Notes on Persianate India - Mar 2025 - Alex Alejandre

In the 1820s, the East India Company replaced Persian with English

How to Learn Persian - Mar 2025 - Alex Alejandre

Learning Tajiki Persian is faster and more eloquent!

Touring Older Persian Grammars - Feb 2025 - Alex Alejandre

Two hundred years of scholars and adventurers learned and taught Persian to yet more adventurers and scholars

Who Wrote the TY Books? - Aug 2019 - Alex Alejandre

I have a copy of Teach Yourself Turkish, which was first published in 1919 (see page 4.

Old English and Old Norse - Feb 2019 - Alex Alejandre

Old English and Norse were mutually inteligible, but OE literary culture blossomed centuries earlier with Christianization.

Germanic Ablaut - Jul 2017 - Alex Alejandre

Strong verbs are cool.

How to Learn Languages - May 2017 - Alex Alejandre

Here’s a rough sketch of my approach to language learning:

Uniquely Russian Terms - Aug 2015 - Alex Alejandre

A list of ‘untranslatable’ words and idioms.

Good Language Books - Apr 2015 - Alex Alejandre

List of books

Features of Archaic English - Feb 2014 - Alex Alejandre

Much of this applies to poetry, the Graveyard poets, Romantics, Restoration era poets etc.

Archaic Swedish Features - Feb 2014 - Alex Alejandre

Archaic Conjugations All verbs would take -en with I: I ären, I voren, I haden varit, I skolen vara, I måsten, I tror In the present, plurals are like the infinitive, except vi äro: vi hafva In the past, weak verbs had one form, while strong plurals would take -o, some with a different stem vowel (det fanns, de funnos) shared by the subjunctive.