12-22-2019, 01:37 PM
Few things so broaden one's mind as does learning a language dissimilar to those that one already knows. For good reason, the educational system at one time insisted that the Best and Brightest learn Latin, and that the extreme Best and Brightest learn classical Greek. Not existing languages that one could use among peasants in the Algarve or Bohemia, which might even be more practical, but a difficult language with an archaic literature Ancient Greek was of course the original language of the really-good stuff of the Ancient World (at least west of about the current eastern border of modern-day Iran), but most of the really-good stuff from the ancient Greeks got translated into Latin, anyway. Grammar is a structure of thought... and the more grammars that one knows, the better.
Slavic languages are very different from Romance and Germanic languages, and I congratulate you on the effort.
Slavic languages are very different from Romance and Germanic languages, and I congratulate you on the effort.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.