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>tfw you can read Chaucer, Shakespeare and Joyce in your own native language

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>tfw brought up bilingual

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>tfw reading russian lit in english

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>tfw too lazy to learn any language

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>>7079463
>tfw dual speaker of English and Deutsch
>tfw having access to the two greatest realms of literature in the world

>> No.7079551

>>7079529
>English
>German
>"greatest realms of literature"

Honhonhonhon!

>> No.7079572

I'm American so sadly I cant'

>> No.7079594

>>7079529
French is just above German

Literature power rankings::
1. English
2. French
3. German and Russian
5. Ancient Greek and Latin
7. Spanish
8. Italian and Chinese
10. Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian and Japanese

>> No.7079602

>>7079594
>Italian below Spanish and Russian

>> No.7079605

>>7079594
1. English
2. Sanskrit
3. Chinese
4. Greek
5. Latin
6. Tamil
7. German
8. French
9. Arabic
10. Russian

11-15. Are Japanese, Italian, Spanish, Tibetan and Persian, in any order you like.

>> No.7079615

>>7079605
Classicists always overrating ancient stuff

>> No.7079616

>>7079605
I love Sanskrit, but there is relatively little of worth in Sanskrit.

1. English
2. Greek
3. Latin
4. French
5. German
6. Russian
7. Arabic
8. Italian
9. Persian
10. Chinese

>> No.7079617

>>7079615
> he underestimates the value of the classics

>> No.7079618

>>7079594
>Spanish above Italian

Your opinion is literally trash.

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>>7079618
This.

>> No.7079622

>>7079618
Has more interesting stuff in 20th century

>> No.7079625

>>7079605
>2. Sanskrit
>6. Tamil

I bet you can't even name 5 texts in these languages that aren't religious writings.

>> No.7079630

>>7079605
How's about Turkish and Korean

>> No.7079635

>>7079622
With writers like Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco and so on I think they're pretty evenly matched tbh.

>> No.7079654

>>7079625
Why do they have to be non-religious writings? Why can't those languages be valuable largely because of their religious tradition?

>>7079630
A close 16. and 17.?

>> No.7079680

>tfw non-native English speakers gain far more utility by learning English than I, a native English speaker get from learning one of several prominent foreign languages, but I'm still regarded as a complacent monolingual dolt by continentals

>> No.7079682

>>7079680
>caring what continentals think

They're all going to be speaking Syrian and Turkish in a couple of generations anyway

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>>7079682
>Syrian