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Tag Archives: language
Podcast of the Week: Butterfly Spanish
My podcast time in recent weeks has been largely devoted to listening to lessons on YouTube; I’ve been trying to restore my high school Spanish for several months now, using an app called DuoLingo on a daily basis and studying … Continue reading
The Adventure of English
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language© 2011 Melvyn Bragg336 pages In The Adventure of English, Melvin Bragg delivers a mythic history of the language that treats our lingua franca as a living personality — battered and now … Continue reading
Who Killed Homer?
Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom© 1998 Victor Davis Hanson290 pages For hundreds of years, the study of the classics was at the heart of a liberal education, thought essential to the … Continue reading
The Mother Tongue
The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way© 1990 Bill Bryson270 pages “More than 350 million people around the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seem, try to.” While I’m reading this as part of a … Continue reading