#studying latin

[studyingmathmusicliterature]

My sister always played this piece when I was a child... togheter with some other ones, I could define it as "the soundtrack of my childhood". That's another reason for me to love classical music, besides the fact that I play it everyday.

Forgot to publish yesterday, so I'll publish twice today.

Day 4, 19 days to the starting of school year

Productive day. In the morning, I practiced Menuets (always Bach, obviously) and tidied my room.

After lunch (my brother made carbonara, it was really delicious), I studied Biology (specifically, Darwin's theory), and tried to make some flashcards. I had never tried them, but in some way they're useful (maybe doing them with a fountain pen wasn't a fantastic idea, I slightly made a mess with ink at the beginning, but would really like to learn how to use it perfectly). I made some coffee with cream and chocolate, and, while drinking it, tried another study technique, blurting. I still don't know if I like it. Then, I studied latin numerals, all types, and made sone exercises. After all this, I used an entire refill of ink (filled the pen before starting), and had my middle finger speckeled with ink. Though, I wasn't disappointed at all for this.

In the evening, I practiced more, with metronome (it was driving me crazy at some point, because I wasn't able to hear it while playing a trill and was always doing the note longer than it was).

Considering all this, I feel that it was a good day.

Better than today, at least.

Well, see you later

[calliope-and-her-words]

100 Days of Productivity: Day 4

Went to a protest against the interception of the Global Sulmud Flotilla and our government's support of Israel.

Tidied up my room.

Spent hours doing dance practice for Golden from K-Pop Demon Hunters because I kept finding things to improve. I have no self control.

Finished revising latin grammar.

[glemmeboka]

Still trying to make Latin somewhat fun and aesthetic but let's be real it's torture

[teaandplantdad]

dark academia guide to study latin

As somone who studyed latin at school for five years, here are my tips for all of you who want to teach themselfes how to speak latin:

Forget everything you know about learning a new language. Latin and Greek are different in structure from any laguage you might know. It doesn´t work like English or French or German. The translating is much more mathematical.

Grab a vocabulary book.

Study every vocab in there (it should be about 2.5k).

Realize that there is no word for yes or no but about ten related to killing and dying

Take a look at the grammar. All of it.

Study it until it´s stuck in your brain. You´ll have to remember every little piece of it. Except for maybe the NcI. I never needed that.

At this point you will probably notice that it is almost impossible to learn how to actually speak Latin. Give up that dream. Not even my Latin teacher was able to do that.

Grab any Text from Ovid or Ceasar.

Never just translate from the start to the end of a sentence. Always look for the predicate first and build your sentence up on that. Expect very, very long sentences.

Now you will realize that even translating is a ton lot more difficult than yout thought and you will probbably fail, even if you know all the vocabs and grammar. Again, learning Latin doesn´t work like lerning French. You have to analyse every letter because one small “e” instead of an “a” could change the whole translation.

Hopefully you have now noticed that teaching Latin to yourself within a few months won´t work and believing so was naive.

You could probably learn it with a proper teacher and lots of time, but then it won´t be fun anymore and you will suffer just like all of us students did learning it at school.

Forget about the idea.

Cry.

[roral-ll-notes]

why is accusativus cum infinitivo a thing...how did latin even come up with this structure

[rantylawblr]

Duolingo said gay rights in latin🌈🌈

[teainq-nightmode]

//cool subjects I'm taking this term

Last week the registration period has ended and all my courses this term re officially official. I'm taking 66 credits, so I certainly have a lot on my plate, but the classes I'm taking for my minor are super interesting (my maiior classes for this semester are kinda meh, but you can check my main @tea-inquiries​, for the post about them or my chinese langblr @chinese-maiior​ just for fun) so I thought I would share.

Latin Grammar II

This one is pretty self-explanatory, Latin minor requires learning Latin and that's all there is. I have barely passed the last term due to my maiior being extremely demanding so this time I'm focusing on staying. on the top of the things.

Reading Seminar (Caesar)

For me to take my Latin state exam and get my degree I have to read certain books, some of them translated, some of them in Latin and Ceasar is the first of them. We are reading the entirety of the sixth book of Commentarii de Bello Gallico and let me tell you, it's not fun.

Introduction to Classical Philology II 

I took the first part of this course last term and this time we're focusing on medieval Latin. It's only an hour once a week but we are doing a lot of reading and writing because thesis writing is one of the main topics in this course.

Introduction to Linguistics

I signed up for this course thinking it would be fun but the lecturer is honestly pretty bad speaker and trust me, I never sat in a classroom this quiet. He speaks in a super quiet and monotone voice and takes breaks in unnatural places, but I kept the course since it seems pretty easy and next year I'll probably be taking Chinese Linguistics and having some background would be beneficial.

Renaissance Humanism

This one is so much fun. it is indeed an epitome of studying humanities but I love it. We read a lot, discuss stuff in class, look at obscure art all that jazz. The doctor teaching us very engaging and his English accent makes my knees weak so yeah...

Study camp

Every year Department of Classical Studies organizes a week getaway to focus on your field of study somewhere in nature. The doctorand teaching us was very eager about us signing so we all did. We are going to focus on reading Caesar, do a theatre workshop and probably read Harry Potter in Latin.

Ancient Greek Literature II

Last term, Ancient Greek lit was a required course and it was a lot of fun since the docent is clearly very passionate about the subject so I decided to sign up for a continuation. The course is pretty chill, you just come in and listen about ancient authors since it is accompanied by an online course where all the info is comfortably laid out for you. It is also and recommended prerequisite for Roman Literature course so its a win-win situation.

Old Church Slavonic

You might be thinking I have clearly overshot with this one and you would be right since I have no background in Slavic languages and this a postgrad course but whoops. it sounds like so much fun and really really interesting and is a cool thing to say. Since I'm taking a lot of credits this term I can fail this course and not have to retake it if I have to move around my priorities which is comforting, so I'm just here to have a good time.

[achiievable]

It's just really frustrating when you've been translating Sencas work for the past couple of days without really making any progress.. it's still as hard to translate as it was when I started 😔