Resources For Learning Latin

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Does any one know of any resources available for learning Latin? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
When I was in school, I used the Cambridge Latin Course books which really helped me and got me near to conversant in Latin through learning to understand it and translate it and know how the language works and working with it.

Many people will recommend Wheelock’s Latin. I have it and have used it before and I would recommend this as well but, Cambridge Latin is more fun! 😃

Do not use a book that says it is for ecclesiastical latin. There is very little difference between the ancient Latin and the Church Latin except for pronunciation like Italians. Other than that, the Church latin books, sadly to say, are awful and dull. Shy away from those and go to the real ancient Latin books that could actually be used to help understand instead of just memorizing prayers.

God bless!
 
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When I was in school, I used the Cambridge Latin Course books which really helped me and got me near to conversant in Latin through learning to understand it and translate it and know how the language works and working with it.

Many people will recommend Wheelock’s Latin. I have it and have used it before and I would recommend this as well but, Cambridge Latin is more fun! 😃

Do not use a book that says it is for ecclesiastical latin. There is very little difference between the ancient Latin and the Church Latin except for pronunciation like Italians. Other than that, the Church latin books, sadly to say, are awful and dull. Shy away from those and go to the real ancient Latin books that could actually be used to help understand instead of just memorizing prayers.

God bless!
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I totally disagree, but then my mileage sometimes varies from that of other people. In any case, I find amazon.com/Primer-Ecclesiastical-Latin-John-Collins/dp/0813206677 to be very interesting and helpful in learning Latin as it is used in the Catholic church.
 
I would be very interested in this.
I am homeschooling, and have limited knowledge of the language myself.

But the kids have all expressed an interest in Latin.

Any and all resources would be greatly appreciated.
 
Hmm, formerly several stickies seem to have been rolled together :hmmm: Check this thread:

[thread=486782]IMPORTANT FORUM INFO: Please read![/thread]. particularly [post=2538477]post #6[/post] ff.

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tee_eff_em said:
Hmm, formerly several stickies seem to have been rolled together :hmmm: Check this thread:

[thread=486782]IMPORTANT FORUM INFO: Please read![/thread]. particularly [post=2538477]post #6[/post] ff.

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Thanks, tee.

Can’t add more to the sticky, though.
 
Another really good source is just learning prayers. Learn the Mass, various prayers, chants, hymns, etc. This won’t teach you much grammar unfortunately, but you’ll learn a lot of words and phrases this way.
 
tee_eff_em said:
There is a similar, open thread: [thread=121562]LATIN: Language Study Resources[/thread].

Also, for the OP or anyone else: Many threads are tagged with learn latin.

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Thanks for your recommendations on Collins’ Primer to Ecclesiastical Latin. I like especially how it groups verbs to one can easily see a connection; for example,

cedo,cedere,cessi,cessus - go, yield
accedo,accedere,accessi,accessus - go to, approach
concedo,concedere,concessi,concessus - yield, grant, go with, concede
discedo,discedere,discessi,discessus -depart
incedo,incedere,incessi,incessus - go, walk into
praecedo,praecedere,praecessi,praecessus - go before, lead the way
procedo,procedere,processi,processus - go forth, proceed
recedo,recedere,recessi,recessus - go back

This can be done with a lot of verbs and it shows how nicely organized the Latin language can be. This works for verbs not mentioned in the book as well, like facial expressions: ridere is to laugh, subridere is to smile, deridere is to deride, corridere is to laugh together, etc.
 
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