A Sign of Life after Quite Some Time

The first post in somewhat over 2 months, just to let you know I'm still around

Dear Readers and Subscribers,

Terribly sorry though I am that I have remained silent on my Substack, I am very happy to let you know that I have been doing quite okay learning languages (Albanian and Romanian - I am busy making some grammatical overview of Albanian and filling some spreadsheets with standard vocabulary that I encounter in my textbook - which is this one. It is worthy to note that the accompanying audio files of all the texts and dialogues contained therein can be downloaded for free).

Apart from the usual language learning -which has been, to be quite frank, so far a more frustrating than a rewarding process, but I’ll keep trying every day- I have just recently managed to publish an article on the website Digital Orientalist in which I present and discuss a repository of endangered manuscripts from Southeast Asia. You can read it here.

For the sake of completeness, I also present you with the first article I authored on the Digital Orientalist, that one can be found here. This one is about Twitter and some highlights that may be of interest to those interested in the field of non-Western philology. I feel this older article has stood the test of time rather well, notwithstanding the vicissitudes to which Twitter have been subjected also in the past couple of months: At least the accounts I recommended there are still on Twitter! Truth be told, however: Twitter may currently be bracing for nothing short of a final crash, or a descent into chaos, as argued in this article (not written by yours truly!).

Finally, I would like to re-emphasize that translations in parts of a Classical Chinese text will appear on my Substack. Part 1 of it, the only one currently published on here, can be reached by clicking on this link. I will also try to entertain you with small translations of other texts, also from other languages, every now and then in the remainder of 2023. If you would like to be informed more about languages I am working on, such as (modern) Romanian and Albanian that I am currently seriously attempting to learn, please do leave a comment with any further ideas or questions that you may want to share with me.

Having said that, you can always hit me up by sending a comment on this post (or any post, really) on here. All respectful feedback, suggestions, questions, and tips & tricks (ways to get my hands on Open Access sources for learning languages and obtaining texts of interest - those would be of extraordinarily special interest to me ^^) will be very much welcome and received with the utmost gratitude by yours truly!

Take care, until next time, and thank you very much for bearing with me!