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Anybody else out there understand Latin?

Anybody else enjoy it?

I have a Latin Vulgate Bible if that tells you anything. I know of a few other Latin speakers on the board. I have been known to make very corny Latin jokes from time to time. I'm also kicking myself now because I missed a chance to go to a Latin mass last night.

Can't say so, I only know a few words... Though I know of a few that are addicts, including one staff member. It's only a matter of time before she picks up on this one...
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*awaits for Ashley's return...tic tock,tic tock..*

Latin's great.

im in latin 2 at school, and the only reason im not failing is becasue my latin teacher is SUPER lenient

meh, im TERRIBLE at latin

Sic, sic...meum nominem est Ashley, et ego deditium latinam.

Seriously though, yes I'm really into Latin. I took all 4 years of it in high school, on top of participating a lot with the club (secretary, president, chairwoman to a state board, convention coordinator). I'm really much more of a vocab person than I am on grammar. I'm horrible with endings.

What is up with all of these christmas avatars? They're starting to get on my nerves. >"<

Sorry, off-topic. I was going to say...I've studied a little bit of Latin and Greek, but I can't really do much more than pick out a few words at this point.

Ashley wrote:I'm really much more of a vocab person than I am on grammar. I'm horrible with endings.

I'm the exact opposite. I don't have a huge vocabulary, but I know the grammar really well. I guess that's why they make dictionaries.

my girlfriend knows some latin shes taking it in school

Madeline wrote:What is up with all of these christmas avatars? They're starting to get on my nerves. >"<

Um. Because it's Christmas time?


Anyway, I took three years of Latin in high school and really wish I would have taken the fourth year, but that was a really long time ago. I've never been good at learning vocabulary in a second language (either Latin or Japanese or Spanish, I've tried all three), but I am good at grammar - I think it's the math in me. Somehow, I've developed a very strong English vocabulary and that helped a lot in Latin in HS - or did Latin help the English vocab?

Anyway, I only really remember first declension nouns now and a little bit on second. Vocab is really hard for me.

Hic puer est Quintus
Quintus est puer Romanus


That was the first Latin I learnt when I was 11 (I'm 21 now). I wish I stuck with Latin and did it for GCSE instead of Art (I failed it. Obviously the examiner wasn't a manga fan!)

Strange though that I still remember the basics pretty well. I did have a good teacher though...

Latin really ended up helping me a lot, even being out of it now. Anatomy and Phsyiology was a lot easier to handle knowing all the latin stems, my english class suddenly made sense because I understood now what a direct object and indirect object was, etc., and my vocabularly was greatly increased because suddenly I could look at a word and think quite literally:
excruciating
ex- out of
Crux- cross
Oh! Out of the cross.

Or absent:
ab- away from
sent, sunt, sum- I am, they are
Oh! They are away!

Stuff like that. It was always very rewarding. I can still say the pledge of allegiance, which makes my family impressed and my fellow students write me off as a total geek. XD

Ashley wrote: I can still say the pledge of allegiance, which makes my family impressed and my fellow students write me off as a total geek. XD

You mean you can say it in Latin, right? 'Cause just knowing the Pledge of Allegience in English isn't super difficult.

LOL, good point Arbe. Yes in latin.

Ah, yes, Latin. *twitch* @_- Eighth period, five days a week. Only three days 'til Finals. *twitch* Second declension, masculine, accusative, plural ending: -os.
I'm not really so much addicted as I am haunted. XD
Yes, Latin is scary. We conjugate our nouns. Still, scariness aside, I've come to rather enjoy this language. It's kind of useful sometimes on English vocabulary tests.

So I'm curious, which system did you guys learn on? Wheelock's, Cambridge, or LFA (Latin For Americans)? I used LFA my first 3 years, but then our teacher changed to Wheelocks. I ended up buying my wheelocks book so I could have it for reference in the future.

The only Latin I know is French and spanish. s'bout it.

Nice to see you again Supa Dupa Ninja.

I use Wheelock for my first year, and an old ecclesiastical Latin book for my second year.

ey! my fellow catholic! you guys thought about Latin [I]latin[/] in church school CDlviking?

I never went to a Catholic school until seminary, but it is required here.

it should be. veritas unum. always.

>>>So I'm curious, which system did you guys learn on?<<<
I'm using LFA, as well. It's not so bad, but our teacher's book is several pages off from ours. It causes quite a bit of confusion.... *sigh* Poor lady... She's teaching three different subjects at once, and my Latin class is monster-sized. The Spanish class has all the fun.

Heh, just wait til you get to the stories of Publius and Quintus, Kesshin.