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British School Offers Elvish Lessons

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the tongue-of-the-light-footed dept.

Adair writes "A school in Birmingham, England is offering its students weekly after-hours lessons in Sindarin, a conversational form of Elvish invented by J.R.R. Tolkien and based on Welsh sounds." It won't be long now until the Klingon to Elvish translation books are produced.

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  1. hm by Vlion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Quite frankly I think its cool.
    Latin is something only lawyers need to know: Esparanto is a joke- I've never even seen a Esperanto publication- online or offline.
    Elvish is a basically working language, with writing system.
    Should someone actually know it, they will be quite well prepared to learn another langauge.
    Learning a new langauge involves decoupling ones awareness from their mother tongue(s), and forcing you to be able to "preverbalize" thoughts so as to use the feature of the other language. Trust me- it bites me in my german class about once every few weeks. XD

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