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    How To Actually Learn Any Language

    06/03/2026 | 17 mins.
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    This is a summary of what I think is the best approach to learning a language, based on my experience mastering a foreign language as an adult. 
    Here you can download the software that I mentioned, Anki: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
    Here is a page of links to word-frequency lists for German; similar lists can be found online for many other languages: 
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/German
    The cover art is from the painting "Before the Audience," which Jean-Leon Gerome completed in 1881.
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    Discussing "The Life Of Saint Louis" By Jean De Joinville

    28/02/2026 | 39 mins.
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    In this episode of Canonball we discuss "The Life Of Saint Louis," which Jean de Joinville completed in 1309. 
    The cover art for this episode is a painting titled Louis IX that Émile Signol completed in 1844.
    The other painting I mentioned is Saint Louis Mediating Between the King of England and His Barons which Georges Rouget completed in 1820 and can be found here.
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    Discussing The Fragments Of Heraclitus

    22/02/2026 | 38 mins.
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    In this episode of Canonball we discuss the fragments of Heraclitus, who lived in the sixth and fifth centuries BC. 
    The cover art for this episode is The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, which JMW Turner completed in 1834 or 1835.
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    Discussing "The Libation Bearers" By Aeschylus With Evan

    15/02/2026 | 1h 15 mins.
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    In this video, Evan and I discuss "The Libation Bearers," which is the second play in the Aeschylus' trilogy Oresteia.
    The cover art for this episode is from Orestes Pursued by the Furies, which William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1862.
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    Discussing "The Civilization Of The Renaissance In Italy" By Jacob Burckhardt

    08/02/2026 | 47 mins.
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    In this episode of Canonball we discuss "The Civilization Of The Renaissance In Italy," which was written by Jacob Burckhardt and published in 1860. 
    Get a copy of my edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at my website: 

    VollrathPublishing.com

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In this podcast we discuss the European literary canon and the history, culture, philosophy, art, and science that surrounds it.
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