#teaching latin

[astralduck08]

Latin is fucking cool. click the readmore if you wanna learn some. :DDDD also disclaimer not a latin teacher, rather a high school student not gonna b great at this lol

for @human-n0-l0ng3r

some vocab!

salve- hello (plural: salvete)

vale- goodbye (plural: valete)

canis- dog

puer- boy

puella- girl

interficere- to kill

a sentence using that vocab

canis puerum interficere - the dog killed the boy

how do you know who's doing the killing?

cases.

cases are in all languages. if you're a native speaker of a language, you wouldn't notice, because they're instinctive.

there are 5, but i'll only go into 2 right now. the simplest two: Nominative and Accusative.

the Nominative is the subject of the sentence that is Doing the Verb.

the Accusative is the object of the sentence that the Verb is Being Done To.

in this sentence (canis puerum interficere - the dog killed the boy)

canis is our nominative, and puerum is our accusative. but wait! you say. "why did puer become puerum?"

good question. it's so you know that the word is not nominative. each case has word endings so you know that the word is the accusative versus the nominative. it's a little (not exactly) like adding an -s to english words to pluralize them.

when the word puer (nominative singular) becomes accusative, it becomes puerum (accusative singular).

that was some basic cases and vocab! i hope you enjoyed it and maybe learned something!!

[cessavi]

I havent yapped about the cambridge latin course enough so here’s a good yap. On stage 26 “tribunus” with students for reference

1. I have one class that’s absolutely OBSESSED with the astrologer from stage 19-20. Like had a student write 18 pages of fic about the astrologer’s background lore (not canon) and read it out to the class. Do you KNOW how difficult it is to get a class of 13 year olds to listen for 18 pages of reading????? (They’re also specifically obsessed with the actor for the astrologer on the CLC web portal because he has such a stellar performance in one of the skit videos)

2. The cogi assassination plot is. So. Fucking. Good!!!!! So much drama!!! So much character analysis and excellent characterization!!! And then it all ties together meeting rufus in “tribunus”

You really cannot skip a single story in this book and teaching it is such a treat

[its-caesar-bitch]

does anyone else who teaches (or is taking/going to take) AP Latin want to pool resources? i realized it might be easier to crowdsource than to make everything by hand!

if you're interested, can you respond to this post or send me a message?

[stickfiguregods]

There have been a number of incidents of racism and sexism that have made headlines in classics, but one of the persistent offenders seems to be the Paideia institute:  

https://classicssocialjustice.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/statements-on-the-paideia-institute/

I have personally got a couple of independent confirmations of their disrespect for women and minorities from women though some back channels.  If you search "sportula Paideia" in the latin facebook groups and on twitter more will come up.  

In response to these incidents and in the context of incidents of racism at major classics conferences many folks are boycotting the Paideia conference in Feb in NY and planning an alternative conference at the same time nearby.  I think this has a real chance to be an inclusive alternative, so I hope that folks here will consider coming and even better offer to give presentations.  If you go to the link ourvoicesinclassics.com you can suggest presentation ideas or nominate someone to present.  I am going to present on how and why I not only teach by speaking Latin but also ask my students to speak as well and how that opens the language up to a wider audience.  

[abwatt]

@quomododragon, here’s another idea for you.  

You can make these books, and some matching paper dolls.  By moving the dolls around inside the ‘rooms’ of the paper dollhouse, you can get students talking about the difference between in + ablative or in + accusative; trans as opposed to per, and other prepositional phrases.  You can also use them to prompt students to develop vocabulary lists for four different rooms in a house, or four different regions of the Roman Empire, and use them to talk about travel.  As a writing prompt, set up four such books on four separate tables, and have students write in Latin about what they see going on in several rooms.  

If the tutorial I’ve written on how to create the books isn’t enough, you can find plenty of other tutorials online, for example this one.  I’ve written about this book design here, as well.  

[stickfiguregods]

You definitely give it a place of honor and store your laurels on it.

[stickfiguregods]

Modern Latin Idioms

Ok, so everyone is worried we are going to create a dialect of Latin by speaking it and that eventually that dialect of Latin is going to evolve to the point that it is too far from classical Latin to help you understand Cicero. In that vein I wonder what corrupt barbarisms we have created to date. Please add to the list and tell me, is this your fear too?

Navis id = ship it

Figidulus = cool as in good not temperature

Verundus = awesome as in good but not about fearing the gods

Puellex = gender neutral young person (seems like this fills an imprortant need!)

Nerdus = because sometimes “umbraticus” is not enough

Pippiatorium = the twitters

Prosopobiblion = the facebooks. A Greek-derived word. Why? No idea.

And.... ?

[stickfiguregods]

Students learn to speak Latin, ‘the un-dead language’

Immersive Latin offers to make a historically elite subject more equitable.

What spoken Latin can do. (How to get your students to chant “sanguinem” and other nugae)