/lang/ - Languages

>>1489

It's like learning French to then learn Latin.

Ancient Greek:

Is learning Modern Greek a viable way of then learning Classical Greek?

Modern Greek:

ees leerning meedeern Greek ee veeble wee eef leerneeng cleesseeceel Greek?

>>1517

Point taken

>>1519

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iotacism

Fuck no, they might aswell be completely different languages due to the phonological changes. Ancient Greek had motherfucking pitch accent and discriminated between aspirated and tenuis stops.

>>1523

>and discriminated between aspirated and tenuis stops.

phonologically modern greek is different in that aspect but aspirated stops simply generated unvoiced fricatives so the distinction is completely preserved.

>>1525

Good point my decadent chum.

It could be useful for the vocabulary, I watched a football coach talk with Modern Greek subs and a lot of words were familiar. I guess it's about the same as learning Latin before Italian. Their pronunciation got fucked up though. y > f? Wasn't b > v retarded enough?

>>1523

>pitch accent

It's not like anyone learns Ancient Greek that way anymore tbh fam.

>>1528

>It's not like anyone learns Ancient Greek that way anymore tbh fam.

Only if you're a fucking pleb.

How about learning modern Hebrew to then learn biblical Hebrew?

>>1582

The same, they are way too different.

>>1584

Well, they're much more similar, Hebrew skipped centuries of natural development thanks to Jewish necromancy.

>>1593

haha, I thought modern Hebrew was very Indo-Europeanized?

>>1595

Grammatically it was, but honestly the Bible is Parataxis: The Book (now with more asyndeton!). If you speak modern Hebrew I guess you'll recognize a lot of the basic things, conjunctions, radicals and such.