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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5957 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 17 of 44 29 September 2010 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
I note Cesare describes himself as Canadian, and I expect the answer lies there (we are fairly extraordinary folks - I much suspect that there are brain steriods in the maple syrup). My only surprise is that it took the full hour.... Edited by Spanky on 29 September 2010 at 10:48pm 9 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7104 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 18 of 44 29 September 2010 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
As I very recently posted in this thread here, the Loom of Language can be downloaded from the Internet Archive: The Loom of Language 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Faraday Senior Member United States Joined 6119 days ago 129 posts - 256 votes Speaks: German* | Message 19 of 44 30 September 2010 at 1:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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Here's a direct link for the download for the DJVU file.
Loom of language 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| fireflies Senior Member Joined 5182 days ago 172 posts - 234 votes Speaks: English* | Message 20 of 44 30 September 2010 at 7:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Is Latin harder than German grammatically?
I was surprised how many modern books are available in it on Amazon (such as 'Regulus' which is 'The Little Prince'). A lot of people must still be learning it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 21 of 44 30 September 2010 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd say that the grammars are similarly difficult - Latin is more regular, but it has
some advanced grammar features German dropped. However, learning Latin is a lot easier if you're going for reading ability only. Learning to understand e. g. the noun declensions takes at most 1/10 of the time needed to learn to come up with the forms yourself on the fly while in a conversation. Latin is still commonly studied, especially in Europe. For example, Germans usually have the choice of either starting to learn French or Latin in 7th grade, and it's a mandatory choice. Students with less talent for languages are typically told to go for Latin; but so are future polyglots (Latin is a good foundation). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5454 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 22 of 44 30 September 2010 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
In my opinion: Yes, a lot. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 23 of 44 01 October 2010 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well the thing is that I already knew a moderate amount of Latin words because of everyday English usage, but I wouldn't say that I absorbed 10,000 words in one hour, but I still learned the language fluently in one hour. I have a Latin board with lots of vocabulary, and before I acutally studied the language, I knew just "Salve", and the grammar, so for me it was very easy. The thing is that yes you need to know a lot of words when it comes to acceptable fluency, but it doesn't have to be 10,000; that's just my opinion. The important thing is to be understood and to make the best out of the language as possible. Also for me it takes very fast brain power, and with no pressure. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 24 of 44 01 October 2010 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Ego feci videonem aut in video loqui omnes linguas ego
possum loqui. Ego unloqui Latin satis bonus in video. Latin translation: I did a video and in the video I speak all the languages I can speak, and I don't speak Latin very well in the video. Edited by Cesare M. on 02 October 2010 at 12:42am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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