Linguamne Latinam loqueris?zala-taichou said:I can speak English, Dutch (my first language), German and I can make myself understood in French. Oh, and a teensy bit of Japanese. I can read those (except Japanese) and a bit of Latin, ancient Greek and Italian (and Sindarin and Quenya, being a good nerd). I love studying language.
^This is why I want to learn Latin. Not only does it sound awesome, but it sounds relatively familiar.Hader said:Linguamne Latinam loqueris?zala-taichou said:I can speak English, Dutch (my first language), German and I can make myself understood in French. Oh, and a teensy bit of Japanese. I can read those (except Japanese) and a bit of Latin, ancient Greek and Italian (and Sindarin and Quenya, being a good nerd). I love studying language.
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I know most of those aren't romance languages, but I would try Greek/Latin first, just to help ease into any romance language you may learn later. I learned Spanish before Latin, and although I experienced no trouble with that transition, a few months of taking Latin and I could easily see the similarities and where things were changed.Naheal said:German
Mandarin
Korean
Arabic
Cantonese
Norwegian
Russian
Swedish
Spanish
Latin
Greek
Italian
I'm pretty sure that I'll run across a few more to add to the list eventually.
I hardly know enough to speak fluently off the top of my head, but enough to keep a simple conversation going for a short time. Latin is a very complex language...but I agree, it's so fun to speak out loudNaheal said:^This is why I want to learn Latin. Not only does it sound awesome, but it sounds relatively familiar.
OH, I forgot Italian... better add it to the list.
At least learning Germanic languages should be simple by comparison. I'm preferring to start with a base language of each "family" and going on to learn different languages from that family (Learning Japanese first, going to finish learning French, then going on to learn Arabic, then moving on from there, dependent upon where my interests lie at the time).Hader said:I know most of those aren't romance languages, but I would try Greek/Latin first, just to help ease into any romance language you may learn later. I learned Spanish before Latin, and although I experienced no trouble with that transition, a few months of taking Latin and I could easily see the similarities and where things were changed.Naheal said:German
Mandarin
Korean
Arabic
Cantonese
Norwegian
Russian
Swedish
Spanish
Latin
Greek
Italian
I'm pretty sure that I'll run across a few more to add to the list eventually.
I hardly know enough to speak fluently off the top of my head, but enough to keep a simple conversation going for a short time. Latin is a very complex language...but I agree, it's so fun to speak out loudNaheal said:^This is why I want to learn Latin. Not only does it sound awesome, but it sounds relatively familiar.
OH, I forgot Italian... better add it to the list.![]()
I'm just sticking with what I know right now, getting Latin/Italian out of the way. The only thing I have planned to mix it up is Arabic, then Navajo. Arabic would definitely be more useful, and Navajo is just something that's interested me since I first heard it.Naheal said:At least learning Germanic languages should be simple by comparison. I'm preferring to start with a base language of each "family" and going on to learn different languages from that family (Learning Japanese first, going to finish learning French, then going on to learn Arabic, then moving on from there, dependent upon where my interests lie at the time).
I'm a linguist. Learning and speaking languages is just what I do. Having more languages makes me far more effective at my job.Hader said:I'm just sticking with what I know right now, getting Latin/Italian out of the way. The only thing I have planned to mix it up is Arabic, then Navajo. Arabic would definitely be more useful, and Navajo is just something that's interested me since I first heard it.Naheal said:At least learning Germanic languages should be simple by comparison. I'm preferring to start with a base language of each "family" and going on to learn different languages from that family (Learning Japanese first, going to finish learning French, then going on to learn Arabic, then moving on from there, dependent upon where my interests lie at the time).
And I just do it as a hobbyNaheal said:I'm a linguist. Learning and speaking languages is just what I do. Having more languages makes me far more effective at my job.