Hi friends ... i'm a new member here ... and it's my honour being here in this great forum indeed ....
well, i'm just writing this post to ask for your advices if possible ..
actually i plan to learn Greek/Ancient Greek/ Latin ...
The question that always confuses me is that ... :
what are the differences between Greek and Latin languages ????
and how can i begin studying such a difficult language as a beginner .
wish to find some helpful books (E-books) for Latin/Greek/Ancient Greek languages for beginners ......
thanks soooooo much ......
Want some help .....
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Re: Want some help .....
I am sure some one knows better than I do but some of those who know both Latin and Greek have not replied yet.darkman wrote:Hi friends ... i'm a new member here ... and it's my honour being here in this great forum indeed ....
well, i'm just writing this post to ask for your advices if possible ..
actually i plan to learn Greek/Ancient Greek/ Latin ...
The question that always confuses me is that ... :
what are the differences between Greek and Latin languages ????
and how can i begin studying such a difficult language as a beginner .
wish to find some helpful books (E-books) for Latin/Greek/Ancient Greek languages for beginners ......
thanks soooooo much ......
I don't know Latin, but it has the same Alphabet as English. That would be an advantage, but it does not take all that long to get used to the Greek Alphabet.
I am guessing that Latin vocabulary might be a bit easier than Greek because there are more English words derived from Latin.
As to your question how to begin studying one of these languages as a beginner. Except for native speakers, we all started as beginners .
Pick a beginners grammar and dig in.
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I have to disagree with this. It's not that sparse. I've been working on my etymology 1400 Latin word list and I would say that it's possible to connect about 20 to 30 percent latin vocabulary with greek -perhaps even 40 percent. Latin directly borrowed quite a few greek words. Those are easy to recognize, but many genetically related words (that aren't borrowed) can still be recognized even with little or no historical linguistics training.but their vocabularies share few words
I suppose basing my assumptions on heavily used words might skew the ratio a bit, but the most frequent words are the ones that are worth memorizing anyways...