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| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6387 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 1 of 6 15 November 2009 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Since all I really want to get out of Latin is really the ability to read the original source material, I was wondering if I could basically jump in and start doing parallel texts to reach that level quicker. So I have a few questions:
1. Is this really a good idea so soon? I have three months of a fairly quickly moving Latin class under my belt and will be concurrently enrolled in it for a while, if that matters. 2. If it is a good idea, what specifically do I do other than read both versions bit by bit and attempt to understand how the sentence works in Latin? 3. What Latin authors might be the best for this at the level I'm at? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6445 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 6 16 November 2009 at 4:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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1) Why not? I started after less than 3 intensive days, from no background in Latin, taught to me via Sprachprofi. We covered all the regular conjugations and declensions.
2) Good question, and I don't have a good answer. 3) I've been reading "Harry Potter" in Latin, as it's quite approachable; the classical authors are still too hard for me to enjoy. As you're interested in original source material, you may want to consider starting with medieval or other post-classical authors. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5527 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish* | Message 3 of 6 16 November 2009 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
Do you have any other translations into Latin? I know of Asterix, Donald Duck and Winnie the Pooh. To the original poster: When it comes to more advanced texts, you have to go with Loeb Classical Library, they have excellent parallel editions in a handy format. Then there's Perseus digital Library, a free online resource of the classics, with every word translated and parsed (grammatically analysed). Load up two windows, one with English and one with Latin. www.perseus.tufts.edu 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6445 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 4 of 6 16 November 2009 at 8:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
Unfortunately, I don't. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6476 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 5 of 6 16 November 2009 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Not parallel, but also worth consideration: Lingua Latina. It's two volumes of immediately understandable Latin text - not short slices of Latin as lesson texts, but actually all Latin text. The first one starts out at zero. The second book contains simplified passages by popular Roman authors. After that, you're presumably ready to read these authors in the original.
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| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6387 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 6 of 6 17 November 2009 at 12:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks to everybody for the advice.
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