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Alexei Kondratiev Celtic Storytelling
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Celtic Storytelling is one of three of Alexei Kondratiev's lectures that I recorded at Etheracon 2007. This is the same content that I posted 11 years ago, as a 6-part series, when it was hard to upload very large files to YouTube. As the original files were lost, I spliced the smaller MP4s together to create the full-length video, so please forgive the small blips between the segments. • About Alexei... • Alexei Kondratiev was my teacher, mentor and friend. I took his classes in Celtic Mythology and Celtic Christianity at the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan, all of them twice, and his course on Arthurian Legends at the NYC Open Center. He tutored me in Welsh language. My failure to learn to speak it says nothing about his teaching ability, which was vast, but says a little about the stupidity of trying to learn a difficult language while mothering a toddler. I can say, without doubt, that had I never met Alexei, I would be an entirely different person. And not a better one! • From Wikipedia • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_... • Alexei Kondratiev (February 15, 1949–May 28, 2010) was an American author, linguist, and teacher of Celtic languages, folklore and culture. He taught the Irish language and Celtic history at the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan, New York from 1985 until his death on May 28, 2010. Nine editions of his book, The Apple Branch, were published in English and Spanish from 1998 to 2004. At various times, he taught all six of the living Celtic languages. • A long-time member of the Mythopoeic Society, Kondratiev was the Scholar Guest of Honor at the organization's Mythcon 33 convention in 2002, papers coordinator for Mythcon 39 in 2008, and maintained a book review column in its publication, Mythlore. In 2010, the society named a new award after Kondratiev, the Alexei Kondratiev Memorial Student Paper Award, to be presented for the first time at its Mythcon 41 convention in Dallas, July 9–12, 2010. • He contributed significant portions of the text used on the website of the Celtic League's American Branch and book reviews for the organization's magazine, Keltoi. • On the File 770 science fiction fandom blog, Ken Gale reported that Kondratiev spoke over 60 languages and was fluent in 13 to 20 of them. In the Northeast Tolkien Society's tribute to Kondratiev, co-chairs Anthony S. Burdge and Jessica J. Burke reminisced about how he offered advice on the pronunciation of key Algonquian terms for a paper at Mythcon 37 in 2006, and his passion for the Polynesian culture and language at the Hawaii Mythcon. • Kondratiev encouraged students to think of language as a tool to connect with and understand the culture of its people. The collection of languages he acquired included the Native American languages of Cherokee, Lenape, Lakota, and Navajo. • (More at the Wikipedia link above.)
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