r/latin

I’m 15 and want to learn Latin. I’m writing a book and a character speaks Latin a lot for lore reasons and I don’t trust Google Translate. I do have Duolingo but I used it for German a while back and it didn’t work well it got boring and didn’t teach me anything important. I do want to learn Latin however because a lot of languages originate from it so I was wondering if there was any good apps or something like that.

Salvete omnes! I'm about to start an after-school class introducing 8-10-year-olds to the Latin language, and could use some advice on where to turn for resources.

When I learned the language as a teenager, I largely used Wheelock before moving on to readers and primary texts; I know a lot of K-12 schools base their intro curriculum on Ecce Romani. This is going to be a less structured program, there are definitely no textbook orders in the works, and the key imperative will be to make Latin *fun*.

If anyone has experience with a program like this and can point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it! Any source of inspiration will help me along this journey :-)

So I've been using Wheelock's Latin to teach myself. It's been going ok so far, since Latin isn't the first foreign language I'm learning (I did German a few years ago).

It all started as a thought "oh it would be cool if I can challenge myself and learn Middle High German" because my friend started sending me Minnesangs, but then somehow I ended up learning Latin instead.

I am currently at Chapter 9 of Wheelock. I'm going back to college in September so I really want to learn as much as I can in the last few days. Realistically speaking, is it possible to get to Chapter 20 or something before September?

I'd also appreciate any suggestions on how I can learn better!

So beside the big three (Cicero, Lucretius, Seneca), are there other philosophy texts in latin BEFORE Augustine ? If possible non christian, doesn't matter if it's just one book. Thanks.

Hi!

I am learning Latin for 3 weeks now by myself.

My aim is to get ready for the first year of a potential theology studies next year, to be already able to tag along.

This is, what I did so far (and I hope it was worth it):

Bought the LLPSI book + workbook (I am on chapter 5 now).

With AI:
I learned how conjungations and declinations work for the "common" verbs and nouns (so all about the "bellum" and "Roman" theme.)

I can already recognize verbs quite well in the present tense, imperfect tense, perfect tense, past perfect tense, future 1 and future 2 tense, but only indicative active, so no subjunctive nor passive.

Also, I am quite confident in recognizing the five cases.

I can already translate smaller sentences with qui, quae, (subordinate clauses), like

"Puella servum laudabat, quod is eam amabat." or "Dominus, qui puellam laudat, servum videt."

I also learned to recognize the acI.

Also learned, that like "bona puella" goes together (KNG-thingy).

So right now, I feel like I already learned a lot in those 3 weeks (but, this might be only 10% of what is still to come...)

My question is now, how can or should I advance further?
Should I stay with what I learned for now and just repeat it over and over again? Should I focus more on specific tenses? Should I learn passive and subjunctive now?

I am happy to hear your feedback!

(English is not my first language, so I hope you can understand me :) )

Salvete, Romani novi! Qua verbis "et", "-que", "atque" utimini? Curiosus in usu distinctioneque tenue eorum sum. Gratias ago.

I'm curious for in depth pronunciations of medieval latin:

English pronunciation of latin 1200 - 1600
Carolingian pronunciation of latin in the 800s
What people would have prescribed as classical latin pronunciation (from any time after the fall of the roman empire)
Old french pronunciation of latin
Old italian pronunciation of latin
Old occitan pronunciation of latin

I know word final m and n can nasalise the preceding vowel in classical latin, but what is the high prestige way to pronounce word final m and n? Like, the letter y pronounced by most romans in greek loan words was /i/ or /u/, but if you were extra schloarly, you pronounced as /y/; I'm wondering if there was anything similar going on here, would knowledgeable people pronounce word final m and n, or was nasalising the vowel preceding the consonant more fashionable?

Cause I could have sworn duolingo didnt used to pronouce: the v as a w and the c as a k.

Hi, I got into this Latin class offered by my university, it will start early september. Any tips? My native language is a latin language, and I have a B1 in french if anybody has specific resources for that!

I think I read on Vox Latina that it is an exception mentioned by grammarians, that a word like nostrās being from earlier nostrātis is accentuated as nostrás. But I don't think I ever heard this being pronounced like that before, surely I'm a beginner but all videos and introductory books I saw that introduce the pronunciation never mention this, is it because it's a rare exception? I don't think I ever heard anyone say for example Aquīnās as Aquīnás, not even Wiktionary suggests it for this word despite saying nostrās is nostrás. How do most people say it?

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These books confuse me! I got the familia romana the text book and the companion and the excercitia latina 1. Where are the answers? Is there a place I can buy a workbook I can actually write in the spaces are too small in this one. I'd like to buy the workbook and answer keys.

"Plerumque eum non animadvertunt; cum tamen animadvertunt, [...]."

Is it okay to omit "eum" in the second clause? I already added "tamen" to convey the English discourse meaning of "[but] when they DO [notice him]".

Both were written -VVS (e.g. CONTINVVS [kɔnˈtɪ.nu.ʊs] and ÁCTÍVVS [aːkˈtiː.wʊs]).

I've been learning Latin for about 2 years now, and all throughout I've noticed a strange pattern of ablaut/umlaut in verbs, whereby the thematic vowel A changes to E or I, usually when prefixed or in the perfect tenses. For example:

Facere --> Feci

Agere --> Egi

Cadere --> Accidere

Scandere --> Ascendere

Tangere --> Contingere

I've always assumed this was some sort of umlaut or i-mutation, like what happened in a lot of Germanic languages, but I want a second opinion. Why does this happen, and is there any regularity or predictability to this? Why does it happen in some verbs and not others (like Vadere)?

This has been bugging me for a while. Thank you!

I have looked at many sources and videos, and I’ve even used AI, but honestly, it feels like everyone is saying something different. So, is it pronounced Fran-kee, Fran-chee, or Fran-tsee?