Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

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MorkTheFiddle
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Languages: English (N). Read (only) French and Spanish. Studying Ancient Greek. Studying a bit of Latin. Once studied Old Norse. Dabbled in Catalan, Provençal and Italian.
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Tue Feb 22, 2022 6:13 pm

For whatever reason, I don't see my post from yesterday. But moving right along, as promised, here are some specific posts from my Youtube subscriptions.

Spanish

DW Español

Un sistema agrícola único en el mundo
Nov. 26, 2020
25:48



Ancient Greek

Gonzalo Jerez Sánchez: readings in Ancient Greek

Ἰσοκράτους Πρὸς Δημόνικον (Isócrates, A Demónico / Isocrates' To Demonicus)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifqFyvdGDew
31:10

If the system accepts these, I'll look around for my post from yesterday and repost if necessary. It was a French subscription.
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Wed Feb 23, 2022 6:36 pm

Two of my Youtube subscriptions in French.
The first is Artesquieu:
Serge Berstein analyse les "Vœux présidentiels," 59:30 minutes.

The second is France Inter:
"Je dis basta aux réformes punitives, je veux des réformes heureuses" : Fabien Roussel face au 7/9
1:06:07
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Thu Feb 24, 2022 8:40 pm

Here are two more from my Youtube subscriptions.
The first is the Spanish site
Alba Learning

The second from a French subscription, Documentaire des animaux:
À la rencontre des grizzlis de Yukon, 43:15


Enjoy, if you like them.
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Fri Feb 25, 2022 6:42 pm

Here are two more of my Youtube subscriptions, the first in French, the second Spanish.
Documentaire aviation
Histoire de l'aviation : Destination Lune, 49:31


AMA Audiolibros*
Popol Vuh
(El Libro Sagrado de los Mayas) [Audiolibro Completo en Español]
5:15:24
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:10 pm

Two more of Youtube subscriptions whose videos I can understand.

First, Spanish:
La Cata Musical – I really like this one: shout-out to Eido for mentioning it first.
LA CHICA DE IPANEMA Historia y análisis musical de la canción, 11:13


Second, French:
Documentaire Français
L'expansion de l'Univers est elle infinie Documentaire Français Complet, 52:27


In Ancient Greek, I am filling in the gaps of the DCC Greek 500 frequent words that I rather shamefully have neglected until now. Often the unexpected aorists and perfects, like βεβλήμαι. I'm using the SCAIFE viewer mostly to find and translate as necessary examples in the body of work that Perseus has.
All the words I put in as a text in LWT, and I am looking them up one by one by level of learned, 1 - 5. I've done so far about 30 of the words unknown by me.
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sun Feb 27, 2022 6:03 pm

More of my understandable Youtube subscriptions.
Spanish
BBC Mundo
Gabriel Boric: los desafíos que esperan al presidente electo de Chile | BBC Mundo, 5:33


French
Filmes Documentaires
Egypte, l'empire de l'or - 1/3 - Les guerres des pharaons (2008), 51:49


Also, in Spanish, just today I learned that three people enmeshed in a tragic love affair are not teens, as I suspected, but rather in their mid to late 20s. This surprised me. I don't know why.

In Ancient Greek, my study of words has led me to verb compounds of frequent use. I found a handy list in a pdf of frequent Ancient Greek vocabulary covering 80% of all words used in the body of materials of Perseus. The pdf comes from LSU. If I can find the link again, I'll post it in the Classics study group.
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:39 pm

Still more from my Youtube subscriptions.

French
France Culture*
La première émission de radio en 1921, ils s'en souviennent, 4:50

* Includes French subtitles.

Spanish
Blázquez y Gárate de Psicología
Introversión y Extroversión - Personas Altamente Sensibles, 14:05
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Tue Mar 01, 2022 6:06 pm

Ancient Greek
Listened to about 15 minutes of Plato’s Ion by Ionnis Stratakis. Trying to follow along was a little tough and made me think a bilingual text would work more felicitiously, so I made one for the next reading.
A collection of basic readings might provide scope for learning the basic vocabulary that the Dickenson Core List provides, especially the verbal forms where aorist roots differ from present tense roots. We’ll see. For now the following are on tap
    Poetics of Aristotle, Helen by Euripides, Homeric Hymn II to Demeter, Phaedo and Symposium by Plato, Life of Antony by Plutarch, and Hellenika A and Part 1 of Memorabilia by Xenophon
Spanish
Centro Estudions Ju. L. R.
09 Cristobal Colon y Bartolome De Las Casas, 46:14


French
imineo Documetaires (topics vary)
The Bermuda Triangle - Documentary paranormal, 46:10
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Wed Mar 02, 2022 5:47 pm

Ancient Greek
Study this morning reminded me of the difficulty homonyms can present.
For example, confusion can arise concerning the word
ἦρα
which can be the first person singular aorist of αἴρω, ‘lift up’
or the 3rd person singular imperfect of ἐράω, ‘love’
Perhaps not such a problem when encountered in context, but difficult to find the right one searching the a body of texts for examples, as I have been doing.

More examples from my Youtube subscriptions.
Spanish
Among my favorites are the documentaries about trains, as in this.
DW Documental *
Rumbo al corazón de la Patagonia|DW Documental, 42:25

Subtitles in Spanish auto-generated


French
Le Précepteur
LE STOÏCISME - Vaincre nos émotions, 38:15
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby Herodotean » Thu Mar 03, 2022 2:10 pm

MorkTheFiddle wrote:Ancient Greek
Study this morning reminded me of the difficulty homonyms can present.
For example, confusion can arise concerning the word
ἦρα
which can be the first person singular aorist of αἴρω, ‘lift up’
or the 3rd person singular imperfect of ἐράω, ‘love’
Perhaps not such a problem when encountered in context, but difficult to find the right one searching the a body of texts for examples, as I have been doing.

What corpus are you using?
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