Timeline for Learning German helpful for any other language learning?
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| Sep 14, 2014 at 13:35 | history | edited | Yves | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2014 at 21:28 | comment | added | Lumi | Tenses: Latin:French = basically 1:1, same for the other contemporary Latin languages. I'm German and I studied first Latin, then French, then Italian, and I never get it when people from Latin countries explain to me how German is so similar to Latin … In my experience it is not at all. Ceterum censeo: Everybody should learn Latin, at least a bit! | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 18:20 | comment | added | Johannes Kloos | Allow me to disagree. German is my native language, and I found the grammatical structure of Latin and German to be quite different. Sure, there are similarities, and if you speak a language that doesn't have, e.g., noun cases, learning that aspect of Latin will complicate things. But staying with the example, the Latin noun case system seemed to be way more complex to me, and knowing things from German didn't help much. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 16:48 | comment | added | Yves | Some grammar structures similar to Latin and Latin languages (if you need details): Declension and cases, tense structures and conjugation, participle tenses and adjectivation, adjective declension, substantive declension (even if mostly old-fashioned in everyday life). | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 16:18 | comment | added | Johannes Kloos | "A lot of German grammar structures are very close to Latin, so it will help you learn other Latin languages." - Citation needed. While German shares some properties with Latin, the Romance languages are much more similar to Latin, and many of the features that both languages have in common (case system, tenses, ...) also occur in many other Indo-European languages. | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 11:05 | history | edited | Yves | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 12, 2012 at 10:58 | history | answered | Yves | CC BY-SA 3.0 |