Surfing Non-English Wikipedia
When I'm bored, sometimes I click on random languages in the side bar of Wikipedia, just to see what they look like. Like this:
http://am.wikipedia.org
Does anyone else here do that?
Yeah, I've done it before. What's nice is trying to read the langs that I am mildly familiar with and finding out how good or bad I am at it.
Yeah, I can see it as a way to gain exposure to a language while learning it (I can use that when I eventually get around to learning Norwegian).
I do it all the time. I was glad when I recently found out that there was even a 'pedia in Old Church Slavonic. http://cu.wikipedia.org/
Yeah, there are several archaic letters that are exclusive to Church Slavonic, that is, you wouldn't see them in Russian or any modern languages written in Cyrillic.
I wouldn't expect anyone other than someone who studies Church Slavonic to know them.
It's kind of ironic when you're reading a page about the US in Romanian.
"Primul preşedinte al Statelor Unite ale Americii, George Washington, a servit în funcţie două mandate, între 1789 şi 1797."
That's just irony in the extreme.
I ALWAYS do that..
like all the time. It's so much fun.
Yeah it's pretty much the same as reading about Micul Prinţ and how well it has done in English.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias
