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Is it better to learn Latin or Classical Greek?

>> No.12758173

Sanskrit. All of the truth in the world is contained in the Vedas.

>> No.12758217

>>12758164
I'm a cuck and I'm really mad about this post (wahhhhhhh).

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>>12758164
I would start of with Latin because of its more familiar alphabet (although learning the Greek one isn't hard), and similarity between Romance languages. Learning Latin however will be a challenge as it requires a lot of discipline and knowledge. Good luck with any sort of philosophical texts in Latin as those are pretty hard.

>> No.12758281

>>12758246
Reading St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae is much easier for me, a native Spanish speaker, than reading Ovid's Amores or Virgil's Aeneid. I can understand Aquinas well enough to read pages from his works without having to consult a dictionary, but Roman poetry just looks like a string of familiar-looking words stringed together by an alien sentence structure.

>> No.12758334

>>12758281
Are you actually claiming that medieval Latin has mutual intelligibility with modern Spanish? Nigga, that's retarded.