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Antonio Basoli

Ancient Worlds - BBC Two

Episode 2 “The Age of Iron”

The ruins of the Royal Palace of Ugarit (picture n. 1: one of the entrances to the palace)

The city-state of Ugarit was one of the great cities of the Bronze Age. The Canaanite sea port city flourished as a trade centre in the 14th century BC but sometime around the 1.190s the city declined and then came to an end. On excavation of the site, several deposits of clay cuneiform tablets in many languages were found. The local alphabetic script that records the native Semiticlanguage called the “Ugaritic” was one of the first proper alphabets.

The Royal palace was the residence of the rulers of Ugarit and a centre of international diplomacy. The palace was built in four major stages between the 15th and 13th century BC. It covered an area of 6.500 square metres and it was surrounded by a fortified wall (dating to the 15th century BC).

The royal architects created a light, airy interior with a series of courtyards, pools and internal gardens. Today only the ground floor remains but there is evidence of several stairways leading upwards, an indication the palace had at least one further floor. The ground floor was the centre of the palace’s business. Here, court officials received visitors and conducted the local and international bureaucratic business. There was a throne room and a very imposing area that was the centre of the palace’s political life: the bureaucratic courtyard. It was here that scribes produced much of Ugarit’s diplomatic correspondence and commercial and political documentation. Archaeologists identified a room used as the palace’s archive and a necropolis underneath the ground floor of the palace, under two rooms in the northern sector. A large interior palace garden was also identified. The area would have been exclusively for the use of the royal family and their intimate guests.

Ugarit, Ras Shamra, Latakia, Syria

Masterpieces Alphabet. Exhibition in New Jerusalem Museum, Istra, Moscow region

210. 安野光雅. あいうえおの本. 東京: 福音館書店, 1976.

Lots of fun spelling and writing words with magnets last week. Learning goes step by step ans sometimes progresses are so sudden. Those last month, the younger of these two brothers studying together suddenly got more comfortable with this English langage he couldn’t understand before and is now getting closer to his older brother. Careful, big brother ! Ahah ^^
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It’s time to begin our Japanese learning plan

Step 1: Learn the alphabet and correct pronunciation

• To do: (1) learn 10 kana a day (reading, writing, pronunciation, usage), (2) listen to native Japanese speakers and shadow their sounds for better pronunciation. Listen to the news, real life stuff not anime. Unless you want to sound cartoony. After you get the correct sound down then feel free to go watch your favorite anime.
• Time limit: 2 weeks- 1 month

“The Alphabet" 

The Japanese language has 3 writing systems:

• Kana are the syllabic Japanese scripts. There are two kana scripts: hiraganaandkatakana.  Japanese children start to read and write in hiragana before making an attempt to learn some of the two thousand kanji commonly used.   

• Hiragana are sometimes used to write words which would normally written with katakana to make them appear more “feminine”, particularly in comic books and cartoons for young girls. In children’s video games texts are often written entirely in hiragana or katakana.

• Kanji are ideograms, i.e. each character has its own meaning and corresponds to a word.

Japanese is sometimes written in Romaji. Romaji is primarily used for the convenience of foreigners. With Romaji, one can read Japanese without knowing any Japanese writing system. Although there are several systems of Romaji, the most widely used is a modified Hepburn system.

How many kana are there? 

46 (basic set-green), 36 (combined-blue), 25 (dakuten-orange)= 107 each

So to learn 214 kana  doing 10 a day=21.4 days (22 days)

Or if you just focus on the basic set you would be done in about 10 days. Look at the chart and you will see the combined and dakuten are just variations of the basic set.

However you want to learn it is on you. But I want to complete this in 2 weeks. Feel free to use mnemonics and flashcards (widely used program is ANKI)

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Check point:

• Can you identifyall the hiragana and katakana 
• Can you writethem all?
• Can you pronouncethem all?
• Can you translate kana to romaji and vice versa? (side note: once you understand kana don’t use romaji – use your kana- Tell you why later…)
• Can you read a passage in kana or with kanji but with furigana on top. Furigana is the small kana above a kanji to help read.

If you cleared this level move to the next one…Meet the Kanji! Don’t cry. 

-Nisha

Almost …

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36 days of type collages; the project’s finally up on Behance~

I never got round to putting up the last glitches from my participation in 36 Days of Type. It really helped me find a̰ ̠̹͇̭̬̤͎v̠̀o̬̟̮͚i̲̘͇̺̥͜ͅc̶͙̖̲̱̦e̞͚͝ a̻͕͙̦͠n̳̙̖̝̙d̢̩͝ͅ ̷̨̙̥a̢̭̱̯͙̪͇͈̻e̺̗̳̠s̵̢̖̭̘ͅt̶̮͇h͖̥͓͓̲ę͇̘̪̝̬͎̹̞ͅt̻̮̱͈̘i̸̶͍̺͕͉̙͍c̵̢̛̰͚̹ ͏̦͈͠p̷͕̲̩͉͇͕r̨͈̦̼͚͟ͅẹ̼͢f̸̩͖e̢͈̠͕̕r̷̸̰̪̠̠̯̖͍͘ę̗̬̝̀ņ̯̲͕͖ć̱̱̖̫͉͉̺̜͟ẹ̷̥͉̙̥́.̨̧̪̮̙̘̠͉͢