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SolaCatella
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28 May 2006, 8:26 pm

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i wish i could go back and learn latin again. i only had one year of it, as our school discontinued it. there are so many really old book that have passages in latin (and old french) that give me fits to deciper.... and the REALLY old books are in latin anyway. would like to be able to read it in the original and understand it, rather than relying on translations somebody else did.

If you really want to learn it again for free, the Cambridge Latin Textbook has a helpful site with readings and vocabulary[url=http://www.cambridgescp.com/page.php?p=clc^top^home]here[/url] and there's a lovely site with a lot of grammar concepts here. I'd also suggest purchasing Wheelock's Latin, which is one of the best comprehensive Latin texts out there. (Cambridge, not so much. It relys far too much on translating and tends to move at a pace that is far too slow for my tastes).


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16 Jun 2006, 9:02 pm

they say that in the 21st century you won't be unemployed if you know Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. of course those are often used for business and sales, which leaves out a lot of us... but i think they are great languages anyway.

i have an MA in French and another in Spanish and want to learn Mandarin properly but have no idea if i will ever manage it. i have dabbled in German (6 yrs), Dutch, Italian, Hebrew (very little), Catalán/Valencian and ASL (american sign language). i would like to add japanese but i am probably too old... I feel it would take several lifetimes to learn Chinese...


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17 Jun 2006, 9:07 am

I learned French for 7 years and German for 5, but had to stop them because I needed more time for other subjects. And anyway, my preferred language is music :P

Ideally I'd like to know - well, to have an understanding of enough to get the general gist of written language - Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Chinese (any) Gujarati, Hindi, Scandinavian languages, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Dutch ... yeah. Loads. Oh, and of course BSL - or at least I'd like to learn the vocabulary, which would them mean I could be pretty much fluent in SSE. (British Sign Language and Sign Supported English.)

Shorthand would be useful too! :)


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