And talking about courses…
Today I decided that Dutch is not the language for me. I tried it on both Duolingo and in a MOOC from Futurelearn, and in the end I surrendered. I can’t make it.
Not at this time.
A pity, really, but I’ll save it for the summer to give it another go.
On the other hand, I am about to start a 30-hours introductory course on ancient Egyptian art – because enrolling in an online course is still the best way to research a novel.
And a course on Egyptian art will help me with both the current AMARNA project and the Corsair story I am preparing for early next year.
The course is offered for free by the Open University in collaboration with the British Museum, and I’ll also get me a certificate of participation in the end.
What’s not to like about this?
Karavansara 
6 December 2017 at 04:36
I can’t actually speak Dutch, but my German makes it possible to understand spoken and written Dutch, Afrikaans too. Similarly I watch German films with Swedish subtitles.
But now I need to learn Italian in order to read Startegie Evolutive 🙂
Thanks for the tip on The Open University, and I wish you good hieroglyphics!
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6 December 2017 at 13:14
Thank you!
I was thinking about offering an online course in Italian, called “Speak Italian like Tarzan” – using adventure novels as reference texts.
I’ll keep you posted 😉
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