I have a much closer feel for the romance languages, actually. There is a great divide in Norway: half of us study French, the other half German. Those of us who study French develop an irrational fear of cases. Which is the main problem in terms of learning German.
If I could get my head around cases, I am sure it would be feasible. That was my main problem with Russian, as well. I can't get a feel for it. Probably because I have never had the time to sit down and just get a feel for it.
Perhaps not.
Agreed.
Have you read Georg Brandes on Nietzsche, by the way? I keep almost buying his writings on him, and I would give rather a lot to get a hold of their letters to each other. I hear they are marvellous.
It seems to me that Norwegian would be much closer to German than English is - it looks from my limited contact with it that Norwegian didn't expropriate all the Latin and Norman French that has changed English, and given how easy it is for an English speaker to understand simple words in German just by guessing, I would assume it would be even easier for you.
If I could get my head around cases, I am sure it would be feasible. That was my main problem with Russian, as well. I can't get a feel for it. Probably because I have never had the time to sit down and just get a feel for it.
It was an uneven book for me, but there are certainly LOTS of isolated parts that I feel I will be quoting or referring to for the rest of my life, and so my verdict is an unqualified "great", but I'm not sure if most of the people at this site would care to plow through six-eight pages of Zarathustra fulminating at the world to get to one of those great parts.
Perhaps not.
On the eternal return, I believe it was a direct response to Schopenhauer's thoughts on the subject. So much of Nietzsche was a response to Schopenhauer, yet it's amazing how much greater (qualitatively and quantitatively) the response was than the originator.
Agreed.
Have you read Georg Brandes on Nietzsche, by the way? I keep almost buying his writings on him, and I would give rather a lot to get a hold of their letters to each other. I hear they are marvellous.
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Also Sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- 27/11/2011 04:27:30 AM
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I love this book
- 27/11/2011 09:51:08 AM
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I would assume it would be easy for you to pick up German.
- 27/11/2011 06:00:00 PM
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"Easy" is relative.
- 27/11/2011 06:12:40 PM
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How can cases be difficult?
- 27/11/2011 06:32:29 PM
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