Have to agree about the medieval latin being easier to puzzle through than classical. I think part of it is that they tended to use a word order structure closer to English, and simpler sentences.
That said, I took 4 years of it in high school, and a semester in college, and never really reached a point where I could do a thing without a dictionary at hand.
For comparison purposes, a similar amount of time spent on French left me able to read most books and write a coherent essay with only occasional need to resort to a dictionary, although I never really mastered the spoken side. Four years of German left me ready to tackle advanced lit courses in college, and by half way through college I occasionally dreamed in it.
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Date: 2010-06-13 01:41 am (UTC)That said, I took 4 years of it in high school, and a semester in college, and never really reached a point where I could do a thing without a dictionary at hand.
For comparison purposes, a similar amount of time spent on French left me able to read most books and write a coherent essay with only occasional need to resort to a dictionary, although I never really mastered the spoken side. Four years of German left me ready to tackle advanced lit courses in college, and by half way through college I occasionally dreamed in it.