/lit/ - Literature

>>20440727
Fluency comes from actively having to make use of a language constantly, not just from having a bunch of white noise come before you for 10k hours all day long ev'ryday like some East African scammer claimed 18 years ago. People back in the Middle Ages and Early Modern era had hundreds of books available to them in Latin, went to schools where literally everything had to be taught in Latin, made their thesis defense in Latin, had to listen to mass at their local church in Latin, and had to defend themselves in court in Latin. They had perfectly good reasons to learn those languages and to spend much of their lives speaking and writing in Latin (maybe not so much Greek, unless they were in the Byzantine Empire or in one of those Greek ethnic communities in Egypt or Southern Italy).
Yes, you can learn any language, either living or dead, but you're most likely not gonna become a fluent speaker of it if you don't have a strong, active community of people whom you can speak it with unless you create a monolingual tulpa who speaks just like one of one of those classical writers, but that might come at a strong risk even then. No need to look up cringe compilations of people who spent more than 10k hours listening to audio in [insert any language] and could only speak by literally translating a few phrases from their native language over to the language that they learned.