26 May 2009
Friends of ours recently emailed about Textkit. This is a website devoted to learners of Latin and Greek that makes public-domain texts available, including textbooks, literal translations and answer keys. Among these are two books on Latin prose composition (including an answer key for one) and five on Greek composition (including three keys). There is [...]
23 May 2009
As I am interested in the variety of languages, dialects and accents, I was interested by the following web sites. One is Sounds Familiar? from the British Library; this site has recordings of various regional pronunciation and usage from throughout the British Isles. A similar site is Voices, a large series of interviews done by [...]
20 May 2009
My grandfather in Belgium emailed this to me this week. I especially like the cadence before the fugue. […]
18 May 2009
Since I enjoy learning languages, I often need to learn quite a few words. I have used Linux (Ubuntu 8.10, to be specific) quite extensively, and it is through it that I came across the spaced-repetition program Mnemosyne (named after the Greek goddess of memory). This light-weight program functions almost like traditional flash cards, except [...]
13 May 2009
A long time ago, someone showed to us the books by the Swedish children’s author Astrid Lindgren about the little urchin Emil of Lönneberga. The stories are about an angelic-looking but prank-playing little boy. He plays pranks all the time, including once hoisting his little sister up a flagpole—although he claims no blame for them. “You don’t make up pranks, they just happen,” he says.
Every time Emil plays a prank, he locks himself in a tool shed to escape his father. He doesn’t mind this, though; he enjoys sitting there and whittling a wooden figure each time. Eventually he accumulates 369 little figures (although his mother buries one of them because it looks too much like the country minister). […]
11 May 2009
I recently created a couple of keyboard layouts for Windows. The first is the same as the normal United States keyboard, but with many special characters (including ‘real quotes’ instead of straight quotes—and a real dash instead of the two-hyphen substitute) available with the right Alt key. There are also dead keys, which allow one [...]
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