Kyo had come to the gigantic ancient structure to study, while he had been able to learn on his own many things, he needed access to the library and its vast stores of knowledge to be able to pick up Kumo in any reasonable length of time. Of course this was his fourth visit in as many days, and while it was meant to be his last as he wasn’t enjoying spending the time he could be perfecting his techniques rather than on studying in a scholarly manner in the great library over the last few months with his spare time, it wasn’t necessarily going to be so. While he had quickly mastered the basic twenty phrases that everyone should know in a language when they first start learning it, he had been taking his time to move on past it. Kyo sat at the table he had been sitting at for the last few months, the books he was reading had been stashed nearby and he had grabbed them on the way, of course he would return them to their designated spot after he was truly finished, but in the meantime he quickly wrote out the phrases he used could speak easily on the sheet of paper in front of him.
Γεια σας, Σας ευχαριστώ, Είσαι Καλώς ήρθατε, Καταλαβαίνω, Δεν καταλαβαίνω, Λυπάμαι, Με συγχωρείτε, Δεν μιλώ, Είμαι από, Παρακαλώ, Αντίο, Ναι, Δεν, Πώς είσαι, Καλή, Κακό, Καλημέρα, Καλό απόγευμα, Καλησπέρα, Καληνύχτα
Translation: Hello, Thank you, You’re Welcome, I understand, I don’t understand, I’m sorry, Excuse me, I don’t speak ________, I am from ________, Please, Goodbye, Yes, No, How are you?, Good, Bad, Good morning, Good afternoon, Good evening, Good night.
He knew he needed to expand what he could speak easily with no thought, and that is why he was here now with the books and the recordings he had brought of a reading of the said books. The large cassette player he had purchased allowed him normally to listen to music when he wished, but it was going to prove to be a much more useful tool than its normal activity, at least while he was attempting to expand his knowledge of ancient Kumo. Opening the book that he had first on the tape that was already in the player Kyo started it and spoke the words along with it as he read them in the book and just after he heard them in the player. He quickly found that as he continued reading further, that there were a few expression in Ancient Kumo that had fallen out of use when the common language that was now spoken throughout the continent became more prevalent that he had heard before. He continued this for an hour, reading and listening to the tape before taking a break and standing from his chair, removing the head set and setting it on the table next to the book that he had been reading before stretching his back by leaning back and then rotating his arms and dancing about for a moment to bring circulation back to his body.
Kyo took a fifteen minute break, where he switched out the tape for one of music and simply listened to a few songs before popping it out and replacing the recorded book, finding the place he had left off and continuing once more refreshed and his ability to focus renewed as if he had just started again. It was a technique he had developed for book learning, and it allowed his brain to process what he had just learned before adding more to it. He had found he understood things more thoroughly and longer if he used this method rather than simply powering through things. In the end Kyo spent a good eight hours studying, and ten hours total in the library that day. This would repeat it’s self on days he could get away with it, though he normally could only spend a three to four hours in the library studying like this due to his obligations at the academy and with the training conducted with his family nearly every day.
It would take Kyo several more trips with these study habits to the library, with much more reading, speaking and writing, but he was doing well on his way to learning this variety of Ancient Kumo. Soon enough, the boy was able to speak it without using a reference book, though by this time he was still making minor mistakes he could speak it with ease. The small tests he did from the material provided for shinobi wanting to learn it were passed despite a few mistakes here and there. As time went on, he would become more fluent and be able to speak it easily, even surprising his mother by speaking to her one night in it when his father was out dealing with something else. Kyo wondered if he could convince Miko to learn the language, after all with so few people speaking and understanding it these days, it could be used as a code language, though he figured it would be ineffective against the ANBU and Kumo’s scholars it would mean that they could have relatively safe conversations about whatever they wished in out in the open.
[Word Count: 839]
[Attempting to Learn Ancient Kumo - Vulgar]
Γεια σας, Σας ευχαριστώ, Είσαι Καλώς ήρθατε, Καταλαβαίνω, Δεν καταλαβαίνω, Λυπάμαι, Με συγχωρείτε, Δεν μιλώ, Είμαι από, Παρακαλώ, Αντίο, Ναι, Δεν, Πώς είσαι, Καλή, Κακό, Καλημέρα, Καλό απόγευμα, Καλησπέρα, Καληνύχτα
Translation: Hello, Thank you, You’re Welcome, I understand, I don’t understand, I’m sorry, Excuse me, I don’t speak ________, I am from ________, Please, Goodbye, Yes, No, How are you?, Good, Bad, Good morning, Good afternoon, Good evening, Good night.
He knew he needed to expand what he could speak easily with no thought, and that is why he was here now with the books and the recordings he had brought of a reading of the said books. The large cassette player he had purchased allowed him normally to listen to music when he wished, but it was going to prove to be a much more useful tool than its normal activity, at least while he was attempting to expand his knowledge of ancient Kumo. Opening the book that he had first on the tape that was already in the player Kyo started it and spoke the words along with it as he read them in the book and just after he heard them in the player. He quickly found that as he continued reading further, that there were a few expression in Ancient Kumo that had fallen out of use when the common language that was now spoken throughout the continent became more prevalent that he had heard before. He continued this for an hour, reading and listening to the tape before taking a break and standing from his chair, removing the head set and setting it on the table next to the book that he had been reading before stretching his back by leaning back and then rotating his arms and dancing about for a moment to bring circulation back to his body.
Kyo took a fifteen minute break, where he switched out the tape for one of music and simply listened to a few songs before popping it out and replacing the recorded book, finding the place he had left off and continuing once more refreshed and his ability to focus renewed as if he had just started again. It was a technique he had developed for book learning, and it allowed his brain to process what he had just learned before adding more to it. He had found he understood things more thoroughly and longer if he used this method rather than simply powering through things. In the end Kyo spent a good eight hours studying, and ten hours total in the library that day. This would repeat it’s self on days he could get away with it, though he normally could only spend a three to four hours in the library studying like this due to his obligations at the academy and with the training conducted with his family nearly every day.
It would take Kyo several more trips with these study habits to the library, with much more reading, speaking and writing, but he was doing well on his way to learning this variety of Ancient Kumo. Soon enough, the boy was able to speak it without using a reference book, though by this time he was still making minor mistakes he could speak it with ease. The small tests he did from the material provided for shinobi wanting to learn it were passed despite a few mistakes here and there. As time went on, he would become more fluent and be able to speak it easily, even surprising his mother by speaking to her one night in it when his father was out dealing with something else. Kyo wondered if he could convince Miko to learn the language, after all with so few people speaking and understanding it these days, it could be used as a code language, though he figured it would be ineffective against the ANBU and Kumo’s scholars it would mean that they could have relatively safe conversations about whatever they wished in out in the open.
[Word Count: 839]
[Attempting to Learn Ancient Kumo - Vulgar]