I decided to learn several foreign languages later this year. One of those languages is ancient Egyptian. I bought several books on learning to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for beginners. I need to buy more books before I start teaching myself to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
I'm wondering how much of a challenge this will be with my dyslexia. But I'm up to it.
For the record (in addition to English), I took several years of German in high school and three semesters of Latin during my undergraduate years. I don't know how much help they will be for me to learning reading middle Egyptian.
Here are the books I've bought so far:
1) How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Mark Collier and Bill Manley.
2) Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics by Sir. E. A. Wallis Budge.
I'll see how this project progresses as I get more books...
Interesting project to tackle. Other than the general experience of learning a language (Spanish and German for me), I wouldn't think any modern languages would help much with hieroglyphics and a 3,000 year old non Indo-European language! :-)
ReplyDeleteIt should be interesting, though! Good on you for tackling it.