A waste of time?

Question:I am going into my Sophomore year of highschool and I took Latin 1 H. I ended up loving it, not finding it extremely challenging, and getting my best final grade in Latin, an A+. I am planning on taking Latin all 4 years of school, and I plan on taking Ancient Greek for the next 3 years as well, in hopes that it will be a challenge. (From what I hear, the other, more standard languages offered at my school are not as difficult as Latin, and I don't want to just take the easy way out, thank you very much) Do you think that taking these languages is a waste of time?

Answers:
A waste of time? If you were purely utilitarian, you'd have taken a course in plumbing, not Latin. Of what use is poetry? or Painting? Arguably, none whatsoever.
Latin and Greek have some of the greatest literature written in the history of civilisation. To be able to connect to that, and to the fountainhead of Western Civilisation, in a visceral way, makes learning Latin, and Greek well worthwhile.
Of course, as you already know, having a good knowledge of Latin means you can pretty much make of sense of any Romance language newspaper, and it is a short hop to learning another Romance language.
Have a look at the latinum podcast - you could use it over the summer to speed up your Latin, and start to teach yourself to speak (yes, speak) latin.
http://latinum.mypodcast.com

Latin podcasts

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Friday, January 25, 2008

Latin podcasts

Here's the long-since promised link to the Latin-language podcasts:

http://latinum.mypodcast.com/

I haven't had an opportunity to scour the website thoroughly, but there seems to be quite a lot of free, Latin-related material available. Enjoy!

Use and abuse!

On Dec 3, 2007 9:23 PM, scionofthewolf wrote:

> I have yet to receive word from the Thule Society, and I am anxious to
> begin learning Latin. Another site suggested this.
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> http://latinum.mypodcast.com/
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> Before I begin, I was wondering if this is a waste of time, or worth
> it. Perhaps someone here has some knowledge of the site in question.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gaius Caedicius Lupus
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Re: [newroman] Before I Begin

Salve

The Latinum Podcast is an excellent website. Use and abuse!

Vale.

라틴어 팟캐스트 Latin language

내용: 해외 팟캐스트: 런던에서 배우는 라틴어 교육 팟캐스트 사이트 썸네일
관련키워드: 라틴어 팟캐스트 Latin language
피드타입: RSS 2.0
피드주소: http://latinum.mypodcast.com/rss.xml
팟캐스트 전용 뷰어로 열기 피드보관함에넣기 홈페이지/블로그에 가져가기 프린트하기 이전화면 상위카테고리

curso de latim 100% em mp3

Escolhida pelo autor da pergunta
aqui tem um curso de latim 100% em mp3 (em inglês):
http://latinum.mypodcast.com/

mesmo q vc não saiba inglês vc pode usar para ouvir a pronuncia do latim. lá vc também encontra trechos de obras clássicas lidas com a pronúncia histórica reconstruída.

IMAGINUM VOCABULARIUM LATINUM

http://imaginumvocabulariumlatinum.blogspot.com/

AS AN AID TO LEARNING THE VOCABULARY NEEDED TO SPEAK LATIN, I HAVE USED WILLIAM'S 1828 VOCABULARY OF LATIN FOR CONVERSATION, AND MADE AN ONLINE VISUAL VOCABULARY.


THERE ARE NO DEFINITIONS IN ENGLISH HERE, ONLY THE LATIN WORD OR PHRASE, ACCOMPANIED BY AN IMAGE.

THE WORDS ARE ORGANISED APPROXIMATELY IN THEMATIC GROUPS. THIS IS AN ONGOING PROJECT, AND WILL TAKE SOME TIME TO COMPLETE.

http://imaginumvocabulariumlatinum.blogspot.com/
IMAGINUM VOCABULARIUM LATINUM

TOPICS IN THE L A T I N U M PODCAST ARCHIVE

TOPICS IN THE L A T I N U M PODCAST ARCHIVE

2007
Week Subject Topic
28 Readings Catullus
27 Readings Horace
26 Adler lessons 30 onward
25 Adler lessons 20 to 30
24 Adler lessons 1 to 20
23 Exercises Learn from the Masters
22 Readings Contemporary Latin
21 Readings Miscellaneous Classical Texts
20 Entertainment Songs, Jokes, Readings
19 Textbook Latinum
18 Textbook- The Child’s First Latin Book
18 Textbook Verbs
17 Textbook - The Eton Latin Grammar - Nouns
16 Vocabulary Coleridge’s Didactic Poems
16 Vocabulary Dictionary Swallowing
15 Textbook Latin Suffixes
15 Textbook My First Latin Lessons