Oh man!!!! I had such a great time when I visited Kyoto. Eat all the amazing food for me!!!
(The only mediocre food that I had was from a sushi conveyor belt restaurant, but...I did it for the conveyor belt.)
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Linguist with an interest in various dead languages (Ancient Greek, Hittite, Sanskrit, Latin...) Ph.D. UCLA, Indo-European Studies; currently an MS student at Uni Stuttgart. Native of Texas.
I enjoy lutes, languages, plants, recorders, and rocks.
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I...have never heard of Robin McKinley, either!
(Furiously scrawls two names on the TBR list.)
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I would like to hear more about this Intisar Khanani.
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...to figure out from context.
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Also...what level of second language learner do you want your writing to be accessible to?
I have been muddling my way through a foreign language and about 90% of my output has probably involved the same 15-20 verbs. I can recognize more, but honestly nouns, adjectives, and adverbs are easier...
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The Beach People
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There is SO MUCH literature. Gilgamesh. Myths. Treaties. Histories. Complaint letters. More material than Latin, IIRC.
And the grammar (while not EASY-easy) is, in fact, easier than Latin.
So that would be my recommendation :)
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If you are saying to yourself, "What is Akkadian?" it is one of the languages written in cuneiform, and it was the English of the Ancient Near East during most of the Bronze Age-- even cultures that did not speak it natively studied it and used it for international correspondence.
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A Grammar Of Akkadian : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A Grammar Of Akkadian J. Huehnergard
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Hi! Linguist of ancient languages here! IMHO the current offerings available for Latin and Ancient Greek are mediocre at best. But if you really want to learn an ancient language from a well-designed instructional guide? I'm going to point you to John Huehnergard's Grammar of Akkadian.
