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blackbootz  ·  3012 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I'm leaning (old) Greek

    The nice thing about learning a "dead" language is that you don't really have to be able to compose or speak in it, which makes things a lot easier. As long as I can recognize the part of speech when I see it, I'm good to go; I don't necessarily have to be able to pull a given grammatical form out of thin air. I can learn at my own pace and in my own way.

I'd never thought of it that way. Speaking as someone who took years of Russian, I'm happy for you having come up with a way to never have to conjugate verbs, only read them. Brilliant.