Can someone please recommend Ecclesiastical Latin resources?

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I have been interested in learning Latin, specifically Ecclesiastical Latin, for a couple of years. Is there a good website or perhaps a book that can help me?

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TheSurvivor said:
I have been interested in learning Latin, specifically Ecclesiastical Latin, for a couple of years. Is there a good website or perhaps a book that can help me?

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Start with Classical and then move onto Medieval and Ecclesial sources. You will find it far easier and there are far better courses available for Classical than Ecclesiastical Latin.

I would recommend; Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata by Hans Orberg which is the one I am using at the moment. You learn to sight read Latin, with the entire course being written in Latin.
 
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I would recommend; Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata by Hans Orberg which is the one I am using at the moment. You learn to sight read Latin, with the entire course being written in Latin.
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I was totally going to recommend the exact same resource. 🙂

I’ve very casually studied at least a half dozen languages, and Lingua Latina is by far the most fun introduction to a language I’ve ever seen. In fact, I wish the method was available in other languages as well, because it’s simply brilliant. Simply looking at Latin stories, and spending some time thinking about what is happening therein, makes learning the language so much more approachable, so easy to intuitively grasp, and so much more living and vibrant. The stories are very entertaining, and they will easily guide you into remembering vocabulary and grammar without any tears, frustration, rote learning, or any of the other obstacles linguistic study almost inevitably produces.

Spend a good amount of time with the two levels of Lingua Latina, and you will be well on your way to reading the Vulgate Bible, as well as dealing with the denser grammars that Latin education has produced.

Try going to the Amazon order page, and reading a bit of the book(s) via the “look inside” previews that Amazon provides: amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-Illustrata-Pars-Familia/dp/1585104205. If you’re interested in ordering the product, I would have to recommend you do so through Barnes & Noble, since they have some editions in stock. 👍
 
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Spend a good amount of time with the two levels of Lingua Latina, and you will be well on your way to reading the Vulgate Bible, as well as dealing with the denser grammars that Latin education has produced.
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I’m going to put by nose out here; the Latin of the Vulgate is extremely easy compared to Classical authors. I would recommend that if you are devoting serious time of study, that you get the Douay-Clementine bilingual Bible after a couple of months. You will then be able to sit down with the Douay-Clementine and use it to expand your vocabulary. I will repeat; the Latin Vulgate is actually very easy to read as Latin goes, you can use it as a secondary reading book alongside Lingua Latina. By the end of the first book, you may very well be able to sight read quite a lot of the Vulgate.
 
[thread=121562]LATIN: Language Study Resources[/thread], much of which has been duplicated and somewhat expanded on the Sticky: [thread=486782]Please read before posting[/thread].

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