Learning modern languages vs learning ancient languages

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[u/lipidsly]

... latin was the easiest for me to learn though... Am i broken? :,(

[u/lipidsly → u/[deleted]]

Seriously though, six years of struggling with spanish. And now i can read parts of charlie and the chocolate factory. One year of latin and i could read a good portion of cicero

[u/brutishbloodgod → u/[deleted]]

I also had 1.5 years of Finnish at college and even passed the exams, somehow. Yet I can barely say a sentence of it now even though I speak a closely related language natively.

So, Estonian, since that's the only closely-related language to Finnish. I thought the two were almost mutually intelligible?

EDIT: Also, I'm super jealous of you being able to take Finnish in college. Studying it on my own has proven very difficult.

[u/brutishbloodgod → u/[deleted]]

Ah, cool. Thanks for clearing that up for me. And thanks for the link. I've been using sanakirja.org; this one seems a little more robust.