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A time to learn
Saturday August 27th 2011, 8:57 pm
Filed under: international,metrics

Today I decided to test my capacity to focus on language for a while.  It has been some time since I absorbed a lot of language in one sitting — back when I was browsing the English dictionary for various arbitrary competitions; and then again briefly when I learned the Chinese radicals and elementary characters.

So I picked up my available Hebrew, Arabic, and Farsi texts (only one of the latter, but a beautiful one) and sat down to work.  I find it much more interesting to pick up the family in some sort of synch, since there are always interesting patterns to observe at a higher level, while engaging in fairly repetitive work.   writing practice.  We’ll see how far this gets.

Current progress
Hebrew 30%, 25%
Arabic 5%, 20%
Farsi 8%

 

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