Any tips on studying a language? Such as books?
Studying a language.
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@Dynasty
1. Total immersion
2. Listen to the children
8 days later
Don't spend time focusing on grammar or rules. Just focus on communicating with natural speakers.
I find watching movies without subtitles helps.
Reading also helps.
You will never be fluent without total immersion, though.
A close substitute would be to date someone that speaks the language you want to learn. If your boy/girlfriend speaks that language, you're a lot more likely to have regular exposure to it.
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@Dynasty
Buy a dictionary of X language to Y language.
YouTube Learning, random teaching videos, videos in the language you want to learn.
Buy a favorite book of yours that you already own, in your language that you wish to own.
Use an online dictionary.
67 days later
Which languages are you interested in learning?
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@Polyglot
Latin for example.
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@Dynasty
I suck with languages, so I couldn't tell you. I only know English well enough to communicate with others with the exception of a few phrases like "sic semper tyrannis" or, "E Plurbus Unum".
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@Dynasty
Maybe start a forum game, that has to be in the language you want to learn. Or join a website that is in another language, you want to learn.
Maybe satus de ludum forum, quod habet esse in lingua vobis volo discere. Aut iungere a website ut est in alia lingua, non volunt discere.
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@Lemming
Or join a website that is in another language, you want to learn.
I don't think there are that many websites available in Latin.
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@TheUnderdog
Ah, an opportunity to create.
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@Lemming
You'd have to learn Latin first. Or get google to translate the page into Latin.
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@TheUnderdog
I would start with a language that at least uses characters with which you are familiar in English, such as one of the derivatives of Latin, before trying to tackle Latin. Yes, English uses Roman characters, but, in keeping with my first suggestion, you cannot immerse yourself in Latin anywhere, being effectively a dead language that is used in medical and legal worlds, but they memorize those words and short phrases, and I'll wager, by experience [my brother is a physician] that they have no clue about the language beyond that which is memorized. You can't memorize a language. French, Spanish, Italian, are good starts.