Same here. By around 3rd grade I had taught myself how to phonetically read/write hieroglyphs. So I would write all sorts of English stuff in hieroglyphs, but I still couldn’t actually understand ancient Egyptian.
somehow my brain did a flip and i did the same but with nordic runes (elder futhark to be exact). now i’m catching up and trying to learn some ancient egyptian in my free time
Same here. By around 3rd grade I had taught myself how to phonetically read/write hieroglyphs. So I would write all sorts of English stuff in hieroglyphs, but I still couldn’t actually understand ancient Egyptian.
somehow my brain did a flip and i did the same but with nordic runes (elder futhark to be exact). now i’m catching up and trying to learn some ancient egyptian in my free time