Burmese IPA Transcription
Despite my best efforts to transfer this from LibreOffice Writer into WordPress (thank goodness I drafted it there and not here), there were issues with the rendering of certain fonts and tables. So, I’m just going to cheat and embed a PDF here. Please contact me if you’d like...
Pe Maung Htin’s “Missionary Burmese”
It’s with great joy that I was able to find a copy of Pe Maung Htin’s article “Missionary Burmese” from a scan of Vol. 1, Pt. 1 of The Journal of Burma Research Society (JBRS) on The Internet Archive. Since it is out of copyright (under U.S. Law), I...
Learn the Khmer writing system with a PDF I just OCR’d
I took the liberty of downloading Eisel Mazard’s scan of Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader with Drills and Glossary, by Franklin E. Huffman, with assistance from Chhom-Rak Thong Lambert & Im Proum. After downloading, I ran it through Scan Tailor, and OCR’d it (English only, I’m afraid)....
RIP Laoshu505000
I’m actually a couple of days late on posting this, but besser spät als nie, as they say. Moses “Laoshu” M. McCormick, polyglot and YouTuber from Akron, Ohio, has passed away due to heart complications, according to what his sister wrote on GoFundMe. This is very sad news, since...
Coming back to Duolingo
Duolingo is an app designed to help people learn the basics of languages. Currently, the app offers 35 different courses taught in English. Some of the courses include Latin, Esperanto, Klingon, K’iche’ (available in Spanish only), Bokmål, Swahili, Irish, and Scottish Gaelig. My initial criticism When I first used...
The disappointing reality of not needing to speak Burmese to make it big in Burma (MM)
When I first learned Burmese, I didn’t know exactly to what end I would be learning it. I figured I’d learn it to a high degree of fluency (at least B2) and then go into the academic field of Linguistics as a professor. I never actually thought I would...
How COVID-19 deterred me from learning Urdu
Yangon has a lot of Indians. I mean, a lot of Indians. When I first arrived in Yangon, I noticed their presence and I found it very peculiar that are were Indian in every single way, except for the language they speak. The majority of the Indians I met...