Reading through the old posts on this site I see that you all seem to really analyse every word you read. I've only been studying latin since august this year, but I'm trying just to read the language, be it with a dictionary in my lap. Would you recommend this way of learning latin, or is it indeed better to really analyse every word?
The thing is I learned english and german in holland without ever learning anything of declensions and all that stuff, I just picked it while listening to music and watching tv. Of course latin is a bit different, since it's hard to come by latin music and tv, and I have learned the declensions and verbs and all that. It's probably naive of me, but I'm hoping that just through reading it on a daily basis it will come to me. Is this indeed too naive of me and am I wasting my time this way?
. At first you can cheat your way through, in the early chapters of a beginner's books on Latin, because normally just knowing what the words mean will tell you what the sentence means, but often that is not possible when reading more complicated stuff. You really have to analyse each word then or you risk making loads of mistakes (says someone, who still tries to cheat her way through Latin classes by only knowing the meanings of words 
, and I can tell you now, it doesn't really work 
).
