(July 24, 2022 at 2:34 am)Deesse23 Wrote:(July 23, 2022 at 2:28 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Maybe you were not taught Latin the right way. How exactly did you study it?At school, major classes, by very, very good teachers, and i was pretty darn good at it.
You seem to think a language is hard just because you suck at it. Have you considered that sometimes people just suck at something?
You are a programmer afaik. To do programming, you need structured thinking. Latin is a very structured language. I always liked to compare Latin to math. Its (at least to me and the people i studied with) not like other languages (also maybe because its a *dead* language and can only be trained in class, not in life).
You also mentioned that you were writing in Latin or making videos. Have you ever read and translated original documents? I did Cicero, Sallust, Caesar and Catull.
Caesar was straight forward. Cicero, wooo hooo, philosophy and rhetoric combined, in a foreign language. A whole difference to Caesar. Then there was (crazy) Catullus. F.ing weirdo latin poet. A wholly different ballpark to anything else.
Its like comparing reading the news in the times, then Shakespeare and then ..... idontknow some fucking crazy poet on dope.
If you say Latin is a very structured language, perhaps you mean that you were taught it using the grammar-translation (transverbalisation) method. That is a very bad method to learn a language. English is just as structured, but it is usually not taught using the transverbalisation method.
I am not able to understand Cicero without help, for about the same reason I am not able to understand Shakespeare without help.
