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| samfrances Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4050 days ago 81 posts - 110 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 4 04 November 2013 at 4:23pm | IP Logged |
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Does anyone know of (or can anyone describe) a roadmap for learning Latin grammar? I know that one has to learn the verb conjugations and the noun declensions, but I have very little idea what else you have to learn before you're "done" learning the grammar.
For the purposes of this question, I'm abstracting away from the fact that learning Latin would require you to learn a lot a vocabulary as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| michaelyus Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4563 days ago 53 posts - 87 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Italian, French, Cantonese, Korean, Catalan, Vietnamese, Lingala, Spanish Studies: Hokkien | Message 2 of 4 04 November 2013 at 7:16pm | IP Logged |
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As Latin is a school subject for many, a lot of examination specifications outline a lot of the grammar in a clear roadmap.
After verb and noun accidence comes adjective accidence, including tricky i-stem vs consonant stem, and degrees of comparison (good, better, best). Thereafter, it's all about usage of cases, of tenses/moods/other parts. I'd say related to that, it comes down to particular types of clauses (participle-based; ablative absolute; purpose, result and effect clauses; positioning clauses with time expressions; conditional statements; indirect speech). Edited by michaelyus on 04 November 2013 at 7:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5226 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 3 of 4 04 November 2013 at 8:38pm | IP Logged |
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Here's a simple idea. Go to the Amazon.com page for Wheelock's grammar.
http://www.amazon.com/Wheelocks-Latin-7th-Edition-Series/dp/ 0061997226#_ Click on the free preview and look at the names of the chapters in the TOC. There's your roadmap. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| samfrances Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4050 days ago 81 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 4 04 November 2013 at 9:11pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks both. I'll check out Wheelock's grammar.
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