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Tomasz (Ma)ksymil(ian) Majtczak
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Working on Old & Classical Japanese, historical grammar of Japanese, sometimes also Yiddish or Old Turkic; interested in historical linguistics and etymology. 📍 Kraków, Poland 🔗 https://sites.google.com/site/hublshpener
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Antonio Manieri: Writing and Rewriting Wooden Tablets in Seventh- and Eighth-Century Japan: The Mokkan Used for Learning

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Free to download for two weeks only!

Starting today, you can download my new book:
Between Yahwism and Judaism: Judean Cult and Culture during the Early Hellenistic Period (332–175 BCE)

Download it now, and read it later.

Please share and spread the word!

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The Gotha Manuscript Talks are back! Starting today, all four lectures are open to the public. Join the event here:
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@fbgotha.bsky.social
We will be completing the fifth year of the Gotha Manuscript Talks this fall with four exciting lectures! This Wednesday, Tal Hever-Chybowski @unihalle.bsky.social speaks about the Yiddish book collection assembled by the bookseller, furniture maker, and animation filmmaker Betsalel Frenkel.
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Rasos Cemetery has inscriptions in variuos languages, mainly in Polish, but also in Lithuanian and Belarusian.
Tatar mosque in Kruszyniany, North-Eastern Poland.
Orthodox church on Mt Grabarka in North-Eastern Poland.
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The Asahi has a new simplified Japanese news site, to help language learners, children and the elderly. Around 3 articles a day are written with easy vocabulary and grammar. There are also options to toggle furigana, and spacing between words. yasashii.asahi.com
やさしい朝日新聞
やさしい日本語でニュースを紹介します
yasashii.asahi.com
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Su゙kitaru fa nawo oyo゙fa゙saru ゙ka ゙kotosi.
過ぎたるは猶及ばざるがごとし

What an apt characterization of this romanization scheme. 😼
The same in Carlo Valenziani’s 1897 Italian translation of Kotowazagusa 諺草 by Kaibara Yoshifuru 貝原好古, following Severini (I have never seen it myself, so says its reviewer Giovanni Vacca).
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Ich freue mich, eine aktualisierte Fassung meiner Blogseite zu chinesischer Literatur in deutscher Übersetzung anzeigen zu können:

Aktuelle Liste aller literarischen Übersetzungen aus dem Chinesischen ins Deutsche seit 2000
2000 年以来中文文学德译作品全览

blogs.fu-berlin.de/andreasguder...
Aktuelle Liste aller literarischen Übersetzungen aus dem Chinesischen ins Deutsche seit 2000 / 2000 年以来中文文学德译作品全览 – Blog von Andreas Guder: Schriftzeichen und andere Kleinigkeiten
blogs.fu-berlin.de
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With the new term commencing, take a look at our Michaelmas 2025 Term Programme!

Here you'll find activities sponsored by the OCHJS, the Centre of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (AMES, University of Oxford) and the Faculty of Theology and Religion!

www.ochjs.ac.uk/news/term-pr...

#oxford
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thumb notch | noun | a notch of a size to admit the tip of a thumb cut in the outer edges of the pages of a book for the insertion of index letters or headings
The guy in the back raising his hand:
“Could you please get off my foot?”
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I'm starting a free online course for readers and learners in Balochistan to explore literature and translation across Urdu, Persian, and English.
Places limited to the first fifteen sign-ups.
Message me here or email at [email protected] to register
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There’s still time to sign up for our Farsi + Akkadian reading groups!

I wouldn’t want you to miss out - they promise to be lots of fun!
New this term: reading groups!

We’ll meet for 1 hour a week for 8 weeks on Zoom and read through a grammar of a new language together.

This term we’re doing Farsi + Akkadian.

It’ll be free to join for those taking a course and only cost $25 otherwise.

Sign up here:

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📢 Ważne dla osób planujących studia na kierunku #japonistyka na @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social ‼️
Od 2026 inne kryteria rekrutacji. Obowiązują 3️⃣ przedmioty z matury (a nie jak dotąd 2):
⏵ język polski
⏵ język angielski
⏵ drugi język obcy lub matematyka
Więcej: japonistyka.io.filg.uj.edu.pl/rekrutacja
Dla kandydatów - Zakład Japonistyki i Sinologii - Instytut Orientalistyki
japonistyka.io.filg.uj.edu.pl