/lit/ - Literature

Wheelock and LLPSI

>>17580357
thanks anon, I'll look into these

>>17580317
LLPSI isn't /lit/, just bashing all the paradigms into your head is.

In all seriousness: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/latin

LLPSI for fluency, and just about any textbook to help you learn grammar and syntax. I like Latin via Ovid.

>>17580317
after studying Latin for years in high school I abandoned it and forgot much but I am re learning it throug Lingua Latina per se illustrata.
It Is a very nice straightforward coursebook, I wish I was taught using it in the first place.

>>17580317
I used the Cambridge Latin series back in secondary. It uses the LLPSI method of teaching you grammar via easy reading texts but I found Cambridge stories a lot more engaging and fun to read than the LLPSI ones. Despite that, they are both great resources to use together.
Get wheelocks if you want to learn extremely fancy grammatical terms and concepts.

>>17580317
Salve, amici. Based Chad philologist here. I would recommend drilling paradigms for noun declensions and learning all verb types eodem modo. Function and form of the subjective can be acquired by the same way. Start with elementary reading (Latin New Testament), slowly progressing towards Cicero (Pro Roscio Amerino, In Catilinam, Pro Archia Poeta). Only then should you attempt poetry, perhaps starting with Ovid (Metamorphoses) and then moving on to Vergil (try the 4th Eclogue -- it's not representative of the genre, but the language isn't terribly difficult and its literary significance is far-reaching), afterwards the Aeneis, Lucan and Lucretius. Spero, ut tibi bene vertat atque faveant superi tuis conatibus. Vale.

>>17581855
Also I now claim ownership of this thread. Any further questions should be directed to me, as I am very based. Vobis gratias ago, discipuli! -- et disciplis meis multum est discendum!

>>17581945
What's the best way to memorize vocab? also, did you learn Greek?

>>17582034
Learn a modern Romance language on the side, preferably Italian. Otherwise, keep a vocabulary notebook. Sit in a quiet room and write each new word at least three times. And yes, I know Greek very well, actually wrote my thesis on the reception of Pindar's epinikia in Quattrocento Neo-Latin poetry. I translate jokes into Greek for fun because I am very based. Here's an excellent example:

Ἕλλην καὶ Ῥωμαῖος τις τυγχάνουσιν ὄντες ἐν ἀγορᾷ ἤρχοντο διαλεγόμενοι περὶ τοῦ ἔρωτος:
>Φέρε δέ, ἔφη ὁ Ἕλλην, παρ ἡμῖν ἐγένετο μὲν πρῶτον ὁ ἔρος: δηλονότι ταῦτα ἐστιν.
>ἦν δ' ὁ Ῥωμαῖος: ὀρθῶς λέγεις, ὦ βέλτιστε, ἀλλὰ ἡμεῖς τὸν ἔρωτα πρῶτον καὶ τὰς γυναῖκας ἐπαιδεύσαμεν.

>>17582276
Wow, what a shit recommendation. Also I already mentioned that all questions on this thread should be directed to me, not to unwelcome interlopers like you. YIKES.

>>17582276
>American Latin verse
Latin American is better.

>>17582306
YIKES. This is a thread about Latin, not Spanish.

>>17581855
who do you think would be a good author, prose and poetry, to test your Latin chops at an advanced level, after having read a lot of Vergil and a little bit of Cicero and Tacitus?

>>17582973
Exzellent question. I would suggest Tacitus (esp. dialogus de oratoribus, compare it with the late letters of Seneca) and the preface of Ab urbe condita (which you should compare with the 'ktema es aeì' part of Thucydides). Middle and Renaissance Latin authors are also quite difficult. Salutati, Bembo, Valla, Poliziano, Filelfo etc. The list goes on.

There is a great textbook for learning Latin through Latin (and some common knowledge), introducing concepts (nouns, adjectives, grammar, cases, etc.) proceedurally and reinforcingly. I remember for once of the first few pages: Roma est in Italia. Roma non est in Germania.
Would rec, but dunno name.

>>17582973
Maybe someone like Gildas, who is very weird, or Macrobius or Boethius and Apuleius. Tertullian can be quite difficult and so can Lucretius. But really it doesn't get harder than the Tacitus of the Annales.

>>17580317
Take a uni course

>>17583114
Hey, anon asked me, not you. Cringe.

>>17583188
My answer is superior. Who cares about a bunch of literally who renaissance humanists? Lmao

>>17583241
hmmmm perhaps philologists?

>>17583246
Exactly. Thanks. Pseud silenced.

>>17581559
>fancy grammatical t
this is your brain on non-classic education. things that your great grandparents knew easily are now seen as academic.

>>17583113
Hint: your textbook is mentioned five times in the first six replies in this thread.

>>17583113