this latin textbook is forty chapters and they may as well have titled each one "and here's a new set of inflections"
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I guess a bonus is this makes learning any romance language trivial
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"oh it's just bastard latin with some vocab from the people they got conquered by"
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After a week or so, I found I could make myself understood in Italy by speaking Latin with a Hollywood gangster accent. Almost always worked. But, insight into how English works may be more significant. English is Viking-talk with a Latin overlay.
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If you want to learn pre-Christian Germanic law, Anglo-Saxon or Icelandic could be helpful. And then you can read Beowulf. Ða com of more under misthleoþum Grendel gongan, Godes yrre bær; mynte se manscaða manna cynnes sumne besyrwan in sele þam hean.
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more specifically I'm interested in frankish material, for instance law codes formalized under their aegis and how those changed over time
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and yknow just the general documentary stuff
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