What languages should I learn if I want to read the most beautiful literature and poetry in its native tounge?

What languages should I learn if I want to read the most beautiful literature and poetry in its native tounge?

Either Italian or French

Also Japanese?

No

I have little to no knowledge of japanese poetryand literature, try asking on /int/ or /jp/ if you are curious.

Attic/Koine

You need to know at least 4 languages.

Latin

REASON TO LEARN LANGUAGES

Ancient Greek Odyssey
Italian Divine Comedy
German Thus Spake Zarathustra
Russian Brothers Karamazov
French Remembrance of Things Past
Spanish Don Quixote
Japanese Kemono Friends

Answer is still German desu

/Romance/
Latin
French
Spanish
Italian

Russian and German.

>Poetry
French or Italian

Arabic

Arabic poetry is godtier.

French for general literature.

Japanese is an ugly language.

Latin
French
Ancient Greek
Japanese

>German
You mean Faust right.

Italian, Russian, Latin and Greek.

German
>Faust
>Kafka
>Nietzsche
French
>Proust
>Hugo
>Rimbaud
Italian
>Dante
Latin
>Virgil

>learning languages

>Latin
>>Virgil


Epic:
Ennius - Annales (fragments)
Lucretius - De Rerum Natura
*Vergil - *Eclogues, *Georgics, **Aeneid
*Ovid - **Metamorphoses
Lucan - Pharsalia
Statius - Thebaid
Silius Italicus - Punica

Drama:
*Plautus - *Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus, Amphitruo
*Terence - Andria, Hecyra, Phormio, *Adelphoe

Non-epic poetry:
*Catullus
*Horace - Epodes, Odes, *Satires/Sermons, Ars Poetica
Tibullus
Propertius
*Ovid - *Amores, *Heroides, *Ars Amatoria
Juvenal - Satires
Statius - Silvae
Martial - epigrams

Prose fiction ("novels"):
Apocolocyntosis
Petronius - Satyricon
*Apuleius - Metamorphoses/Golden Ass

I am saddened by the lack of comedy in Divine Comedy.

Nonetheless, it is a good read.

>languages
>plural
protip: you'll never understand a foreign language well enough to appreciate it's poetry unless you spend decades on it
Pick one and stick with it

Read in your language and encourage a culture that reads. The larger the book market, the more stuff will be translated. No need to learn a new language.

Every year moor books are translated into Finnish than Arabic.

Urdu and farsi

This
Or this?

you're asking this as if you're gonna learn multiple languages. Who are you kidding, user? Only yourself.

i wish /jp/ wasn't such cancer. why are there so many jap boards but no board for non-weeb jap culture

Germany is hardly a country anymore. Absolutely not worth learning it at this point.

There will always be good stuff that simply won't be translated though. Or poetry that doesn't even work in other languages.

*godtier* yea yea kys and try not to take anyone with you. fuckin snackbar

Japanese literary world is pretty weak, poetry wise its 70% muh yukiko ( falling snow bullshit, how the cherry blossons petals look like fine snowflakes and shit )

There's no such thing as borders anymore, user.
Deterritorialisation, you know. That's the case for most countries.

French, Italian, German and Russian, but the latter is too fucking hard. Oh, and possibly Portuguese.

But it is indeed a Comedy. Paradise is a happy ending, don't you think so?

>Arabic poetry is godtier.
HAHAHAHAHAHAH

Urdu is called the language of dancing peacocks. It's a language tailor-made for poetry with some outstanding poets.

I bet the fags who always say that italian or french cant name any poets besides dante and rimbaud.

The only answer is sanskrit. Nothing compares to the vedic hymns in sound or content

Chinese has better literature and poetry, and a much richer literary tradition than Japanese.

Both are good desu
t. chink