Heh, the last book I did “Life and Times of Joseph Warren” was really hard for me to read...it had a whole paragraph of French, another paragraph somewhere of...Latin, and...a song patriots of the Revolution sang to the famous tune of “British Grenadiers”.
The French...I hope to God I never run into a French person (or anyone who knows French) because it was really damn hard. I ran it through a google thing that played it, and I had to write it down phonetically. It was terrible, and I don’t think I did a good job.
I work in medicine, so the Latin part was easier...I can figure out most Latin words.
And the song? I wasn’t going to sing it and just dictate it, but...it sounded so flat and dead just reading it, that I gave it a shot at singing it. That was fun, but I don’t have any illusions about how well it came out, but...I think it is just barely passable! I did kind of enjoy that, because I like the song. It is one of those songs (”British Grenadiers”) that when you hear it, you know it already because you have probably heard it played dozens of times in your life, and it is quite catchy!
Ha ha That sounds like it was quite challenging.