{"id":1890,"date":"2011-08-27T20:57:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T00:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2011-10-02T04:40:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T08:40:52","slug":"a-time-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2011\/08\/27\/a-time-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"A time to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I decided to test my capacity to focus on language for a while. \u00a0It has been some time since I absorbed a lot of language in one sitting — back when I was browsing the English dictionary for various arbitrary competitions; and then again briefly when I learned the Chinese radicals and elementary characters.<\/p>\n

So I picked up my available Hebrew, Arabic, and Farsi texts (only one of the latter, but a beautiful one) and sat down to work. \u00a0I find it much more interesting to pick up the family in some sort of synch, since there are always interesting patterns to observe at a higher level, while engaging in fairly repetitive work. \u00a0 writing practice. \u00a0We’ll see how far this gets.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Current progress<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hebrew<\/td>\n30%, 25%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arabic<\/td>\n5%, 20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Farsi<\/td>\n8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Today I decided to test my capacity to focus on language for a while. \u00a0It has been some time since I absorbed a lot of language in one sitting — back when I was browsing the English dictionary for various arbitrary competitions; and then again briefly when I learned the Chinese radicals and elementary characters. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[211,213],"tags":[620,5070,621],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-metrics","tag-arabic","tag-farsi","tag-hebrew"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-uu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}