How and where do you learn to speak Latin?

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Yes but I am saying that learning by route memory will never work for me.
I need practical exercices like trying to say hello or asking for coffee.
I wanna feel the language. Some theory is good but mostly it is about making up sententenses by feeling the language. People overemohasise theory
 
Out of curiosity, where are you planning on speaking Latin? Why the urge to speak it? It strikes me that reading it would be more utilitarian since you could at least read old Latin texts. No offense meant, but I am just wondering.
 
That’s what I was asking too. Where would one ask for coffee speaking Latin? That doesn’t make any sense.
 
Irishmom2 said:
Where would one ask for coffee speaking Latin? That doesn’t make any sense.
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So speaking a language is weird.
I learn languages that way.
You have the ability to study with much theory but it does not work for me.
I learn by practical examples. Most people do but some can also learn the theoretical way which has not worked for me.
 
I will continue, then, to recommend the Oerberg materials, expecially since you might be able to find a local course or tutor.

I would also recommend the Cursus Linguae Latinae Vivae (Course on the Living Latin Language) from the Familia Sancti Hieronymi (Family of St Jerome), which is designed as a self-study course, but (i) teaches Ecclesiastical pronunciation, and (ii) includes audio (13 cassette tapes when I bought it, 26 CD’s now, I think), including some discussions of cafeum (coffee) and other habits at jentaculum (breakfast).

http://www.hieronymus.us.com/Venalia/IndEngl.htm

Bona Fortuna
 
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How do you mean?
It seems kind of USA based. I live in Sweden.
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I’m sorry – I live in the USA and have never traveled to Sweden.

Are private tutors not a thing there?

The late Hans Ørberg was, himself, Danish. The books contain no English nor any language other than Latin.
 
Titivillus said:
Are private tutors not a thing there?
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It sounds expensive.
Also, I have never heard about private lessons in Latin. It is popular in music but not in language although I did see an add about a private teacher
In , I think, Spanish. Latin is bassically taught at schools.
 
It is a scene from Life of Brian, which I am not posting the youtube link, but if you search for ROMANES EUNT DOMUS you’ll find it.

Which it is dog Latin “People called ‘Romanes’ they go the house”

😂
 
jesusmademe said:
Who the heck chooses to learn a language with grammar first rather than practical exercices like grettings or asking simole questions?
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What you call “the natural way” is the way children learn their native language. It takes a long time. How many children under the age of 12, say, have you met who speak and write their native language using a wide vocabulary and using the grammar correctly all the time?

From the age of around seven and upward, most people find the quickest and most effective way to learn a new language is to start with the grammar, learning the verb tables and so on. It’s quicker and easier that way.
 
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Thanks for the link. I watched it. For some reason I never watchef any Monty
Python or Life of Brian. That was funny!!
 
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How many children under the age of 12, say, have you met who speak and write their native language using a wide vocabulary and using the grammar correctly all the time?
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How many people who speak Latin have you met? I have never met such a person and I have met people who studied Latin.
 
0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
I’ve seen this word used in novels from the 1800s, in the context of how one character might feel about a young nobleman who dissipated his wealth with drink and gambling.
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So the image is God turning away his face from someone?
And the image used for humble is a person very close to the ground. You see yourself as being lower than the others. The Imitatio Christi says that we should see ourselves as the worst sinners. We are not bigger/greater than anyone.
This is why we bow at Confiteor, right?
Kneeling make us even lower but it is more of a posture for adoration. The obvious qiestion would be: why is bowing more penitential than kneeling?
 
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You are asking someone to teach you a language, and in a very specific – Not unheard of, but less common than other methods – way tailored to your learning style. (Which, at the risk of repeating myself, is the very definition of a private tutor)

But you don’t expect to pay for it??

With every due respect: You need to relax your constraints.
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Titivillus:
Are private tutors not a thing there?
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It sounds expensive.
Also, I have never heard about private lessons in Latin.
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jesusmademe said:
I’ve seen this word used in novels from the 1800s, in the context of how one character might feel about a young nobleman who dissipated his wealth with drink and gambling.
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I think you may be responding to somebody else, but…

No, God does not despise a humble heart full of contrition.
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I didn’t, but I can read a good bit of it from studying Romance languages. I actually did have some books on how to learn Latin, one of which was co-opted by an Episcopalian Sunday school teacher. I don’t know how to get ahold of her, so I don’t know how to get it back, and I don’t know what happened to my other book.
 
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