Uncial edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24697657>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
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studio captus es latine loquendi aliis cum Romanitatis cultoribus? en tibi forum https://porticuspublica.org ne metueris tiro cum sis conatus facere verbis commutandis, haud omnes adeo periti sumus ut semper lepide et concinne more maiorum scribamus
>>24732156dead forumgo ahead, reply here, you wont post there
>>24732273I'm the second most active poster there, thanks for the bump and publicity, spiteful mutant
If I am learning Hebrew to try and read ancient texts and archeological treasures am I welcome here?
>>24732382Yes!
>>24732366>replied here>didnt post therekekdance, monkey, dance
>>24732406thanks for the bump!https://porticuspublica.org
>>24732382See the OP:>All Classical languages are welcome.
>>24732408>abhinc 1 diem
>>24732382Yes and I’m sure there’s stuff in the mega but otherwise even classical Mayan seems to have more posters than Hebrew. Probably because of it being particularly difficult and only useful to non-jews insofar as they want to get into Old Testament scholarship and want to be able to read the Masoeretic Text.
>>24732546What all the other historical Hebrew literature?
I'm considering that, since I am learning Latin mainly through holy scripture, it may be a worthwhile exercise if/when I ever get around to rereading these texts to build greek proficiency to use picrel to make a term bank for LUTE that is all Greek-Latin. I also intend to make heavy use of Latin/Greek facing translations basically as a way to learn Greek while further practicing my Latin.My question is whether anyone here who learned ancient greek after Latin made use of Latin-Greek vocabulary lists and if they found that helpful as opposed to using English as the L1 for both Latin and Greek.
Other Hebrew learner checking in.>>24732546> Probably because of it being particularly difficultThat's just not true. If not for the foreign vocabulary it would be easier than even Latin, and it's far easier than Arabic.>>24731607Specifically about Ge'ez? Because otherwise, I'm looking for An Introduction to Classical Hebrew by Vance, if you happen to have that.
>>24732666>>That's just not true>Okay, let's see what his reasoning is>>If not for the foreign vocabularykek
>>24732674Honestly Hebrew grammar doesn't seem that bad from my exposure to it.
>>24732686I believe you, but there’s an odd tendency among people who study Latin to treat it like it’s da hardest ever.Japanese grammar and lexical similarities to English are basically nonexistent. It’s far more alien in every way, and yet I’ve multiple times had people insist to me that Latin is harder.
>>24732692I think part of the difference is that you can watch kids' cartoons in Japanese and not in Latin. (You can also watch kids' cartoons in modern Hebrew, but it is a bit different from Biblical; I'm told it's on par with the difference between our English and Shakespeare's.)
>>24732674My protasis only said it would be easier than Latin, but as it is, it's still easier than most other languages.Every classical language except for Latin and Norse/OE will have a vocabulary just as foreign to English speakers as Hebrew. (The few Greek words you get for free barely make a dent.)
>>24732697There is sufficient Latin content to do this too, but it's not a very relevant comparison because it makes access to learning resources equivalent to the actual difficulty of the language itself.If anything, for a well educated adult, something like LLPSI is much better for a beginner IMHO than Peppa Pig.
>>24732747>There is sufficient Latin content to do this tooNo, there isn't. Watching cartoons is visual and borderline passive. Nothing like that exists for Latin.
>>24732900utinam numquam
I always wanted to read the dead sea scrolls in hebrew, and yes, some are in Aramaic, but that seems like a less all around useful language, of course, depending on what you are interested in like Assyrian archeology or Chaldean culture etc.
>>24732900Minecraftium
anyone know where I can find raw texts or epubs of OE texts? Wessex Gospels would be ideal.
>>24732652no but I do find that when I'm doing composition the greek-latin lexicon often comes to mind and I often prefer using it; as a beginner in one of them though maybe it could be more challenging, though rewarding
>>24733586My main thought was just that relying on the corpus of Latin that I have read that itself is Greek translations (like the New Testament or Apostolic Fathers)>>24732900Dude just read ffs. It’s in like the top 3 easiest languages to learn. This is exactly what I am talking about. Latin is not uniquely difficult. It is the easiest of the classical languages and substantially easier than any difficult moderate language, especially because the challenge is mostly limited in scope to reading. The difficulty of Latin is a myth that comes from classics departments and people ashamed that they spent 10 years getting a bachelor’s, master’s and PHD in a language they can’t read fluently.LLPSI has put out literally thousands of pages of graded readers. The content does exist. ROMA IN ITALIA EST ITALIA IN EUROPA EST ITS NOT THAT HARD
>>24733703its a category iv language so its fairly hard to learn, i is easiest and v is hardestFor english speakers:>i. Afrikaans Danish Dutch French Italian Norwegian Portuguese Romanian Spanish Swedish>ii. german>iii. indonesian, malaysian, swahili>iv. latin, slavic languages, finnish, greek, hebrew, hindi, mongolian, nepali, that, turkish, vietnamese, zulu, xhosa>v. Arabic, Chinese languages, Japanese, Korean
>>24733703>especially because the challenge is mostly limited in scope to reading.Sure but you could learn to just read chinese and it would still probably be as easy as learning to speak french
