So, my language goals and learning are all over the place right now. Haven't done so much with Uyghur or Chinese since the end of the semester. I will start doing more starting with the new year because I hope to have more time not taken away by crazy stressful things.
As of New Years, I was hoping to complete the first passive wave of my Assimil Japanese Vol 1 book and move on to the second book, but that will have to wait until later this week because I am at 42 of the 49 lessons. I was more consistent than I thought, but not quite there. I am also working through the third lesson of my Lingua Latina book, which is fun because there is no English, only Latin. I haven't tried to use a dictionary yet, but I can figure out what things say. I think this will bring my Latin skills up to a reasonable level again rather quickly.
I am thinking about trying to do some Uyghur research in Japan. I've heard a lot about Japanese interest in the region, and I would be curious to know the motivations and the effects of that. I hear that there are some older Uyghur texts that exist in Japan, that probably do not elsewhere because of the shear awesomeness of China's preservation of historical and literary documents.
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