>wondering whether this is written by some gay redditor and i should doubt everything it says >infographic calls me a homosexual >tfw i feel right at home and now trust everything it says
Is this a good instinct or a bad instinct to have
The best tool I have found is "[Language] by Michel Thomas".
It focuses on verb usage and sentence structure and has almost no grammar/vocabulary in it.
Once you understand how to use the verbs, it is just a matter of collecting vocab with time.
It is audio only. You can probably find it on your favorite torrent site.
Is learning Latin useful for learning a bunch of languages? It seems a lot of Spanish, Italian, French and even English is based off of it. Latin seems to be the foundation for most Western languages.
I read several romance languages and I very rarely use my Latin knowledge, but I'll tell you what learning Latin as my first second language did for me: made me understand how languages work and how to learn them
Russian is incredibly distant from Latin but the first thing I did in the first five minutes of learning Russian (from the Penguin Russian Course) was go to the back and start memorizing basic declensions and conjugations so I could breeze through the first 10+ chapters, because I'm not a midwit anymore thanks to Latin and thus don't need each chapter to explain the instrumental case to me like I'm a moronic chimp, and I know how to look for patterns in the weird as frick Russian noun paradigms and start building my recognition because I did the same shit in Latin and Greek
They basically dropped the collective IQ of the West by 25 points by making Latin/Greek education no longer mandatory, it activates your fricking brain to such an extent that never having it so activated makes you an effective moron. I think about language completely differently because I learned Latin, I have gotten laid because I learned Latin because I know how to manipulate syntax to avoid common midwit errors and thus attract art hoes by making them think I'm a wordsmith
It's helpful in that you can trace words, but meanings can completely shift and the words are typically related between the romance language anyways. It only really helps in a etymological way, and with no one speaking it freely, you might as well learn living languages instead.
Read books on memory technique which will help with vocab, but unless you already have a foot in the door for the language like romantic languages, it would help more to get a friend/tutor. Sometimes I would go on Omegle under the country and try to talk to strangers in the target language since it's low stakes but the convos are usually too repetitive. However it will help you get comfortable speaking. Also putting sticky notes around the house to contextualize many of the words.
Assimil, as always.
>wondering whether this is written by some gay redditor and i should doubt everything it says
>infographic calls me a homosexual
>tfw i feel right at home and now trust everything it says
Is this a good instinct or a bad instinct to have
>Languages don't change that fast
What about slang?
You shouldn't worry about slang as a beginner
IQfy has a wiki
It sucks.
Lingua Latina per se illustrata.
Wheellock's Latin course***
Both are good
Any books. Idiot.
The best tool I have found is "[Language] by Michel Thomas".
It focuses on verb usage and sentence structure and has almost no grammar/vocabulary in it.
Once you understand how to use the verbs, it is just a matter of collecting vocab with time.
It is audio only. You can probably find it on your favorite torrent site.
I used this for Spanish several years ago. Michel Thomas is based.
Is learning Latin useful for learning a bunch of languages? It seems a lot of Spanish, Italian, French and even English is based off of it. Latin seems to be the foundation for most Western languages.
I read several romance languages and I very rarely use my Latin knowledge, but I'll tell you what learning Latin as my first second language did for me: made me understand how languages work and how to learn them
Russian is incredibly distant from Latin but the first thing I did in the first five minutes of learning Russian (from the Penguin Russian Course) was go to the back and start memorizing basic declensions and conjugations so I could breeze through the first 10+ chapters, because I'm not a midwit anymore thanks to Latin and thus don't need each chapter to explain the instrumental case to me like I'm a moronic chimp, and I know how to look for patterns in the weird as frick Russian noun paradigms and start building my recognition because I did the same shit in Latin and Greek
They basically dropped the collective IQ of the West by 25 points by making Latin/Greek education no longer mandatory, it activates your fricking brain to such an extent that never having it so activated makes you an effective moron. I think about language completely differently because I learned Latin, I have gotten laid because I learned Latin because I know how to manipulate syntax to avoid common midwit errors and thus attract art hoes by making them think I'm a wordsmith
It's helpful in that you can trace words, but meanings can completely shift and the words are typically related between the romance language anyways. It only really helps in a etymological way, and with no one speaking it freely, you might as well learn living languages instead.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22160/22160-h/22160-h.htm
Read books on memory technique which will help with vocab, but unless you already have a foot in the door for the language like romantic languages, it would help more to get a friend/tutor. Sometimes I would go on Omegle under the country and try to talk to strangers in the target language since it's low stakes but the convos are usually too repetitive. However it will help you get comfortable speaking. Also putting sticky notes around the house to contextualize many of the words.
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