Latin- Bradley’s Arnold: no progress since last update.
- Erasmus’ Colloquia: after the introductory dialogic exercises in paraphrase, I’ve finally reached the actual dialogues.
- Lanctatius’ Epitome: sections 30–47. A few pages a day and I can finish it before 2022.
Greek- Xenophon’s Ἑλληνικά: up to 6.1.16. Ten or so pages a day and I can finish this before 2022.
- Plato’s Πολιτεία: will resume after finishing Xenophon.
- Prose composition: stalled. I think I need to find more interesting ways of producing Greek, at least for a while.
German- Buscha and Szita’s A-Grammatik: progressing steadily.
- Dichter, Denker und Erzähler: pp. 1–67. I had forgotten that I tried to read my university’s copy of this book a few years ago; back then, I eventually gave up because it was too hard. Now it seems right at my level. Always pleasant to see evidence of progress.
- Listening: some Tatort with subtitles, some YouTube videos.
SpanishSome podcast listening, not much else. I’ve enjoyed trying out some recommendations on old threads here on the forum.
ItalianIn 2016 or so, I started reading Elena Ferrante’s
L’amica geniale on Kindle. I read maybe 70% of it and then lost interest. Now I’m close to finishing it; oddly enough, it might be the first complete book I’ll have read in Italian – mostly I use Italian for academic articles and book chapters.
PersianI have kinda sorta learned the Persian alphabet, mostly with a
Memrise course. I'm finding it harder than I think it should be. Multiple characters are still fuzzy, but I’m comfortable enough to use Sobhani’s
Persisches Lehr- und Lesebuch. We’ll see . . . I’m reading Ferdowsi in translation, which is helping keep my motivation up. There really seems to be a dearth of help for learning the Persian alphabet; I'm guessing that's not true for Arabic, but since there are some differences, I wanted to stick with specifically Persian resources.
Lycopersicon wrote:Fantastic! If you like living classical languages, you will have a great time with Persian!
Thanks! I'm excited.