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Whats a good way to learn Latin? would like to learn the language of the Church.

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[thread=173658]Latin Resources[/thread]

If you can hold your horses for a couple of weeks, a group is due to begin a course through John F Collins’s *A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin *on the LatinStudy mailing list, beginning 17 March 2009. Details here.

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Latin in general or just the mass??? If your are just considering the mass, I would by the Marian Children’s Missal. I know it’s a kids missal, but it has a dialogue mass in both English and Latin. I believe you can get it from Angelus Press. This missal was first released in 1958 and follows guidelines set by Pope Pius XII’s encyclical Mediator Dei
 
I learned what Latin I know through a college course, but if you’re not currently a college student I’m sure there’s a community college around where you live which would offer a course for a reasonable cost. 🙂
 
I know this might sound kind of silly, but I actually found it easier to learn Latin after I started attended daily Mass in Spanish many years ago. Not only is Spanish more similar to Latin than English, but the translation of the Mass (in the OF) is much more faithful to the official Latin translation than the English.
 
my husband and i learned from our priest but Our Lady of Grace has great homeschool books to learning ecclesiastical latin
 
How I wish I had paid more attention at school when someone was actually trying to teach me Latin!! At the time, all I could do was learn things like-

Latin is a dead language, as dead as a language can be. Once it killed the Romans and now it’s killing me!

If you enjoy a laugh you might like the “Romani eunt domus” sketch from the life of Brian (you can easily find it on Youtube). It’s an incredibly accurate portrayal of what my Latin class was actually like at school!

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one school taught ecclesiastical latin, another taught conversational latin. neither one resounded with very well. some how, two years of it was passed. have a good year, (alih)👍
 
Latin is NOT the language of the Church.

It is the language of the LATIN Church, but the Catholic Church is bigger than just the Latin Church.
 
Cluny said:
Latin is NOT the language of the Church.

It is the language of the LATIN Church, but the Catholic Church is bigger than just the Latin Church.
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true there are many languages before, during, and after ecclesiastical latin. but it is a language that was made specifically for catholics. all the other languages already existed. although other catholic orthodoxes speak other languages they still recognize ecclesiastical latin as the language of our faith. and there was a time before vat II when the world knew the latin mass and everywhere you went you could follow and participate. this was just 50yrs ago. and already the ecc latin (the catholic language) is thrown aside with the disrespect a lot of other traditions have.
 
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