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| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5449 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes  Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 9 of 44 26 September 2010 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you enjoy complex grammar for the sake of complexity, then Latin should be pretty fun for you. Lithuanian is not a dead language, but I love it nonetheless for its complex grammar, and I guess I'll like Latin too if I ever learn it (but I have other languages to get to first).
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| boon Diglot Groupie Ireland Joined 6160 days ago 91 posts - 177 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Mandarin, Latin | Message 10 of 44 26 September 2010 at 9:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I dabble in Latin occasionally. It has helped my language learning quite a bit. I used to study Spanish and think "What the hell is the point in all these inflections? Where do they come from?". Then I looked at a Latin grammar book and thought "Ah, this is even more complicated! That explains things". It helped my brain to accept the otherness of the language.
I've since learned that English used to be very inflected too, e.g. it had three genders. If you're interested in the history of language I'd recommend The Loom of Language, although it's out of print. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| H.Computatralis Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 6305 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Polish*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Latin | Message 11 of 44 27 September 2010 at 12:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Latin is cool but I think it's much harder than any of the Romance languages (well, at least for an English speaker). The reason for that is that modern Romance languages have mostly lost the inflectional system of Latin. However, like "boon" said Latin helps a lot in making sense of the grammar of the Romance languages and making parallels between them.
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| furrykef Senior Member United States furrykef.com/ Joined 6473 days ago 681 posts - 862 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Latin, Italian | Message 12 of 44 27 September 2010 at 7:22am | IP Logged | ||
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For me the greatest joy of Latin is the poetry of Martial. It's easy to read (compared to most other Latin poetry) and is usually hilarious. Think of a classic insult comedian, like Groucho Marx, and make him an ancient Roman poet, and there you go.
I used to have a love/hate relationship with Latin -- loved its general feel, but hated its complexity -- but by now I've gotten used to it enough that I rarely hate it anymore. It's very rough going at first, but keep at it and it gradually becomes much easier, until it's eventually almost as easy as a Romance language.
That's really only one of the reasons. I've nearly mastered Latin's inflectional system, but there's still a lot to learn before Latin comes very naturally to me. - Kef 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 44 27 September 2010 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me Latin is fun because I don't have to learn it, but do so of my own free will, and because I treat it as any other language. There is a lot of material in Latin so I won't get bored soon (which can be a problem with some of my other languages).
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| Cesare M. Senior Member Canada youtube.com/user/CheRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5171 days ago 99 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English* | Message 14 of 44 29 September 2010 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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For me I found latin a lot of fun to learn, and I learned it all fluently in one hour. I know you are probably thinking "oh that's bull..." but it's true, especially the fact that Latin is more similar to Italian than it is to the other Latin languages (which for me is very shocking).
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| Cesare M. Senior Member Canada youtube.com/user/CheRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5171 days ago 99 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English* | Message 15 of 44 29 September 2010 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
Well if you want I can help you more in Latin. Once you start referring back to another Latin language you speak, it'll be really easy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5670 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 16 of 44 29 September 2010 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||
That is a very impressive achievement. Even basic fluency, with say just 10,000 words, would mean you absorbed three words a second during that hour, plus grammar on top. You need to share some advice on your remarkable approach. 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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