and why is it ancient Greek?
>>24854898This and English is all you need to fake your way through any other European language.
>>24854898Classical Chinese is comparable for literary and philosophical tradition.
>>24856331This, plus most of it is untranslated or translated poorly.
>>24854898Ebonics
>>24854898I'm a monolingual midwit, could I ever hope to learn Homeric Greek?
>>24856385You've demonstrated that you're capable of acquiring a language by the fact that you're already fluent in English, so yes.
>>24856385it's all about patience/discipline more than wit, you absolutely can if you are willing to embark in a years long process of daily studying first and reading even if just a bit
>>24854898Correct.https://archive.org/details/historyofgreekm01heatGerman is cool too.https://books.google.com/books?id=bOhEAAAAIAAJ
>>24856385Yes, learning languages is easy.Ancient Greekhttps://libgen.li/edition.php?id=146575969https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4FyHj2CA30dFvtLPcFheTRSxNF9sEJqWhttps://archive.org/details/anabasisofxenoph00xenoialahttps://biblehub.com/interlinear/matthew/1.htmhttps://libgen.li/edition.php?id=144953026Latinhttps://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/520391322/#520394523Spanishhttps://archive.org/details/firstspanishbook00wormrichhttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhdS2G2XvTB5gDsr4iyIbbsNGermanhttps://archive.org/details/deutsch-nach-der-naturmethodehttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhc0J7rC_vQMUBIVdaj---V5Frenchhttps://archive.org/details/jensen-arthur-le-francais-par-la-methode-naturehttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhdIS7NMcdUdxibD1UyzNFTPItalianhttps://archive.org/details/LitalianoSecondoIlMetodoNaturahttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhfQonvCySTrKEUV742WzshJ
>>24856331Chinese "philosophy" is garbage.
>>24858324What would you know about it, having never read any of it?
>>24858680Is not the Chinese 'civilization' enough proof?
>>24858705You mean one of the great civilizations of history?
>>24857017Thanks, anon. Was meant to learn Spainish this year but illness and personal issues has made me sideline it. Might begin with that.
>>24854898I like Latin
>>24857017>learning languages is easy.no it isn't
I study French and Old Norse and I recently picked up GermanI'm going to study Russian after GermanI love French and Old Norse the most
Sanskrit is the only language on earth that matters.
>>24854898Farsi or Arabic seems like they have near perfect translations of Greek philosophical texts with the pros of being languages people actually speak today.
>>24859192And why?
>>24859224Classical Arabic is quite different from spoken Arabic, though they still write in it.
>>24859272Buddhist and Jain texts unironically tell you how to hack your brain to get superpowers and astral travel to other dimensions. And like only 10% of the Sanskrit corpus has been translated so far. It's lightyears beyond what the Greeks were doing, debating gay ethics and shit.Also, poos did not write Sanskrit in case you were wondering.
>>24858763I'm using that book and also this. I really like both.https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=137980013
>>24859309I did learn Sanskrit alphabets and read the epics with a translated text, what I read sounded comically mellifluous in texture. >poos did not write Sanskrit No I knew that. It was Pro Indo European
>>24859309Can u share their insights tho?
>>24859685No, I've only begun to scratch the surface. A lot of it is based on a deep understanding of logic and epistemology before you can even begin to understand the practical mind-hacking of tantric Buddhism and other esoteric schools of thought.The reason why I started to go down the rabbit hole though is because their logic and epistemology is air fucking tight and when you read it you get the sense that this is how reality actually operates, rather than it being some random dude's opinion (e.g. like a Plato or a Kant). Simply from the strength of their arguments and structure, it makes me think there is something there and something worth investigating. They let the logic dictate the direction of their philosophy, rather than it be dogmatic like Western philosophy. Where Western philosophy is basically "X person's philosophical system," Indian philosophy is structured by consensus, so the philosophy is molded by a group through trial and error. So philosophy quite literally can only progress if people agree it makes sense logically. So by the end when it is fully formed, that's when the mindfucking starts. But since western philosophy has a different methodology entirely, they are still arguing over semantics and linguistics bullshit while esoteric Indian texts teach you how to reach the stars.Another key difference between Indian and Western philosophy is that Western is purely theoretical and there is almost no philosopher in that tradition who talks about actual practical applications of their philosophy. The philosopher who comes closest to this is arguably Plotinus, but even he stops at a description of the layers of reality and doesn't give you any practical instruction of how to tangibly transcend them. Indian philosophy however, past a certain point, is almost entirely practical because philosophy (in the western sense) got completed by around 500 AD in the timeline.
>>24859090Yes it is.a) You're brainwashed by school.b) It depends what you put into the word "learn". I don't mean "master". If you learn 5 words of a language today, then you're learning that language. Try for example the Italian book I posted, and the audio for it.https://archive.org/details/LitalianoSecondoIlMetodoNaturahttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhfQonvCySTrKEUV742WzshJReport back if you were unable to learn 5 words from those links.If you've never learned much of any language you might want to try starting with Esperanto or Toki Pona before moving on to a real language. Toki Pona has only 140 words in total.tokipona.orghttps://esperanto12.net/en/01/
>>24858763Later edition:https://archive.org/details/newfirstspanishb00jamerich
>>24859696Noice. What texts should I read?
>>24858735Yeah, and now modern China is entirely built on Western ideas and philosophy. China was stagnant for centuries due to Chinese "philosophy" which culminated in the century of humiliation.
Greek is great, but let me shill for Classical Persian. The language is nearly unchanged for 1000 years, and you get more untranslatable poetry than most people could ever read in a lifetime.Arabic has a similar continuity, but is much harder and has annoying diglossia.
Ancient Greek is like the Ferrari of languages, bright and fast. Latin is ugly af.
>>24854898Italian or Latin.
>>24859985Seems like it would be difficult to get your hands on any Farsi reading material, unlike the other languages mentioned itt
>>24854898French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek. Everything else is accessory.
>>24859985>you get more untranslatable poetry than most people could ever read in a lifetimeThere's poetry, but all the good stuff can't fit in a three volume set.
>>24860569https://ganjoor.net/This site probably has anything you would ever want to read, with synchronized audio when available. There are 1,462,191 verses digitized so far.
