Classical Languages

[Anonymous No.14654754]

I can already speak Latin and Greek, should I pursue Hebrew, Classical Chinese or Sanskrit next?
Also, classical Languages thread I guess

[Anonymous No.14654810]

>>14654754
Sanskrit, Chinese or Arabic.
then you're pretty much done 90% done.

[Anonymous No.14654818]

>I can already speak Latin and Greek

No you cannot

[Anonymous No.14654842]

>>14654754
you should pursue having sex

[Anonymous No.14654847]

Learn Ge'ez, pleb.

[Anonymous No.14654920]

>>14654818
You got me, I can only read them and oftrti need a dictionary

[Anonymous No.14654985]

>>14654847
Due to my household situation I grew up with a semtic tongue and even I, that was already familiar with a semitic tongue and teached himself another, can't be bothered to learn a language as bereft of good literature as ge'ez. If you're not particulary interested in reading psalms from the bible or lithurgic texts in general, I would not recommend you learn ge'ez. Heck even if you are into these type of texts, I would still not recommend you learn ge'ez and instead learn biblical hebrew.

[Anonymous No.14655050]

>>14654985
what's wrong with ge'ez? I thought there were a lot of variant christian texts written in it. and surely there must be some sort of historical texts or philosophy.

I'm sure they aren't online, but the Vatican library alone has over a thousand illustrated manuscripts. is there nothing of interest there?

[Anonymous No.14655286]

>>14654754
Sanskrit and Akkadian are essential for anyone interested in ancient literature.

[Anonymous No.14655312]

>>14654754
Sanskrit, don't learn Hebrew or your soul will begin to rot.

[Anonymous No.14655334]

>>14655286
- also Classical Chinese.

[Anonymous No.14655352]

>>14654754
>should I pursue Hebrew, Classical Chinese or Sanskrit next?
All of them. Become the next Guenon.

[Anonymous No.14655355]

>>14655312
>your soul will begin to rot
That which does not exist cannot rot. Oh, silly goyim...

[Anonymous No.14655369]

>>14654754
Chinese/Hebrew -> Sanskrit
Branch out to a non Aryan lang first.

[Anonymous No.14655384]

I would recommend "A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese by Rouzer". It is very high quality.
Using this will let you understand Classical Chinese. But remember this isn't like other langauges, there are no sounds in it and the characters can sometimes have 10 different uses and uses that have nothing to do with each other. So this language can only be learned by reading and not by only grammar, which classical chinses almost doesn't have.

[Anonymous No.14655406]

>>14655384
Should I give it a go if I already know Japanese and about 3k+ kanji? Can you just not bother with pronunciation and still be able to read the texts in your head with Japanese readings of the kanji?

[Anonymous No.14655428]

>>14655406
> Can you just not bother with pronunciation and still be able to read the texts in your head with Japanese readings of the kanji?
Yes, though the grammar will be weird.

(Don't listen to the retard poster above your post - *of course* Classical Chinese has grammar, and in fact it will be your biggest stumbling block.)

[Anonymous No.14655431]

>>14655286
But is OB enough or should one strive to learn all the different variations of it?

[Anonymous No.14655460]

Its a shame that you can't have a learning group for ancient languages like you would for most modern. /lit/ seems to be full of enthusiasts now but the task practically has autism as a necessary requirement.

[Anonymous No.14655500]

What is your approach to learning a new language, anon? I feel like I'm already quite comfortable with English, but I feel like I learned it from osmosis, so I don't have a methodology to learn other languages.

[Anonymous No.14655528]

>>14655500
This is what happened to me, I'm lost. English is everywhere, even if you don't want, you'll end up knowing it

[Anonymous No.14655529]

>>14655500
It depends on the language but generally you'd want a way to familiarize yourself with the grammar and get all the essential vocab. A good textbook is unironically the best way to do this, despite them being so ineffectively used in public education. After you've learned the basics, pick up an interesting book and grind through it with a dictionary. By the time you are done, you'll feel confident enough to continue learning more passively, like you did with English. If its a living language, get some listening practice from videos or movies as well.

[Anonymous No.14655553]

>>14655500
Not OP, but here's a few tips that most people seem to accept as being useful.
Study grammar, make flashcards, read with the of a dictionary
It's pretty much what most people do
If you're studying a living language, you also gotta study its phonetic system and do listening comprehension practice every day using a variety of audio samples, and then begin doing "shadowing" practice by attempting to replicate native speakers as closely as possible.
If you gotta learn a new script, it's usually better to get passive recognition abilities for them through flashcards and mnemonics than to try to copy them all down by hand. I learned this the hard way after spending nearly 2 months learning katakana with a pencil and paper, and then learning ~2k kanji in 4 months with flashcards.

[Anonymous No.14655675]

>>14655553
How can anyone take 4 months for katakana alone? I learn both kanas in 1,5 days, using pen and paper, and wasn't even trying too hard.

[Anonymous No.14655682]

>>14655675
*learnt

[Anonymous No.14655792]

>>14655675
I remember what I tried doing to learn katakana was to copy the Wikipedia chart for them every day down on my notebook, but I ended up memorizing slots on a chart rather than the characters themselves.
After that, I tried practicing writing specific characters down, which sorta worked but not really, and my last resort was to write a bunch of European people and cities' names in katakana till I just sorta started recognizing names instead of characters, which then led to the most basic, rudimentary version of reading ability.
After I discovered Anki, I never went back to writing stuff by hand.

[Anonymous No.14655799]

>>14655406
There is no pronoucairion.

[Anonymous No.14655808]

>>14655792
What a journey

[Anonymous No.14655823]

>>14655808
And I still can't use a katana to cut bamboo

[Anonymous No.14655888]

>>14654754
>Hebrew
>Jewspeak
Yikes.

[Anonymous No.14656249]

>>14654754
Ηοw did yοu learn Greek(context, method, tips)

[Anonymous No.14656431]

>>14654985
Why do you keep posting about 'growing up with a semitic tongue' instead of just saying that you're a jew?

[Anonymous No.14656568]

>>14656431
Probably because of posters like >>14655888 lurking