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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6326 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 9 of 21 09 September 2010 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
He quoted what he was referring to, namely, your very first sentence was "Hell there Professor" rather than "Hello." 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| divexo Groupie Australia Joined 5071 days ago 70 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 10 of 21 09 September 2010 at 3:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
Oh hehe, I'm rather silly aren't I! But something silly like that doesn't really deserve rudeness, but apology accepted... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5142 days ago 2238 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 11 of 21 09 September 2010 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You are welcome, divexo. Farber's book is somewhat dated. It was written in the early 1990's and is pre-intenet. I still think that his advice is good and his methods can be adapted to our new media. Good luck with your studies! Edited by iguanamon on 09 September 2010 at 4:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| divexo Groupie Australia Joined 5071 days ago 70 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 12 of 21 13 September 2010 at 9:03am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks.
Still interested to see if Prof A responds, maybe he won't but i really want to know his answer! Edited by divexo on 13 September 2010 at 9:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| justberta Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5465 days ago 140 posts - 170 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Indonesian, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 13 of 21 20 September 2010 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey Divexo.
First rule of polyglottery: Do NOT blindly trust spellchecks. Always manually check everything after having translated/spellchecked something. I don't know why you want to start with a dead language such as Latin. Italian is a much better choice, suitable for your level. Start with ONE language. If you still love Italian after a few years (Yes, it will take a few years to become somewhat fluent) You may learn more languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| divexo Groupie Australia Joined 5071 days ago 70 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 14 of 21 22 September 2010 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Haha yes I really should use a proper dictionary or something.
Nah Latin will be far easier to learn to gain a high reading fluency than Italian will be to be Fluent. Thanks for your concern, but i know it's possible to reach some fluency in both of these within the year, and i will be taking up a third language perhaps after 6 months or so, depending if i can perhaps even get to a close enough label as 'basic fluency' in these by then (6 months is my goal for both) I am a very fast learner and thanks to my memory, I would be surprised if I am not able to meet these goals, even if I have not self-taught before. Maybe you are right though, but i doubt it, I am determined to succeed and so I will - this is just how I am, i set high goals and force myself to get there ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| arnika Newbie Ukraine Joined 5056 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: English | Message 15 of 21 23 September 2010 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| Budz Octoglot Senior Member Australia languagepump.com Joined 6253 days ago 118 posts - 171 votes Speaks: German*, English, Russian, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Mandarin, Cantonese, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Persian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Swahili, Vietnamese, Polish | Message 16 of 21 25 September 2010 at 3:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hah, Latin will be easy to gain a reading fluency!!!
Please report on how you get on. Personally I suspect that it's a lot easier to become fluent in Italian than gain a high reading fluency in Latin. Have you actually tried to learn Latin before? Do you have any idea of the difficulties? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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