Posted on 12/05/2004 7:12:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
From Transparent Languages "31 Languages of the World" CD Latin Grammar help file:
Thank God!
They did away with Latin the year I entered high school. It should be on ALL high school curricula, as the study of it can do nothing but increase knowledge and understanding of our own English language and its vocabulary.
Regards,
One time, when I was in the third grade, our class had misbehaved at recess.
As punishment, the teacher assigned us the following:
Write the numbers 1-1000.
In Roman numerals.
If I recall correctly, our class NEVER misbehaved (as a class) again.
I've told this story to my own third grader, who is astonished at the swiftness and severity of the punishments that were meted out to us. I told him to remember what I'd said, because I wouldn't have any problem giving him the same exact assignment should HE misbehave at school.
Of course....I'd actually have to teach him the Roman numerals first, 'cause they don't teach THAT anymore, either.
Regards,
I always tell my students, if you desire to improve your English, learn to translate from the Latin. A student remarked to me this year, "This really is the way to learn grammar! I've learned so much."
Wheelock's Latin is popular, but if you want something with an interesting Catholic twist, try Henle's First Year Latin published by Loyola Press. A used copy should be out there if it is out of print.
Virgil, Eclogue 1, vv. 125 mp3 audio link M. Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi silvestrem tenui Musam meditaris avena; nos patriae fines et dulcia linquimus arva, nos patriam fugimus; tu, Tityre, lentus in umbra formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas. T. O Meliboee, deus nobis haec otia fecit. Namque erit ille mihi semper deus: illius aram saepe tener nostris ab ovilibus imbuet agnus. Ille meas errare boves, ut cernis, et ipsum ludere quae vellem calamo permisit agresti. M. Non equidem invideo, miror magis: undique totis usque adeo turbatur agris. En ipse capellas protinus aeger ago; hanc etiam vix, Tityre, duco. Hic inter densas corylos modo namque gemellos, spem gregis, a!, silice in nuda conixa reliquit. Saepe malum hoc nobis, si mens non laeva fuisset, de caelo tactas memini praedicere quercus. Sed tamen iste deus qui sit, da, Tityre, nobis. T. Urbem quam dicunt Romam, Meliboee, putavi stultus ego huic nostrae similem, quo saepe solemus pastores ovium teneros depellere fetus. Sic canibus catulos similes, sic matribus haedos noram, sic parvis componere magna solebam. Verum haec tantum alias inter caput extulit urbes quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi. Catullus 3 mp3 audio link Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque, et quantum est hominum venustiorum! Passer mortuus est meae puellae, passer, deliciae meae puellae, quem plus illa oculis suis amabat. Nam mellitus erat, suamque norat ipsam tam bene quam puella matrem, nec sese a gremio illius movebat, sed circumsiliens modo huc modo illuc ad solam dominam usque pipiabat. qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum illud, unde negant redire quemquam. At vobis male sit, malae tenebrae Orci, quae omnia bella devoratis! Nam bellum mihi passerem abstulistis. O factum male, o miselle passer! tua nunc opera meae puellae flendo turgiduli rubent ocelli!
Latina est pro avibus
Gosh, I feel so trendy. I'm a Jesuit high school graduate (inter alia) who was enough of a geek to say the following to the Pope during a visit to Rome last year (my wife and I got a papal blessing at the Vatican):
"Ora pro nobis peccatoribus, Pater Sanctissimus."
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