Most Classical Japanese materials expect you to have some knowledge of Modern Japanese. What I can say so far is, it largely depends on the resources at hand and what (if anything) they expect you to know. I share a similar interest in learning older forms of many of the languages I'm interested in, and would like to hear other people's experiences/advice with this. Because of various reasons (including personal preference), I'm prioritizing the Modern language first. I can't say I'm that far with this idea, but I am poking around with Modern and Classical Japanese at the moment. How do you feel learning both added you? Do you prefer starting with the older language and going to the modern variant or the other way around? MSA and a dialect, Ancient and Modern Greek, Latin and (in my case) Spanish, etc, and I wanted other's perspectives. What are your experience/s with studying both an ancient language and its modern descendant? I find myself in a situation where I would really like to learn both the ancient and modern varieties of my languages of choice. Thevagrant88 wrote:Ok well since I'm here, I have questions. So I’ll definitely check back in when the dust settles a bit in my personal life. I just want to see how much more batshit crazy it could possibly be. Old Japanese: I know of exactly zero works of old Japanese. Apart from Gilgamesh, I know very little of Sumerian literature, which makes it a bit of a hard sell at the moment. I can see myself in my twilight years, trying to untangle the mess of cuneiform symbols, guessing what it may have sounded like. This one is my “retirement” project so to speak. Still, if I wanted to read from antiquity I’d rather do it in Greek, and if I wanted to read medieval texts I’d rather do it in Arabic. However, it is made more appealing by the fact that I already know thousands of Latin words between my English and Spanish. Something about it feels and sounds very rigid to me, angular even. But at the same time, something about the language itself doesn’t really agree with me. I also am curious to see how deeply Arabic has influenced Spanish, which I consider myself fluent in. Arabic language and culture has always interested me and as someone who appreciates handwriting, I’d love to wright in Arabic as well. As you likely know, the line between Classical Arabic and MSA is fuzzy at best, but humor me here. I may be willing to study Italian or French just so I can use the Assimil course.Ĭlassical Arabic: Ok, so I’m cheating a little. One of my definite bucket-list languages. Homer, Plato, Xenophon, the Greek dramas, some of the first novels the shear amount of material to read is staggering. I’d want to learn Koine and Modern Greek as well, but for the sake of these thread, Attic is tops for me. Greek: Primarily Attic, I’ve always been a Greek mythology nerd and this is pretty comfortably my most desired ancient language to learn. I’m in the middle of moving right now so I don’t have time to join, but this is sort of where I’m at and what interests me. Since I’d only ever be reading, in my mind, that means I just gotta understand what I’m being exposed to. Partly for the curiosity of it, partly for the lack of “pressure” so to speak.
I’ve been attracted to the idea of studying old/dead/ancient languages for a while now.
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