Proud of Myself.

The other day I was comparing the Vulgate to a critical edition of the Greek New Testament, and later I spent time memorizing some Hebrew vocab.

I'm very happy with how far I've come with those languages (though there's so much farther to go with all of them).

My one Dutch friend who I met through my one Dutch friend complimented me last spring on my finishing Hebrew.

"Congratulations, you're now a vir trilinguis!", he said.

He studies the early modern period, so is all about the model of Jerome and knowing Hebrew, Greek, and Latin (=the three languages of the phrase vir trilinguis).

The phrase can come off as pretentious (though it didn't at the time), but it def. helped me recognize my accomplishment.