ITT: What language we are currently learning, why, experience, questions and all that gay shit
Learning Languages Thread
Samuel Foster
Isaiah Turner
Learning Hieroglyphics right now before I become a student of Egyptology pls dont bully me STEM anons
The books by Bill Manley are very good for basic and intermediate learning, and it's been remarkably more easy than i've anticipated.
>questions
No questions, but I hope to progress to more eastern cultures, I have many theories in regards to ancient and classical history, and if I do become an Archaeologist, I'd like to learn Sanskrit to gain the key to the east.
Jeremiah Diaz
Learning German because I love the culture, literature, and architecture
Gavin Allen
Latin because Cicero
Eli Johnson
Learning German because I'm a philosophyfag
Hunter Nelson
Hieroglyphs, user!
Hiero- (sacred) glyphs (symbols)
Hieroglyphic is the adjective! "A hieroglyphic script is made of up hieroglyphs." Technically it shouldn't matter because you can use a plural adjective to stand in for the nouns it is describing but people will still be snooty about it
>I have many theories
Try to maintain the paradoxical tension between realizing all of your ideas and theories are shit, and that you will look stupid and naive to any expert you try to tell them to, but ALSO that you should never let go to your pet theories and ideas because they are the seeds from which your real lifelong projects will grow.
You're a rare breed so don't give up! If you just pursue learning the languages, you will be leagues ahead of your competition by the time you get to grad school. Just maintain that passion user.
Don't forget to learn Greek and French too since they built the fields of archaeology and egyptology, and learn the history of the discipline and the history of the Near East as well. Also, read Jan Assman - a friend once recommended him to me and he's great.
Nathaniel Martinez
>because I love the culture
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Jacob Gonzalez
Spanish right now, then maybe afrikaans just because it's apparently easy (I'm Swedish). If I still feel like learning new languages by then I'll study French, German or Arabic
James Anderson
Latin. I studied it in high school, but never got that far. Hoping to read texts from the middle ages and renaissance and move on to the other romance languages.
Aiden Peterson
>Ancient Greek
>because its a beautiful tongue
>1 week
>need actual texts to help