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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6659 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 25 of 30 23 August 2012 at 12:33am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Don't be so sure! Some latinist can be very, very conscious about pronunciation! 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| sipes23 Diglot Senior Member United States pluteopleno.com/wprs Joined 4870 days ago 134 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Spanish, Ancient Greek, Persian | Message 27 of 30 23 August 2012 at 6:41am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Indeed. I'd say that this is a great reader for non-scholars. Nice selections and a reasonable degree of glossing.
I have nooooo idea what you are talking about. (I'm joking.) Edited by sipes23 on 23 August 2012 at 6:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Odysseus Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4991 days ago 19 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Mandarin | Message 28 of 30 27 August 2012 at 2:47am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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The two languages I have spent the most time on are Korean and Classical Chinese (which is not included in the list of languages we can mark ourselves as learning here for some reason; why is Ancient Greek on the list but not Clasical Chinese?). It's strange, I can read through pages of Korean in the same amount of time it takes me to piece together a single paragraph of Classical Chinese, but the latter is both somehow more enjoyable (despite the frustrations that lack of grammatical clarity can give rise to), and certainly feels like more of an accomplishment. I'm still not far enough along in Latin to be reading original texts yet, but I'm hoping for a similar experience (in terms of quality and enjoyment, not in terms of reading speed!).
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 29 of 30 27 August 2012 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Classical Chinese not on the list is strange. There is a thread, I suppose in the
technical room, where you can ask for adding languages on the list. Or you can create a new topic somewhere where administrator can find it 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4639 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 30 of 30 27 August 2012 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Another "dead" language which is not on the list is Church Slavonic. I am not learning it at the moment, but have a dream of doing so once I have reached a decent level in Russian.
I have studied both Latin and Classical Greek, and I loved both, not least because reading Ovid, Virgil or Horats in translation can never beat working through their texts in original version. Unfortunately I do not have much time nowadays to dwell into Latin texts, but try to read a little bit from time to time in order to keep it up. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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