Yay Language Learning!

It's been not so long since I last wrote about language learning... and now I'm actually going to have a chance to improve my old language skills. Or, to be more precise: Learn some medieval French.

I chanced across information about an online course on medieval French, held through CHASE, and open to graduate students affiliated with CHASE (which is a collaboration of a number of British universities listed here). My first thought was that that is a very cool idea, and something like that course would have been enormously helpful back when I was working on my thesis.

My second thought was that it would be enormously helpful still, as my medieval French is about, hm, non-existant. I can read modern French allright, and I used to be able to speak it passably (gone all rusty from disuse now, though). So, because it's online, and because learning a language is good brain training, and because there's nothing to lose, I asked whether it might be possible to join in if there were free spaces left. To my great delight, I just received notice that it is, and I did get in!

I certainly get the impression that couses like that are getting more frequent these days, with the corona-induced restrictions lowering the resistance to trying out digital solutions. (Which, if you ask me, is certainly a good thing.) And I'm beyond thrilled to be able to finally get some medieval French skills!