/lit/ - Literature

>>18769055
sua sponte do what i wante

how

I'd rather read translation than pretend to understand the nuances of a dead language.

>>18769055
Learn Old Norse and Provençal

>>18769055
rather learn something useful.

>learn latin well
>learn french poorly
>suddenly can read italian, spanish, portuguese, and romanian with 2 days of effort

Thanks Latin

>Learn Latin and Greek

"no"

>>18769685
>Provençal
Is learning this really that difficult for a speaker of modern Spanish, French and Italian?

>>18769055
I am too small brained and lacking in discipline, I do study them casually though especially Latin. Very comfy reading dual language roman texts

>>18769055
how about i just read porn and research Aztec civilisations instead

>>18769055
I am learning Latin pepe fren

I am :)

I am not a big fan of greek though.

>>18770028
If you know French at a literate level it's already decipherable. If you also know standard Italian it's transparent.

>>18770146
>research Aztec civilisations instead
where do I start?

>>18770350
your guess is good as mine, so far i've been surface level while doing other stuff, some of joe rogans guests have put my ear to it over the years, been wanting to delve more into the compiled research published. and Violet Myers and Ella Knox are more based than most of the pawgs boys here like to simp for, just throwing that out there

>>18769055
Greek is all you need and has all the literature that matters. Learn that then something exotic like Sanskrit or Classical Chinese for maximum exposure to interesting material.

>>18770439
Well then. I've got some Miguel León-Portilla and liked it, he has some books in english. Check out Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion too.

>>18770444
This is the impression I've gotten. Greek has tons of important texts, and even some untranslated works. Is there a point in learning Latin? I can't think of many important works written in Latin, and all the ancient texts are translated. What's Latin got? Is there some corpus of texts from the middle ages full of wisdom that's somehow never been untranslated?

>>18770798
>Is there a point in learning Latin?
If you really like the middle ages and/or the Catholic church, or really want to read certain Latin renaissance era texts those would be legit reasons. I'd put my own personal preference for learning ancient languages at
>Greek
>Chinese
>Sanskrit
>Latin
based on the philosophy, history, and literature available. Wish I had time to learn them all.

>>18769055
I just finished ordering Athenaze, and I feel like seeing this thread is destiny telling me I'm gonna make it.

>>18770798
Latin has quite a bit, Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Martial, Seneca, Caesar, Augustine, Boethius etc. A ton of medieval and renaissance stuff too

>>18770963
>A ton of medieval and renaissance stuff too
Anything actually good?

>>18770989
A lot of early political and legal theory, catholic theology. That period is very underrated, I haven't studied it at all properly myself

>>18769055
I'm trying nigga

>>18769960
you don't have 27573 sóyjaks tho

>>18771040
Want to share some titles or links to texts?

>>18769055
Learn to tongue my anus nigger.

>>18769679
u sound like a coping faggot

>>18769055
based. I recommend everyone thats learning latin to use lingua latina per se illustrata

>>18769703
you sound like a normie desu

>>18770038
Any favorites for someone newer to Latin?

>>18769887
how do you learn latin well but french poorly?