Posting on /his/ >Not studying Latin and ancient Greek

>>2894628
>ancient Greek
Which one?

>>2894685
Koine, for the New Testament

It would take years to learn any of them properly. As with any language.

I want to learn Latin eventually tho.

I couldn't study ancient Greek in HS because i wanted to do Geography. I regret it but at least I did Latin.

>>2894628
If you want to study Classical languages, don't just study the Western ones, learn Sanskrit, Arabic, and Classical Chinese too. The best thing about those five is that they give the key to a decent starting vocabulary in most languages of the world.

>posting on /his/
>being monolingual

>>2894628
How do I og about Learning Latin in the most efficient way?

>>2894951
i speak 3 modern languages but i just can't get myself to study classical ones.

I suggested a weekly Latin learning/study thread for folks who were keen on it here. Can't think of a good name though.

>>2894628
Studied them in high school.
I can still stumble my way through a latin text, greek pretty much left my brain after graduation.

>tfw have to learn Latin in 3 months for my MLitt degree

end me

>>2895298
How many months have you known about this anon? Because your post reeks of procrastination.

>>2895195
/fur/ - fuck off reddit

>>2895309
My paleography course doesn't start until September, but then I have to be able to analyze the texts by December time. I should probably start on my own to save some hassle, but it's specifically British medieval Latin which I'm looking at, and I'm not sure if there's any specific rules or guidelines I should be looking at before I jump into it on my own.

I've been able to learn a certain amount of Classical Chinese partly because I've been able to find material that I find interesting, like the Confucian philosophers, some of the classics, etc. My problem with Latin is, in large, part, finding similarly engaging material. Can you recommend anything, /his/? What sort of stuff in Latin is there to pique the interest of the sort of person who finds Mencius, Sun Tzu, and the Shang Shu interesting?

>>2895330
Just be glad it's not one of the philosophical works from cicero. Srsly medieval latin is pretty basic

>>2895330
It's not too bad. You get to use a dictionary both latin-english and the one in the pic.
The script you will have to do will probably be pretty conventional and you'll spend a long time getting used to it.
Just make sure to know your declinations and verbs (especially gerund(ive), participa constructions and the milion ways of translating subjunctive).

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>>2895489
Oops

>>2894951
I already know english, why would I want to waste time on learning more

>>2895311
Learning = Reddit now?

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I like latin but learning it is useless, what would it take for a revival of the language?

>>2894926
Arabic is not a classical language per se, I think. Not counting 'Hebrew', Aramaic and Tamil are two living classical languages that get less attention than they deserve because not only are they not Western but they're not official languages of a nation state. I think they're the only ones of their kind in M.E. and India respectively. I study them and know one.

>>2894628
>Not studying classical Chinese
I raff at u

>>2894628
Self studying ancient greek and latin is really fucking shit.
And I know latin.

>>2895545
Probably, basically the same thing that it took to revive Hebrew. So, a bunch of people identifying themselves as Romans starting a country.

>>2894628
>wasting your time studying dead languages when anything of interest exists in multiple excellent translations and bablefish can translate anything else you might want to read

>>2894926
What about Avestian or Ancient Persian than? Arabic vocabulary consists of many borrowings from them too.

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>not studying hebrew

silly goyim

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>tfw my parents didn't teach me Aramaic

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>>2894628
>posts on /his/
>doesn't understand neanderthal grunting

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>posts on /his/
>can't speak old norse

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>>2896801

>>2895638
Self study (in a broad sense) is the only way.

>>2895745
I speak it. I'd teach it to you, but you post frog cartoons. That can't be allowed.

>>2896809
>self study
>studying a language (in other words a system of communication with others)

pick one

>>2896822
>what is a lexicon?

>studying latin to _speak_ it
It's like you WANT to be autistic

>>2894628
I started Latin, then I kinda slowed down cause school and work and shit. Starting back up kinda slowly though.

I'd really, really, really, really appreciated /latin/ threads here to discuss and interactively learn.

>>2894628
latin is a fucking shit language
the ancient romans believed that the greatest literary achievents were when someone could make the longest run on sentence possible and since word order is irrelevant in latin you end up having to sift through an entire fucking paragraph to figure out what the subject of the sentence is

Jokes on you I barely know english

Returnus ut Redditium,

>>2895641

Caesars Legion when

I tried to learn latin but it is too hard got D on exam. Is greek easier?

>>2897763
It's much harder

>>2894628
I study and appreciate history, not use it to LARP as FILOSOFERZ AMD SHIT

>>2894628
>dead languages

>>2894956
Lingua Latina per se illustrata

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>>2894628

Hai fatto il classico? (io si)

>>2897202
Huh, classical language generals could be a good idea.

>>2897763
Nope. It'll tear you a new one compared to Latin.

>>2894628
I understand why you would want to study Latin but why ancient greek? Why not just study modern greek?

>>2894707
And Old Testament

>>2898070
And Hellenistic, Ptolemaic Egyptian and Roman sources.

>>2894951
At least i know english y español no me pidan mucho mas

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Fucking kek. 4chinners just enjoy being assblasted.

>>2895280
I had a classmate who studied latin and italian in highschool our school barely could teach english by that i mean " here are the pronouns now fuck off "

ΠΡΟΣΤΑΓΜΑ?

>>2894926
>no Classic Maya or Classical Nahuatl

>>2895587
Qur'anic Arabic is pretty classical, it uses a lot of structures that have long fallen out of use in dialect and even Modern Standard and there's a pretty rich history of pre-Islamic poetry in Arabic. But I guess it can't be traced as far back as Aramaic, say. Which one do you know (just out of curiosity)? I'm studying Arabic at the moment but I've heard from some Aramic-speakers that there are some similarities