If you have kids that are interested in learning Latin

Learning Latin
By homeeducationuk
http://latinum.mypodcast.com

If you have kids that are interested in learning Latin or you yourself are interested but you don’t want to pay out hundreds for an expensive curriculum or whatever take a look at Latinum. I was looking up free homeschooling resources yesterday and came across it and I’ve read the first 22 pages of the text book and despite it being written in complicated english through the first lesson seems relatively okay so far. I haven’t listened to the audio yet but from even just the book, I definately recommend it.

If you have younger kids (I’d say younger than 13) you’ll have to go through it with them, explaining a lot of it yourself but it’d probably be an excellent thing to build english vocabulary too. The course is supposed to take between three and five years if you work at it each day & I’m hoping to finish it in three or four hopefully. I’m considering attempting spanish & latin but we’ll see. It might be difficult considering I’ve only learnt french before. I started french when I was four & continued to learn it until about six months ago while I was in school and I eventually found that if you know basically what words are you can use your imagination a lot and guess vaguely what words to use in what places. It was unbelievable. Most of the class put a lot of effort into remembering the words but I’d given up after not understanding the foundations of learning verbs at all but somehow I managed to improvise my way through tests and even got the highest level once which was quite shocking.

What languages are you teaching your own children, if any? If you are teaching them the language, what resources are you using? Did your kids choose what language they learnt themselves? How much input do you have on their language learning? Is it entirely lead by you or entirely independent?

al método de George Adler

Te lo meto en este mensaje ya y así no se me olvida.
El podcast de Evan Millner http://latinum.mypodcast.com/ tiene una sección dedicada al método de George Adler (http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Adler%2C%20G.%20J.%20(George%20J.)%2C%201821-1868%22) para aprender latín que puedes encontrar en
http://books.google.es/books?id=GJgAAAAAYAAJ&client=firefox-a
yo estoy ahora haciendo los dictados que están en el podcast (dictata) y no tengo planteado por el momento hacer el método completo... PERO hace tiempo supe de un método igual para ático:

http://books.google.es/books?id=NRMBAAAAYAAJ&client=firefox-a

Sigue los mismos principios que el de George Adler... Lo comento porque Evan Millner ha hecho el método de Adler para latín y nos hemos comunicado en latín y su fluidez deja pasmado a cualquiera. Yo he retomado el Athénaze (habiéndome fijado ya una base de pronunciación, que estaba MUY descuidada, repasándome las lecciones de Kypros.org) y voy a acabar desde la 10 hasta el final del volumen I a ver si me da tiempo ahora en fiestas.

הלטינית

כן, כמו שמיכל אמרה, דווקא הבלשנים פה לא מקפידים כל-כך. אני משתדל לכתוב פה יחסית יפה ולא לדבר בערסית הרגילה שלי מהבית, למה אני יודע שיש כאן כמה אנשים שזה מקפיץ אותם שאני מדבר ככה, והם מתעצבנים שאני אומר שבלטינית יש שלוש מינים.

בכל אופן, יש בעיה גדולה מאוד עם "הגיה נכונה" של הלטינית, כי כבר אין לנו דוברים חיים, ולכן כל נושא ההגיה קצת נתון לויכוח. מה שברור לחלוטין ש-c ו-g לא התרככו לפני i ו-e (ולכן Cicero הוא "קיקרו" ולא "ציצרו", "צ'יצ'רו" או "סיסרו"). גם לגבי זהות של יוליוס קָיְסר (ולא ג'וליוס סיזר או כל וריאציה אחרת) אין עוררין.

הויכוח היותר קשה הוא על נקודת קטנות יותר, כמו הטעמה ונושאים כאלה, ואני מניח שלך זה לא יפריע במיוחד, אבל זה לא הכל. גם שחזורים "יחסית" מדויקים של הלטינית (כמו זה שמתשמשים בו בחוג ללימודים קלאסיים באוניברסיטה העברית למשל), הם קצת מוגבלים. כמעט אף אחד אצלנו לא טורח לגלגל את ה-r, להגות את ה-v בתור w או להקפיד על התנועות הארוכות (על מיקום נכון של הטעם כן מנסים להקפיד). יש גם דברים שאפילו הקלסיקנים הכי קפדנים לא מודעים אליהם, כמו זה ש-m בסוף מילה בלטינית כמעט תמיד סימנה תנועה מאונפפת (כמו בצרפתית) ולא סתם m פשוטה.

אם אתה רוצה להקפיד, אז הנה שיעור אחד בסדרה של פודקסטים שמנסה ללמד לטינית תוך כדי הקפדה על ההגיה:
http://latinum.mypodcast.com/2007/02/Bennett_On_Latin_Pronunciation_the_evidence-31085.html

Some of your readers might be interested in picking up a bit of colloquial conversational Latin.
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