Schola Review

Schola

Evan Millner has created Schola, a group on the Ning social networking site devoted to Latin conversation. I like his rules:

1. NOS ARTEM SCRIBENDI EDISCIMUS.
2. ERRANDUM EST NOBIS.
3. SCRIBENDUM EST NOBIS LATINE.
4. NEMO LITTERAS EMENDAT. (Don’t correct anyone!) NEFAS EST.

Omnia epistolia non Latina delebuntur.

I commend the idea of just letting poeple try their hand at latin–errors be damned. Too often I see topics where you can’t write a Latin sentence without someone chiming in about an obscure point of grammar or whether or not censeo, puto, cogito or reor is the “right” verb (hey, I’ve written a few myself, so I’m not pointing any fingers). Better to dive in and make mistakes than never try at all.

Added to the blogroll…

SCHOLA

Cogito nos artem scribendi ediscimus. Utcunque res est, errandum est nobis. Trepidus summus. Sed, scribendum est nobis Latine, in loco jucundus, loco qua nemo litteras emendat. promulgo http://schola.ning.com/

SCHOLA
Schola is a new 'safe' place to write in Latin. Only Latin is allowed,
no other language may be written.

You'll only get comments about your grammar on Schola from other users
if you ask for them. Commenting on other users' use of Latin is not
allowed, unless you're invited by them to comment.

Producing a language is an important part of learning it, and
correcting produced language by a person who is still coming to grips
with it is counter productive if it stops them from producing it at
all. Despite all the people learning Latin, there is little actual
use of the language online in the Fora devoted to Latin, with only a
handful of people regularly writing anything in Latin at all.
Schola is intended to help address this problem, by providing a more
relaxed environment, where people whose Latin is very good can mix
with tyros, and get on with the job of developing their Latin skills
through actual usage of the language.
Most errors resolve themselves over time as study advances, and the
language is used.
Evan.

SCHOLA

You can find out about spoken Latin by listening to the Latinum podcast.

The Latinum Podcast is free, with a free textbook pdf, lessons, and readings, using

the Restored Classical Pronunciation of Latin.
http://latinum.mypodcast.com

Imaginum Vocabularium - Pictures and Latin words - using both photographs and old

woodcuts.
http://imaginumvocabulariumlatinum.blogspot.com/

Schola - a new social site where only Latin is used (It only started on 31 January

'08).
http://schola.ning.com/

These three sites should be enough to help you get on with learning to read, write and

talk Latin.

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

OLS Latin Study Group

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.
>
> http://latinum.mypodcast.com/
>
> 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
>
>
>

Re: [newroman] Before I Begin

Salve

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

Vale.

라틴어 팟캐스트 Latin language

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관련키워드: 라틴어 팟캐스트 Latin language
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