Introduction to my brief language mission
With just two weeks left of 2014, I’ve decided to set myself a little language mission to round off the year, which I’ll start logging here from today.
I’ve been a big fan of Egyptian hieroglyphics since I was a child, round-eyed in awe at the esoteric symbols and mysterious designs I encountered from time to time in movies and museums. Over the years, I’ve even tried to learn a few of these symbols along the way, but nothing serious.
Altogether, I’ve read a couple of chapters of Manley and Collier’s “How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs”, and I also managed to skim lightly through several early lessons in Assimil’s “L’Egyptien Hieroglyphique” back in 2012-2013. However, like Ozymandias’ dynasty, whatever little I’ve learned has long since fallen into the dust, leaving few if any relics of this ancient knowledge behind.
My goal for this mission is to resurrect my Middle Egyptian brain cells from their otherwise predestined entombed slumber, and complete the first half of Assimil’s “L’Egyptien Hieroglyphique” by the end of the year. This gives me just 14 days to complete 50 chapters in whatever hours I can steal for myself outside work, study, and holiday pandemonium. With reality checks fluttering about like autumn leaves, desperately vying for attention in the back of my mind, I realize my mission is probably a step or two optimistic, but hey…isn’t striving for the high branch half the fun when you’re seemingly out of your tree.
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