I just thought, you may want to know about (although you may
already) the Northern Illinois Univ. website that has lots of
Lao Language learnign material on it. They even have
recordings. I have two students who study Lao with me and they
find it very useful. I think its a great site.
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/lao/
You also might want, for general Lao stuff, look at my new
wesbite. Its in progress, but, most of the links work: tlc.ucr.edu
Best,
jm
---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:45:03 +0700
>From: "Eisel Mazard" <Parajanaka@...>
>Subject: [palistudy] The peculiar and the profound
>To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
>
>Thank you very much for that citation, Justin --I would have
no other
>way of learning of such books' existence. I was shocked that
I had
>access to several important/basic books that Wharton &
Hundius were
>lacking --so, generally, we're all re-inventing the wheel
around here.
>
>There is something to be said for writing _ex nihilo_ --you
certainly
>don't reproduce the errors of others --but make errors for
yourself.
>As I recently said to a colleague, "We learn nothing from making
>errors, but only from noticing and redressing them".
Hopefully, we'll
>have enough scholars in mutual correspondence around here to draw
>attention to one-another's errors.
>
>If you look at the number of Western scholars found variously in
>Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, and Vientiane,
you have
>a varied and interesting pool of talent --but they do not
have any
>common plenary or conference, nor any common contact with an
>instituion in the region. It would be fruitful to somehow
put (e.g.)
>the Center for Khmer studies (Siem Reap) into contact with
the Center
>for Burmese Studies in Chiang Rai, etc. etc. --currently,
we're all
>isolated.
>
>Although I now "know" Harald & David, we still have no
"affiliation"
>in any kind of philological organization; I even have e-mail with
>Filliozat & Skilling once in a while (they're both in
Bangkok) --but
>none of these people know one-another.
>
>We should talk to Kate Crosby and get SOAS to have an annual
>conference in Champasak or something. We could all worship
the giant
>stone elephant.
>
>On an even sillier note: do you have (or know of) any publication
>where I could find the (Lao) lyrics for the various National
Anthems
>and Patriotic songs that I see/hear on Lao TV? This would be
a really
>useful means of language practice for me --but I can't sing
along if I
>don't first study the words on paper, decode them with a
dictionary,
>etc.
>
>E.M.
>
>
>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
909-827-4530
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