conuly

Not just a teach yourself textbook, but actual lessons with an actual instructor. I told the girls, and they're surprisingly enthused about having their own secret language. Well, it's more secret than their previous idea, which was Yiddish. Maybe it's secret in Oklahoma, where the Cherokee Nation is located, but it's certainly not a secret here in NYC. Their very doctor speaks Yiddish! I don't know why people keep saying it's a "dying" language. Only about half a million people speak it! Of course, I don't know where to learn Yiddish for free other than the usual way, which involves being born to a Yiddish-speaking family and learning via immersion, and I don't know, it seems a bit drastic. So that's not really an option, you know?

Anyway, they're excited enough about this Cherokee idea that I think we may have to do that, and also perhaps learn some history at the same time. The thing is, I don't know that much about history involving the Cherokee other than the Trail of Tears, and right now they got really into The War That Saved My Life, and so we're about to embark on a brave new world of World War II, and that's the Holocaust, and... well, I'd like to not sob my way through the rest of the school year. I mean, why not add in the Armenian Genocide to our history lineup? So I don't know if I'll actually do that much history.