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submitted 2 months ago by bossito@lemmy.world to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

Guys, it's time to learn Esperanto.

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[-] erebion@news.erebion.eu 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah and English is well established, most people already know some of it.

Still, I like languages, so Latin seems interesting to me. :D

[-] Ash@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In that case read Lingua Latina per se Illustrata by Hans Orberg. I now read quite well in latin thanks to his self teach books, but theyre really interesting - they teach using the natural method... ie there is no english or french or anything - the entire book is in latin. The first lines are :

Roma in Italia est.
Italia in Europa est.
Italia et Francia in Europa sunt.

And then you have to figure out (with the help of cryptic annotations) that est (is) is singular and sunt (are) is plural. No going back to your own language, no phrases. By the end of the first chapter you are beginning to decline nouns and adjectives. Puella pulchra est, Puellae pulchrae sunt. And you have no idea you are doing it. No boring rote learning of declensions, its like you're learning as you would as a child.

And now I can mostly understand reading romance languages I don't know well(romanian, spanish, etc) thanks to learning latin (Also, I am a fluent french speaker) and other people have copied his method into loads of languages so I collected lots of natural method books for german and italian etc.

[-] erebion@news.erebion.eu 2 points 2 months ago

Thank you really really much for this recommendation, seems like something I definitely want to read! :D

[-] Ash@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago
[-] erebion@news.erebion.eu 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks! I've already ordered it. Pretty excited about this.

[-] Ash@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Spero tibi librum placere

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