Κυριακή, Μαΐου 28, 2006

Harry buys a bunch of stuff with weird names

Changed the site name to nicophon.blogspot.com. (sorry for the inconvenience)

Progress for the last week has been OK, though over half of my progress was made this weekend.

Current Page 100
Number of pages read 18
Total Vocab (jMemorize) 304
Vocab Learned Since Last Blog 200

Harry's at Diagon Alley. O.M.G. What a vocabulary nightmare. I thought that perhaps most of the specialized magical vocabulary might be borrowed from the English. But that certainly wasn't the case. Not only where there a lot of words that I didn't know, but many of the words were rare and specialized words that I couldn't find in my Greek-English dictionary or the various online resources that I had some seem to be words from Greek folk literature. The result being that it took me a ton of time to look up many of the words which I might very well never run into again, outside of Harry Potter.

Still the story is great fun and my progress has been constant. In a few short pages Harry will have his magic wand and he'll be off to platform 9 and 3/4 (πλακφόρμα 9 και 3/4). After that I'm hoping that I'll start seeing some real progress.