/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2655764]

Ave, profligates. I'm about to head to the used scroll shop. Are there any scrolls you can recommend that would help me to increase my Latin skills? Preferably edutainment rather than textbooks.

[Anonymous No.2655781]

buy the metamorphoses and a latin dictionary

don't be a pussy

[Anonymous No.2655788]

>Wanting to learn a dead language
>Expecting /lit/ to get a videogame reference.

Just memorize some latin sayings to impress girls and you're golden.

[Anonymous No.2655795]

http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus/aides/allgre/
http://www.cherryh.com/www/latin1.htm
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/latin/wheelock/unit01/
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~wcd/Latin.htm
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/latin/advanced/popup/grammar-table.htm
http://jonathanaquino.com/latin/index.php

Some contradictions in Philosophy there, but I just thought to dump my bookmarks onto you.

I suggest you purchase Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata by Hans Orberg, and go through it, while memorizing grammar tables. At least that's what one of the links says.

[Anonymous No.2655801]

>>2655795
Hey, thanks, man. I was looking to learn phrases more than I was hoping to be able to go back in time and best Cicero, but those will be helpful.

[Anonymous No.2655827]

>>2655764
You better start learning some declinations. It's easy once you know the structure.

[Anonymous No.2655862]

How do you increase your Latin skills without a goddamn textbook? You have to memorize conjugation, unfamiliar (to Englishmen) grammatical functions, and tons of vocabulary, much of it with no English or French derivatives. You pretty much just have to "do" Latin.

Wiktionary has really nice conjugation tables, I guess.
Also this: http://www.warmenhoven.org/latin/vocab/

>>2655795
That one link is kind of a faggot. Memorizing grammar tables and doing Lingua Latina are all well and good but there's really no reason to hobble yourself by trying to learn grammar solely by inference. Just use a combined arms effort of Lingua Latina + Wheelock/Cambridge/whatever. The biggest criticism it levies is that you won't "read as the Romans did," but very few Latin literate people do anyway.

>>2655801
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_%28full%29
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Juvenal
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martial
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ovid
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Terence

[Anonymous No.2655903]

>>2655788
Maybe he wants to read Latin literature?

The only people who use that "dead language" argument are idiots who have never touched a book in their life.

[Anonymous No.2655912]

>>2655862
>much of it with no English or French derivatives
No shit. Do you expect a language that stopped evolving 2000 years ago to incorporate words from languages that didn't even exist then?

[Anonymous No.2655924]

>>2655912
Yeah man, I totally meant that the Romans should have incorporated more words from English and French. That's infinitely more likely than that I meant Latin has a lot of words that don't have derivatives IN French and English.

Also, Latin never stopped evolving. Romance languages come from Vulgar Latin, which was the various forms of.. vulgar, common Latin, distinct from the Classical Latin of the aristocracy and educated.