A while back, I wrote about Karen Thomson's quest to rescue Vedic Sanskrit from the Indologists. This week, I got hold of the lyrics to Rasa's "Prabhupada-padam." It turns out they are from a poem in Sanskrit. Not knowing much in the way of Sanskrit, I...

In my last post, I commented:Now might be an amusing time to review last year’s resolutions...I decided to do just that. Now, last year I set intentions, not resolutions, and I think I'm sticking with that. So, here are last year's intentions, with...

The other day, I needed a flashlight. Sure enough, the batteries in my regular one were dead. I did have another flashlight, one of those models where you turn a crank to charge the built in battery. I tend to avoid this one because you have to turn...

The other day, I wrote about using bilingual texts to get to know bits of a language the same way a child comes to know the content of a story book. There's another possibility, of course, and that's getting your iPod to read you the same story over...

If you've ever wanted to learn a little Gothic, but wading though Wulfilas' Bible translations wasn't where you wanted to start, boy is there a site for you! Gothic for Goths is a handful of youtube lessons (so far) with copies of the scripts,...