u/Realistic_Credit_799

I’m getting close to finishing up high school and at school I’m on my 4th year of Italian (upper B2), 3rd year of German (lower B2), and first year of Japanese. Outside of school I’ve recently started a Spanish course and before this year I did 4 years of Latin and one year of French. I’m also trying to find a way to learn Irish, Norwegian, and a bit of Greek mainly on Duolingo so far.

Ideally I’d be liking to reach fluency with all of those languages but I’ll see which suit me better and which don’t. Moving forward I’m hoping to get involved in international affairs and although there might be some other more useful languages for the field, I’ve recently taken an interest in Georgian and Armenian (and a lot more).

Considering the languages I’ve already got started with which of the two would you guys recommend (and considering potential work in international relations). I’m not sure if it matters but I’m interested in the cultures and histories of both and would consider myself a devout catholic (in terms of religious tensions there). On languages, although grammar tends to stump me in terms of where it’s used I find it really interesting and where there might be differences between a spoken and written language I’m not particularly bothered either. I’d say I’m usually keen to learn and can pick up a fair bit of knowledge decently quickly. Alphabets and that are fine too and in terms of where I am now, I live in Australia and am thinking of living abroad after school before uni in the U.S..

Would love to hear your guys’ thoughts if you can decipher the text, thanks so much in advance.

Edit: extra info

I'm sure both parts of this question have been asked and answered a lot, so sorry to create a hassle to anyone answering this again. It also might be better suited to a different sub so sorry for that too.

I've seen a lot of back and forth about the historicity of much of Homer's work (and the broader corpus of his contemporaries' work). Although it was thought of as purely legendary for a long time, there seems to be a bit of evidence that somewhat backs up the contents of the Iliad (Troy VI-VII). Homer also has some historical accuracy in details of armour and other aspects of the war (though imaginably some of this might come down to a few artefacts that survived the Bronze Age Collapse).

From what I've been able to find Homer's works were extensions of a lengthy oral tradition. Given the 300 years between Homer's time and any event that may have happened in Troy/Ilion, how much can we say was properly preserved through this oral tradition. Can we look past cumulative human errors to understand how the Mycenaeans and their immediate successors viewed the events that inspired Homer? Some time has elapsed since Homer wrote the Iliad, but do any copies remain of epics/anything else that emerged around the same time from the same sources (a variation on Homer's Iliad/Odyssey)? A big question question of mine is whether Odysseus' story and all of the Iliad's characters would be more fictitious/inventions of Homer, where the pseudo-historical events would be what Homer had heard. Are there any other texts that give us alternate accounts or extra evidence for either epic or are they mainly seen to be directly caused by/causing Homer's poetry?

As far as I'm aware, Homer didn't read Linear B and so all that he had heard of these stories would have been passed down orally, are there any other examples of classical retellings of mycenaean legends that emerged in Homer's time with the Archaic Period's return of 'culture' (or of a culture that we have records of)? In terms of the Mycenaeans' beliefs/culture, what evidence do we have for it? From what I know, Linear B was used for notary purposes but why didn't we ever get any mycenaean epics? Is there something to do with the script or the timing or something else? And back to Mycenaeans' stories, does the literature of the Archaic mainly revolve around more stories from Mycenaean times or their own times (or inventions)? What examples would there be of Mycenaean legends that survived the Greek Dark Ages? How strong was the oral tradition that carried them on and how conservative was it too? Were these stories mainly passed down through song or just tales? If there was a musical component (and this may be a bit ignorant of me to ask) but how did music/meter get passed down? (although I'm sure that's its own can of worms).

Thanks to everyone for any help, sorry for any vague wording of the questions (and for the quantity of questions), and have a good one guys.

I haven’t been in the party too long and I haven’t gone to that many meetings but I was wondering if I’m able to put forward a motion that doesn’t have to do with my specific branch (i.e. for me one part of Sydney to another). I’m not sure if I should raise it in a party meeting or if I should go to Labor NSW headquarters but any thanks would be greatly appreciated.