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The best resources that you have found to learn ecclesial latin.

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The best resources that you have found to learn ecclesial latin.

Thanks!!
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Hi jbelokur,

Are you trying to learn it fluently? Or simply want to be able to follow the Latin Mass and pray in Latin? I’ve learned most of my Latin from a few pages in the back of my Confirmation book that has most of the Catholic prayers in English and Latin. There’s also a great Latin prayers website, preces-latinae.org/index.htm, which has most prayers in English and Latin, as well as a link to an online Latin dictionary.

If you are interested in learning the grammar of Latin, there is this lesson-by-lesson tutorial I found a few years ago that explains Latin grammar in quick and simple terms: cherryh.com/www/latin1.htm

Hope this helps, et Deus te benedicas!
 
I’ll check out the link too, but I’m pretty sure you want “benedicat” there.
 
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This English Index lists, in alphabetical order, seemingly significant words used in the “general meaning” glosses of Base Forms underlying one or more surface (word) forms in lesson texts. For each English word, base forms having that word in their general meanings are shown, along with links to every usage, in every numbered lesson, of the associated surface forms. With this index, one may click on any link to perform a quick “usage look-up,” and thereby study how surface forms in texts are constructed from base forms sharing a general English meaning word. In order to reduce clutter in this index, certain high-frequency English “function” words are ignored unless there are no “content” words in the meaning.

This index was created by software, not by human hand, using lesson materials authored with very few constraints on the expression of “meaning” other than it being in English. Selecting significant words from free-form text via software is a notoriously difficult task. For example, while most meanings in these lessons are expressed as “glosses,” some or parts may be comments directed toward the human reader, who is expected to discern the difference. Computer software cannot yet make such subtle linguistic distinctions, so all words in a meaning are treated alike. With few exceptions, then, all words are indexed. The results are neither produced nor presented with any claims to superior linguistic sensitivity, but at least the full meaning texts are shown for your inspection and judgment. Modest effort was invested in tuning the software to ignore [apparently] superfluous, high-frequency words (e.g., the preposition “of”) that, in the presence of [apparently] more important words, contribute little or no useful information to an index; unfortunately this may result in some words, in some contexts, being unfairly omitted.
 
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As well as other threads which may be found by a Tag Search for learn latin. You might also check in with the [group=26]Latin lately (Speak latin, or want to)[/group] group.

And, concur: benedicat.

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Just a comment here, I know a guy who studied Latin and it was a marvelous “root”
language for him, now he can decipher a number of words in a number of languages, all
thanks to High School Latin. And btw, he’s in his 60s
 
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Has anyone tried Rosetta Stone for Latin?
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Yeah, it’s brutal. It’s only redeeming feature is that it serves as a very expensive flash card program which is good for vocab, but that’s about it.

That said, I’m a big fan of wheelock.
 
Thanks to you all. I’ve been having difficulty learning Latin and very interested in it. I’ll check out the sites.
 
I’ll second the recommendation for Wheelock’s. Used it in high school and on my own to further my studies after I graduated.
 
Yes, my mistake, that should have been ‘benedicat’. While I excel at understanding English grammar (for my age, 14), that tends to just fall apart when I study other languages, especially Latin, as there just aren’t many fluent, Latin-as-their-mother-tongue speakers. So just tend to mix around the endings to see what sounds ‘right’ to me; benedicas didn’t sound completely right to me, but I went with it anyway because I couldn’t think of anything else. =D
 
As someone who seems to be able to pick up languages easily, I highly recommend Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin published by Catholic University of America Press. It’s a lot of work though, so you have to keep at it, but this is the best way I’ve come across after looking around for ages to learn Church Latin.

Wheelock’s is another standard of Classical Latin, but it doesn’t focus primarily on Biblical Latin or Latin of the Early Church Fathers.

Plus, you can get it used for like 10 bucks or something.
 
Chinwa;:
I’ve been having difficulty learning Latin and very interested in it.
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For that “full immersion experience”, you could switch the user interface of your computer, and software to Latin — assuming you use Linux.

jonathon
 
You might want to check out Lingua Latina by Hans Orberg. I think it is a wonderful way to learn latin. The entire book is in latin. It tells the story of a Roman family throughout its chapters. It begins with the simplest of sentences “Roma in Italia est,” I believe, and introduces words and grammatical usages and concepts one by one. It is replete with illustrations to help with this. By the time you finish the book you will know how to read latin, at least intermediate latin. It comes in two series, Pars I and Pars II, which include the main book (which is all you really need), a student manual, a book of exercises, etc. The second book is made up of actual selections from classical latin literature. It’s the best! And I’m not just saying that because Hans is my uncle 😃 Seriously, I find it very effective.

God Bless
 
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