Latin Lessons

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I apologize if this is the wrong forum in which to ask this question, but I am not sure where it would belong.

Can anyone recommend a good Latin language course? One that a middle aged person can fathom, LOL?

Thank you.
 
I wouldn’t mind something like that for myself. I have a couple of books about learning Latin, but I do my usual and put it off til later! :eek:
 
Christy_Beth said:
I wouldn’t mind something like that for myself. I have a couple of books about learning Latin, but I do my usual and put it off til later! :eek:
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My sister-in-law once used a course that had flash cards with it, which made the lessons fun. The lessons were more for children (although that may be what I need, too!).
 
I love this one
“Linney’s Latin Class”
You want to go to book lectures and download them
linneyslatinclass.com/

I thought it was great for someone like myself that wanted to learn the “basics”.
This newer link is if you want to buy his introductory book “Getting Started with Latin”

gettingstartedwithlatin.com/

*This *link is the book he uses in teaching his “Linney’s Latin Class”

“The First Year of Latin” Gunnison/Harley

google.co.uk/books?id=qbM…Harley#PPR3,M1

Also, this helped me to get familiar with the Mass
Latin Mass in MP3/Podcast

I listened to this while following along in my missal. It’s the whole Mass with the propers (readings) of the Mass from “Trinity Sunday”.
I downloaded the “Full Mass” (“save target as”)

http://www.latinmassireland.org/thelatinmass/latinmass_audio.html
 
Get yourself a really good English/Latin/English dictionary. I have Bantam’s New College Latin & English Dictionary (5.99 USD), and have been able to cobble together some simple but correct Latin phrases from the grammar instructions in the front of the book.

A lot of people like Wheelock’s as a textbook for ease of use. I have it, but don’t refer to it much.

I’d also recommend Barron’s 501 Latin Verbs as a reference. I sometimes have a bit of trouble trying to find out the type of conjugation of a verb, then trying to find a particular tense/mood/voice; 501 Verbs does a full conjugation for each verb.

Also – learn your paradigms!! Dictionaries and lists never tell you that such-and-such is a first-declension noun or third-declension verb etc – you have to figure out declension/conjugation from an entry that simply states “ros.a -ae f” or “rego regere rexi rectus”.

And finally, always remember: Semper ubi sub ubi!
 
novatrix said:
I apologize if this is the wrong forum in which to ask this question, but I am not sure where it would belong.

Can anyone recommend a good Latin language course? One that a middle aged person can fathom, LOL?

Thank you.
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For a beginner self-student, I always recommend [post=2538492]*Learn Latin *by Peter Jones[/post]. (Or any other resources on that thread – But *Learn Latin *should give you a good grounding and indication whether a middle-aged person should try more rigorous courses)

tee
 
Lepanto said:
“Latina Christiana” is what you need.

Google it.
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I’ll second that:thumbsup:

I have started using Latina Christiana DVD’s and the teachers manual, and have found it quite easy to learn the basics.

I watch a lesson a day and it is like sitting back in class again.

I even stand up when the teacher say’s “Surgite” and sit back down when she say’s “Sedete”, and then realised that she can not see whether I do this or not:D

The down side to Latina Christiana is that some of the pronunctiations sound different to what I have heard, but they explain that people pronounce Latin differently to each other.
 
Pious said:
I even stand up when the teacher say’s “Surgite” and sit back down when she say’s “Sedete”, and then realised that she can not see whether I do this or not:D
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As evidence that teacher cannot see you: She is addressing you in the plural – Singular would be *Surge *and Sede. 😉

tee
 
tee_eff_em said:
As evidence that teacher cannot see you: She is addressing you in the plural – Singular would be *Surge *and Sede. 😉

tee
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Of course, she is speaking as though to a full class and not to an individual.

So yes she should be saying “Surge” and “Sede” to me.

Thank you for pointing that out.🙂
 
Ghoti said:
A lot of people like Wheelock’s as a textbook for ease of use. I have it, but don’t refer to it much.
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Wheelock’s is an awful book. Hardly to be liked for ease of use. For ease of use, check out the appropriately named Latin Is Fun.

I use this text as the basis for the Latin classes I teach to elementary school students.

– Mark L. Chance.
 
mlchance said:
Wheelock’s is an awful book. Hardly to be liked for ease of use. For ease of use, check out the appropriately named Latin Is Fun.

I use this text as the basis for the Latin classes I teach to elementary school students.

– Mark L. Chance.
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I knew there was a reason I wasn’t really using Wheelock’s…

I can’t remember who recommended it to me. I’ll try your suggestion.

As it stands, I’m not even what you call a dilettante. I hack through a translation with my dictionary. (eep)

To the OP: Go with Mark’s suggestion over mine. I went by hearsay, and have barely cracked the spine. Mark is a real live Latin teacher (which I think is considered a venial sin in some circles, BTW) so he knows of what he speaks.
Latin is a language
Dead as dead can be
First it killed the Romans
Now it’s killing me*
 
Our Latin class used the Cambridge SCP course. (The books and the website.) As it was quite simple and you can progress slowly or quickly depending on how you like it.
It was useful for us. 🙂
 
mlchance said:
Wheelock’s is an awful book. Hardly to be liked for ease of use. For ease of use, check out the appropriately named Latin Is Fun.

I use this text as the basis for the Latin classes I teach to elementary school students.

– Mark L. Chance.
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Hi Mark,

When I click your link I am being sent to the Vatican web site and the ORDINATIO SACERDOTALIS
OF JOHN PAUL II; have you given the wrong link:confused:
 
Pious said:
Hi Mark,

When I click your link I am being sent to the Vatican web site and the ORDINATIO SACERDOTALIS
OF JOHN PAUL II; have you given the wrong link:confused:
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Doh! Somehow my cut and paste function must have SNAFUed on me. Mea culpa maxima.

Try this link here.

:o

– Mark L. Chance.
 
Tips22 said:
Our Latin class used the Cambridge SCP course. (The books and the website.) As it was quite simple and you can progress slowly or quickly depending on how you like it.
It was useful for us. 🙂
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If you don’t want to self-teach and want someone to work with you, checkout Seniornet. They use the Cambridge course.

I think the classes are free but you have to be a member which is about $40 per year, if I remember correctly.

seniornet.org/jsnet/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=45
 
Thank you, everyone, so much! Wow, lots of possibilities here, and I truly appreciate it. Something I remembered today that I need to look for, because it seemed to help my nieces and nephew with their lessons; they had tiny refrigerator magnets with latin words on them, and the children were encouraged to form sentences and have other family members tell them the translation.
 
Does anyone have any feedback on the Rosettastone software for Latin?

Thanks,
 
Here are excellent resources:
It is great you want to learn Latin. Read what the Baltimore Catechism says about Latin:
Q. 566. Why does the Church use the Latin language instead of the national language of its children?
A. The Church uses the Latin language instead of the national language of its children:
    • To avoid the danger of changing any part of its teaching in using different languages;
    • That all its rulers may be perfectly united and understood in their communications;
    • To show that the Church is not an institute of any particular nation, but the guide of all nations.
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