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If I study three hours a day, and able to pick up languages very quickly, how long will it take? Also, how hard is Latin? Thanks.
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It isn’t like other languages because it is almost impossible to practise it with other people. You are simply learning vocabulary and grammar (a very complex grammar, at that) and studying old texts. There is very little updating or making the language relevant to modern times, although there is a radio programme in which a certain amount of this is done. http://www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii/
When you talk about picking up languages quickly, this is probably by listening and responding. With Latin you simply have to sit down and learn. It takes years. But three hours a day and a great deal of determination should help considerably and maybe you’ll be as successful as morporc in making rapid progress.
i would guess about 3 months to have a good understanding
about 48 hours after you eat your latin book.
It depends.
For example, the Latin course I’m taking had barely gotten me past the second declension in the course of 3 months, and this is with me working nearly everyday.
Latin is different from other modern European languages. It has a very different grammar (word order hardly matters) and it often has a very unfamiliar way of looking at things (there is no obvious word for ‘family’ in Latin).
Everybody finds the first five or six weeks really difficult, but after that most learners find that something has clicked inside their head, and it suddenly gets a lot easier. (If you can get as far as this click, you will find yourself thinking about language in a completely different way – it is a slant on reality you won’t get anywhere else).
If you are reasonably good at langauges you will probably find that you can read gravestones, inscriptions, mottos … inside about six months. Even this much Latin is worth having, there are a lot of amazing inscriptions our there (especially in Europe).
After about a year you will probably be ok for lyric poems, short pieces of historical gossip, and some letters (Pliny the Younger watched Vesuvius explode, and wrote a letter about it. Reading that in the original language is awesome).
Another year (two years) you should be ok for legal documents, folktales, proper historical gossip (what Suetonius says about Caligula is unbeleivable), basic church Latin, medieval magic books …
There is always further to go – Latin is such a big language. But even just being able to do gravestones and inscriptions is a gas.
This depends on what your aim is: Full fluency in basic conversation will come more quickly, than the advanced fluency needed to read highly evolved literary texts.
So: basic spoken skill – about 3 years of immersion
High level fluency – around 5 – 6 years ( i.e. just as long as it would take a foreigner to learn English)
You can find a complete audio course, which is free, here:
http://latinum.mypodcast.com
There is a community of users of the language here:
http://schola.ning.com
We have about 50 minute periods where I go to school, 1 of which are Latin.
I have been taking Latin for roughly 3 years now.
It is quite simple to learn if you have a good understanding and stay on task. Our teachers always make us play games and things to help us learn to understand Latin.
Personally, without a class or games or anything, I believe that Latin will be impossible because it would get real boring real fast.
After being in Latin 3 years (they counted my 2 middle school years as 1, so I am only in Latin II) I have learned over 500 vocabulary words, noun endings, over 6 forms of verbs and their endings, and lots of other things as well.
It takes quite a while. There are many different conjugations and declensions to memorize. I take it in school, and we take 3 years for the 40 chapter text book (about 3-3 1/2 hours a week in class)