Re: VW (was: Digest 2 Apr)
From: | Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> |
Date: | Friday, April 6, 2001, 2:08 |
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, David Stokes wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > YHL, dreaming friendly Mongol-inspired dreams
>
> My girlfriend and I are struggling to teach ourselves Mongolian right now
> so my own Mongol-inspired dreams are a little more like nightmares. ;)
>
> Actually, Mongolian is a really cool language. Converbs are oing to have
> to show up in one of my languages soon.
>
> But the language tapes we have are were made in England and for we
> Americans its sometimes easier to understand the Mongolian than the
> English on them.
JOOC, where'd you get the tapes? Do you recommend 'em (other than the
British accent)? I started learning a little (written) Turkish because
it was the closest thing I could find in the bookstore to Mongolian.
:-p (Not that Turkish isn't a neat language in itself...)
YHL
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