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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5533 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 65 of 75 18 February 2014 at 4:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
OK, I think we've covered the highlights of studying dead languages before and after the related living languages. If you wish to discuss this subject further, please create a new thread. Thank you!
I haven't decided on the official start date, but I'll do so fairly soon. It depends on when I have a spare day or two to get an optional challenge tracker up. There will probably be a "Registration & updates" thread, like we had for the Super Challenge, and of course people are encouraged to do anything else which amuses them.
Yup, I'm still at this stage in Egyptian. And Egyptian dictionaries are not the easiest I've found. But that's all the more reason to get in a little reading. :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Shandra Triglot Newbie Italy Joined 5205 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, English | Message 66 of 75 20 February 2014 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi!
I've just started "Lingua latina per se illustrata" by Orberg. My main goal is to be able to enjoy reading a text in Latin. I wonder if this challenge can help me stay focused and finish my textbook, so I can try more difficult texts! Thanks emk for the idea of this Challenge. 1 person has 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 67 of 75 21 February 2014 at 1:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have just put a link to this thread in my umbrella thread. I'll update that thread with the relevant informations if the structure here becomes the same as with the TAC teams, i.e. a teamleader (emk?) plus a number of members, each with their own log thread - and maybe a couple of benevolent ghosts standing in the periphery.
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| Emily96 Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4429 days ago 270 posts - 342 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin | Message 68 of 75 21 February 2014 at 7:38am | IP Logged | |||||
Saaame!! This challenge is perfect for me. It will keep me going with Latin but not at all threaten any other language. Thanks for the idea emk! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| lorinth Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4275 days ago 443 posts - 581 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Finnish | Message 69 of 75 21 February 2014 at 12:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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@Shandra and Emily96: You're about to embark on a truly wonderful journey. I've read Familia Romana (and part of the followup Roma Aeterna) and it taught me an important thing that Latin classes had failed to teach me: the pleasure of "just" enjoying stories in Latin, i.e. without being interrupted by analyses of cases and with the feeling that the Latin word order is the most natural and beautiful thing on earth. With a bit of dedication, but no excessive efforts, you will learn a ton of things about Latin and, if you're like me, you will often laugh, as Oerberg has humour and lots of interesting stories to tell. Once you've reached 2/3 of Familia Romana, make sure you also read other books in the same series, like Colloquia personarum, or Luigi Miraglia's wonderful Fabulae Syrae.
I'll be lurking in this thread, as I'd love to try such a challenge with ancient Chinese in a not too distant future. Edited by lorinth on 21 February 2014 at 12:16pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 70 of 75 30 April 2014 at 10:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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When will the challenge start? I'm looking forward to finally reading Virgil's Aeneid in the original.
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| gregf Triglot Newbie Luxembourg Joined 3953 days ago 12 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Italian, Ancient Greek | Message 71 of 75 30 April 2014 at 11:02am | IP Logged | |||||
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Me too, let's blow it up!
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| emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5533 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 72 of 75 30 April 2014 at 12:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have not forgotten this! I got sidetracked by work and then by the forum outage, but I'll be getting back to it soon.
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