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Aug. 14th, 2009 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hawkwing_lbI remember someone telling me once that doggedness and determination can make up for native talent, and stubbornness is a perfectly adequate substitute for brilliance.
I hope they were right.
It turns out that the majority of the texts I'll need for my thesis are written in French or German, or are papyrological corpuses which do not have complete translations from the Greek. The German is a loss, of course. But I'm going to be spending the next month with a dictionary and my very rusty bad French, nose down over a copy of Le culte d'Isis dans le bassin Mediteranée and other works by either Francoise Dunand or Jean-Claude Grenier.
There are some English works, of course, and some translations of French ones. Not quite enough, though.
I'm not particularly talented where it comes to picking up languages - hell, I'm clever, but I'm a B student across the board, being honest - so I'm very, very daunted.
Not quite daunted enough to give up, though, so maybe I'm not as clever as I think I am.
I hope they were right.
It turns out that the majority of the texts I'll need for my thesis are written in French or German, or are papyrological corpuses which do not have complete translations from the Greek. The German is a loss, of course. But I'm going to be spending the next month with a dictionary and my very rusty bad French, nose down over a copy of Le culte d'Isis dans le bassin Mediteranée and other works by either Francoise Dunand or Jean-Claude Grenier.
There are some English works, of course, and some translations of French ones. Not quite enough, though.
I'm not particularly talented where it comes to picking up languages - hell, I'm clever, but I'm a B student across the board, being honest - so I'm very, very daunted.
Not quite daunted enough to give up, though, so maybe I'm not as clever as I think I am.
