Best magical way to learn up an ancient language

[Slytherin]

What are the best magical methods to learn the intricacies of ancient languages like Sumerian, Latin, Egyptian, Hebrew etc, other than stealing memories of the dead who spoke the language in life and telepathic link transfer with an entity or the dead. Can I build a translator with technomagic or something else, which will better than the AI translators

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Alas, no and no.

 

[Xingtian]

Here's what you do: find out about an obscure text that no one has translated that you really want to read. Then force yourself to learn the language so you can read it.

 

[Taudefindi]

You seek historians that make their entire careers out of learning ancient languages, then you try to learn from them.
There is no magical way to do so, even if by some miracle you were able to "do an assassin's creed" you would still not be able to learn old languages as your modern body isn't used to them.

 

[Amur]

One thing I found helpful in Aleph-Bet was just to repeat the letters until I knew them. Repetition is a must in learning ancient languages.

 

[ByAMountainOfBooks]

As someone who studied more than one ancient language: the key lies in practice, practice and practice. To really get used to the intricacies you need to read, and translate a lot.
Unfortunately there is no demon that turns a switch in your head and then suddenly you understand what’s written or said.

 

[Taudefindi]

Unfortunately there is no demon that turns a switch in your head and then suddenly you understand what’s written or said.

If there was, many linguists, translators and polyglots wouldn't even bother learning another language and would just seek a demon for that.

 

[Xenophon]

There IS a method, O ye-all of little faith. One obtains 3x5 squares of purest vellum parchment (common copier paper may be substituted.) Then, between sunset and sunrise every night, one copies tables of the arcane tongue's declensions, paradigms, vocabulary, etc. By day, he silently recites these to himself while facing the long-ago land's direction. With diligence and attention, the magic should begin to kick-in within a twelvemonth or two.

The method works. I once met with a coven in the University of Texas' Waggener Hall for 6 hours a day in the summer. (For cover, the Ancient Languages faculty styled our rites an "Intensive Course.") By summer's end, we had covered enough Ancient Greek to let most of us take regular grad-level classes. Ain't that magickal?

Seriously, learning an ancient language is mostly a matter of well-planned effort.