Re:Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1
by twelvechess on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:15AM
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My 10 year old self would be all over those lessons. Currently I am studying Chinese, but I am wondering how much time does it take to finish the lessons. Also on the technical side, some parts of the website take a lot of time to load and clicking begin lessons on the home page gave me a "Failed to open page". I don't know if its because I am on Safari.
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Might be getting hugged - some of the answers in the first chapter failed to load images, and then the second page failed to load.
This is a really neat page and, while I doubt I’ll ever get far into learning any of it, it’s really cool! For some reason I never stopped to wonder just how much we knew about hieroglyphs and assumed it wasn’t much, and I’m happily surprised!
Re:Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1
by closetkantian on Thursday December 18, 2025 @03:51AM
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If you're studying Chinese, maybe you realized that Chinese writing works in a very similar way.
Re:Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1
by umanwizard on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:10AM
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That isn’t true.
It kinda is? Most Classical Chinese and Egyptian words follow the principle "deficient phonetic + semantic part", it's just that Chinese characters are split into neat squares because most Classical Chinese words are exactly one syllable long. But the general principle is similar enough.