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Evanstar
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Message 9 of 18

16 April 2007 at 10:49pm | IP Logged

Day 3

I think I'm getting better at using my 30 minutes productively which is a good thing. Today I went over the indicative forms of -āre verbs in the passive, then I went over the vowels. Next I used my latin course (versus my grammar) to reinforce my work on declension. Today I focused on the first declension of adjectives - keeping everything in the nominative case for my reinforcement activities.

I think I'm making good progress. I'm not spending much time revising as I'm not at this stage having problems memorizing.

LilleOSC: I'm looking for audio resources but not having much luck :(

So I can say some simple easy sentences now like:

The holy book is big - sacer liber est magnus
Rome is a city - Rōma est urbs
The evil spirit is here - malus spīritus est hīc
The big city is good - magna urbs est bona

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Message 10 of 18

17 April 2007 at 5:46pm | IP Logged

So then is it hard to find audio resources for Latin?I think that it would be interesting to speak Latin as well as being able to read it.
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Message 11 of 18

18 April 2007 at 2:17am | IP Logged

Two problems:

1. who are you going to speak Latin to? Not even all the bishops and cardinals know Latin well enough to follow a conference and the vast majority of Latin teachers couldn't have a conversation in Latin without a lot of thinking.

2. if you find somebody who can speak Latin, you probably still won't be able to communicate with him because every country teaches people to pronounce Latin like their native language. That is, for example French speakers will pronounce Latin like French. Good luck understanding that!

Edited by Sprachprofi on 18 April 2007 at 2:17am
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Message 12 of 18

18 April 2007 at 7:40pm | IP Logged

Sprachprofi wrote:

Good points.I never really thought about those problems.I assumed that at the very least, Latin teachers would have a good control of speaking Latin (even though it would be hard with the lack of vocabularly for today's world).Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
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Evanstar
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Message 13 of 18

18 April 2007 at 11:33pm | IP Logged

Days 4-5

I felt too sick yesterday to do any language study at all (I've been fighting a cold for a week) so I did an hour tonight tto make up for that.

I went over the second and third verb conjugations, word order (including adjectives and adverbs), some phonology affecting stems, plurals of nouns and adjectives of the first, second, and fourth declensions, and when the nominative is used.

Kind of in a hurry tonight, so that's all I'll write. :)

Edited by Evanstar on 18 April 2007 at 11:34pm
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Message 14 of 18

19 April 2007 at 10:00am | IP Logged

Evanstar,

There are audio files available at the Wheelock's Latin site.
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19 April 2007 at 5:56pm | IP Logged

magister wrote:

Evanstar,

There are audio files available at the Wheelock's Latin site.

I read in your profile that you are a Latin teacher.Do you recommend Wheelock's Latin, and what is your opinion of Evanstar's method for learning the language?
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Evanstar
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Message 16 of 18

22 April 2007 at 6:37pm | IP Logged

Day 6-8

Been busy/sick, so I did 1.5 hours today and I'll do 1 hour tomorrow then I'll be back on track. Nothing of great excitement to report - my first week has gone well. I'm trying to not get too goal-oriented as that's always when I start to get language-depressed. Just enjoying the ride for now.

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