a vast panorama of work

[hawkwing_lb]

You know, it strikes me that if I want to be a scholar of ancient history to any professional level, I need, in the next few years, to learn:

Latin
Classical Greek
Modern Greek (particularly if I get this dig placement in Crete thing)
German for reading
And retrain myself back to where I can actually puzzle out a page of academic writing in French with the aid of a dictionary.

I think, perforce, I will have to let Irish mostly lapse. Is feidir liom fós an Gaeilge a labhairt agus a léimh, provided it's not terribly complex. But I can feel it slipping away, every time I go to grasp after a phrase, and that's annoying.

(It's like maths and physics. I know I have to prioritise my learning, but damn, I hate forgetting stuff.)

We'll see, after the Schols, how this DIY modern Greek learning thing works. If it works out well, we'll try it for the German.

(For Latin, I have a book. And for French, well. I still have all those grammars and dictionaries from when I thought I was going to do French to degree.)

I guess this means I should think about learning Russian, Turkish and Arabic when I'm in my late thirties, rather than any time soon, right?

Ambitions. I has them.