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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2007-04-19 11:45 am

Amharic to Zulu

I ended up doing an on-the-fly inventory of my language-learning titles last night and I've decided I need to buy books on Quechua and Xhosa so I can have all 26 letters of the alphabet covered.

Would anyone be interested in a [livejournal.com profile] princeofcairoenesque eliptony core sample of them? I've got enough for over a year of weekly updates.

[identity profile] zompist.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, that's my shtick! Why not learn Quiche instead...?

Actually, the problem I've always had with Quechua is finding good learning materials. The best textbook I've found is Clotoaldo Soto Ruiz's for Ayacucho Quechua. (It has a set of tapes, too, but those I had to get in Peru.)

[identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2007-04-19 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought you'd love having someone to practice with!

I'd go for Quapaw instead if I could only find materials. Even though it's supposed not to be mutually intelligible with Osage, it's close enough that I could pick it up without much trouble.