Artimi Posted August 14, 2009 Report Share Posted August 14, 2009 I found this free course http://courses.pullins.com/course/view.php?id=16 registered and started reading and getting ready.. Then it said, it is better to listen to the audio portion with book. What book?? any way I have ordered the book and 2 others, (they were somewhat inexpensive) but the soonest they will be here is probably Sept or mid Sept.. but as I said above, I will try once more to learn Latin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maty Posted September 5, 2009 Report Share Posted September 5, 2009 I found this free course http://courses.pullins.com/course/view.php?id=16 registered and started reading and getting ready.. Then it said, it is better to listen to the audio portion with book. What book?? any way I have ordered the book and 2 others, (they were somewhat inexpensive) but the soonest they will be here is probably Sept or mid Sept.. but as I said above, I will try once more to learn Latin. Take care with the audio portion. I have discovered the hard way that (for example) Germans, Italians and English write the same Latin, but the pronunciation is vastly different. And no-one really knows how the Romans did it. Good luck with the learning. It helps a lot if you understand the rules of grammar in any language, but especially your own. And with Latin, as with any foreign language, it helps if you spend a lot of time in that country, so spend time hanging out with Caesar and Suetonius and reading academic stuff on a topic you enjoy that is mainly English but which also has a number of words and quotes in Latin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artimi Posted September 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2009 There is a site called Before You Know It. It is a less expensive Rosetta type thing They had a sampler for Latin. It is a strictly vocabulary sampler. I am finding it is a good way to use some study time before the other books arrive. My downfall with any language I have tried to learn, is vocabulary, grammar and spelling. Hey that covers everything, should tell me something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladius Hispaniensis Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 Here's another online course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if4XZVFTK5A Found it pretty useful actually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Goblinus Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 All I will say is that one should not study Latin and a Romance language at the same time. You will be mixing things up all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artimi Posted March 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2010 I have been trying to find out how to add the accent - to long vowels in Latin on the keyboard. so far no joy. Help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docoflove1974 Posted March 29, 2010 Report Share Posted March 29, 2010 (edited) It seems that there are no ASCII codes for the macron letters. You could always do the International Phonetic Alphabet version (as I do), which is to use a colon (: ) after the vowel; that's IPA for a long vowel. Edited March 29, 2010 by docoflove1974 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artimi Posted March 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2010 It seems that there are no ASCII codes for the macron letters. You could always do the International Phonetic Alphabet version (as I do), which is to use a colon (: ) after the vowel; that's IPA for a long vowel. thank you, I have made a note this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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