountains]

Okay so this dude with a doctorate?? Who specializes is Old Norse??? Just makes his instructional videos in the middle of the wilderness in the Midwest??????

[la-centrojas]

important norse myth content for @spiritspodcast