This comment will be updated along with the guide, as a changelog.
Thanks to @[email protected], i've added the vulgate and a textbook in portuguese.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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I just randomly found this. Great tips, will take a look at these. i already have wheelock and LLPSI. I tried a bit of latin on duolingo just for fun but I stopped after these insane examples.
Latin Duolingo (and duolingo in general) is infamous for being plain bad. I'm pretty sure the first example (roma est in italia) is incorrect if you put est in the end, despite it being correct both ways.
Those examples are very weird. LLPSI alone is much more effective than latin.
Yeah I just read the llpsi introduction and learned way more in 10% the time
Have fun learning Latin, just stay away from duolingo :D
I will keep it just for my norwegian. I almost finished the course. Also sunk cost fallacy I have a 1600 day streak Β―β \β _β (β ββ _β Κβ ββ )β _β /β Β―
DAMN, that is some dedication. here i am almost losing my 40 day ukrainian streak lmao X)
Yeah honestly starting with duolingo for any language is shite. There is no structure and it honestly took me really long to figure out how definite and indefinite form work. It's simple but it's never explained anywhere and also my native language does not distinguish those two.
If you have some basic knowledge of a language and can skip to a bit later it's an alright tool just for vocab.
Hos canales de YouTube volo commendare (I want to recommend these YouTube channels)
-https://www.youtube.com/@SaturaLanx
-https://www.youtube.com/@FoundinAntiquity
-https://www.youtube.com/@ScorpioMartianus
Added, thanks!
Consider taking up witchcraft and joining a coven. From what I've learned through movies, magic is done entirely in Latin.
Double-plus, you can teach your cleaning tools to levitate, so better for the environment than riding a car to work
I tried to learn how to become a witch in latin, but all i found was how to burn them βΉοΈ
It's a common mistranslation; you're not meant to burn the witches, you're meant to smoke up with them.
Just remember to puff, puff, pass! Or rather, "Fumum fumum trade."
Magus primus: "Fra', ubi cannabis est? Fumare uolo sic?"
Magus secundus (elixus et fistulam habendum): "Aa fra', nescio... scrutabor, mane... ...mane! In manu mea!"
Magus primus: "Ooo... uere?" [Secundus primo fistulam dat] "Gratias multas, fra..." [primus fumat] "Ergo... ritum quando facemus?"
Secundus: "Risum?"
Primus: "mmffffffffhahahaha"
Salve! Optimus index librorum de educatione tuus est, gratias tibi ago. Has commendationes dem:
Libri grammatici
Libri in lingua Latina
Dicere in lingua Latina
- Colloquia Familiara
- Quomodo Dicitur
- Stephen Wilby - Guide to Latin Conversation
- Hints/suggestions for beginning to speak Latin
Index verborum
Historia et libri scholastici
- Mary Beard Gifford Lecture
- Mary Beard - Risk and the Humanities
- Adrian Goldsworthy YouTube
- AWOL - Ancient World Online
- Sententiae Antiquae
Nuntii
Thanks, i've added most of these, these are all great resources! (the ones i didn't were mainly the scholars, since they were about rome, not latin :( )
Portuguese speakers: here's a great free Latin 101 textbook.
Other tips for people starting out:
- Even if you aren't Christian (I'm not), the Vulgate is a good starting point to read stuff written in Latin, since it's written in a clear and streamlined language. Past that, I'd recommend Caesar.
- Cicero is messy, avoid it at the start. Catullus is fun but be aware that poetry has its own quirks.
- Don't feel afraid to use Latin. Language proficiency requires reading and writing; write about your day in Latin, or translate something that you enjoy. If you can't find good Latin vocab to refer to modern concepts, it's fine to borrow something on the spot, or reuse some old word.
- You'll hear horror stories that say that "three is death", about the third declension and third conjugation. Don't pay too much attention to those stories; instead make sure that you have a good grasp on how nouns and verbs work, before hitting those two, then it's all about memorisation of a bunch of patterns.
Added, thanks!