Latin

[Chaotic Diplomat]

Latin is a dead language but a very important one. For all you high schoolers about to take the SAT's its gonna suck (i've been there done that). Luckily Latin has many roots and will help you. Wanna learn latin? I'm your man!

[Procyon]

I'd like to learn Latin! Teach me.

[XxKaexX]

Am learning it at the current moment though I suck... Suppose I could help out though if you wanted...

[Procyon]

Yeah. Just start with basics.

[XxKaexX]

Um... Okay... Shall I start with the pronunciation of the letters?

[Procyon]

Certainly.

[Ebo]

I can help teach if you want. I take Latin in school and am exceptionally good with grammar. If you need any help, just ask!
By the way, I use Ecce Romani as my textbook, so our Latin vocabulary may be a bit different.

[XxKaexX]

Hm... Lemme think... Well... V is pronounced like a w (like the w in witch) and the c is a hard sound.

Um... What else...

Ahaha! I just remembered! I can access the school Latin wordlist through this computer!!!!

[Procyon]

Hmm...Well help. All of you. This is what it's about. No point in being shy. :oh

[XxKaexX]

Hm... How should I do the wordlists then?

[Procyon]

Copy and paste? =]

[XxKaexX]

Um... Okay... I'll try...

amicus, -i, m amicable friend
canis, canis, c canine dog

[Chaotic Diplomat]

XxKaexX I will let you teach for i have a hard time locating this thread on my computer. Keep up the good work! Oh tell me what Flavia in agris sub abore scribit et legit. Tell me what that means and you gain Rep! Everyone except XxKaexX at least!

[Ebo]

XxKaexX I will let you teach for i have a hard time locating this thread on my computer. Keep up the good work! Oh tell me what Flavia in agris sub abore scribit et legit. Tell me what that means and you gain Rep! Everyone except XxKaexX at least!
Okay, here's what it means:
Flavia reads and writes in the fields under the tree.
Can I have rep please?:P

[Ebo]

Here's a site that I like to use whenever I'm interested in learning a word:
http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl
(It's an English to Latin Translator)
You may, however, need to speak with us on this thread to learn the principle parts, endings, genders, and other crucial parts of Latin. That site is great for vocab though.

[XxKaexX]

Cool! Although, my teacher would like murder me if that was grammatically incorrect had I translated it. (BTW, I'm not sure whether it is. I'm not concentrating today.)

[Ebo]

So, what do you guys want to learn first? Vocab? The Noun Charts and Noun-Adjective Agreement? The Different Parts of Verbs? Just let me know.:tem

[Gator]

i studies latin for three years..but cant remember shit -_-

"homo hobi lupos"

o_O so FEAR ME XD

[Chaotic Diplomat]

Wow you guys are going no where! Start off teaching a few different vocab words in the first declension and show and teachthe noun charts.(exps. puella and aqua)



I will drop in to help out if thats ok.

[Ebo]

Well duh it's ok! This is your thread!:P
Ok, here's some vocab from chapter one.

Verbs:
habito, are, avi, atus: to live
sedeo, sedere, sedi, sessurus: to sit
lego, are, avi, atus: to read
scribo, are, avi, atus: to write

Nouns:
puella, ae, f.: girl
villa, ae, f.: country house
villa rustica: country house and farm
aestas, aestatis, f.: summer
arbor, arboris, n.: tree

Adjectives:
laetus, a, um: happy
alterus, a, um: a second
vicinus, a, um: neighboring

Adverbs/Interogatives/Other:
Ecce!: Look!
nomine: by name, called
quae: who
etiam: also
ubi: where
quod: because
iam: now
sub: under
et: and
dum: while

There. Basic Latin for ya!
I'll explain parts and such as soon as I finish, this is really ironic, my Latin homework!:tem

[Ebo]

Here's some information on parts!:tem

Verbs:
Verbs consist of 4 parts.
For this example, let's use habito.

Part 1: Main Part: habito
Part 2: Infinitive: habitare
Part 3: Used for Perfect Tense (not important just yet): habitavi
Part 4: Used for Plu-perfect (not important just yet): habitatus

Each of these parts have different meanings:
Habito: I live
Habitare: To live
Habitavi: I have lived
Habitatus: He/she/it lives

Her's the main Verb Chart that can be used to translate any verb:
habito~I live
habitas~You live
habitat~He/she/it lives
habitamus~We live
habitatis~You (plural) live
habitant~They live
This chart is very important in Latin!!!

Verbs are also seperated into conjegation.
Habito is a first conjegation verb.

Nouns will be up soon!

[XxKaexX]

Did you know that in the imperfect tense, 'porto' is:

portabam
portabas
portabat
portabamus
portabatis
portabant

And in the prefect tense, it's:
portavit
portavisti
portavit
portavimus
portavistis
portavirunt

[Chaotic Diplomat]

Don't teach him the words alone! Watch using as bellum,i in a verb tense

Bellum,i-war
1)Bellum 1)Bellimus
2)Bellis 2)Bellitis
3)bellit 3)Bellint

There now explain to them what that means how you do it. Then move on from there.(on to nouns)

[XxKaexX]

You realise that they way we're going right, its all mixed up >.<

[exmorte]

o.0 so im currently taking latin 1 its good fun, oh and you might just want to start out with simply the nominative and acusative cases and work your way up from there? heh ill drop by every now and then to learn and share the learnage that is occurring at school.

[XxKaexX]

Oh... You like learning Latin then... Oh well, each for their own. It's sooooooo hard. I learnt Nom, Acc, Dat last year. We're learning Gen this year. It's soooooo confusing after a while. But I suppose if you know English quite well then learning this will be easy!

[Miharu_Watanabe]

essay ouyai atterlay

^um, my friend said that to me and it's supposed to be latin. lol can anybody tell me what that could mean? I tried the Latin - English dictionaries, but I couldn't find the meaning.
Could you help me out? Please and thank you =)

[mr_shadow]

Ive hear that Latin doesent have any rules for sentance constrution, but that a sentance is understandable as long as you use the right forms of the words.

Must be confusing...

[exmorte]

Yeah the way the words are written indicates the position when you piece it together in your mind. XD it is quite odd, but its fun to me. Oh and latin is written in all caps with no punctuation, heh so its apparently hell to translate origional latin text. Although once you get the hang of things the order isnt bothersome at all.

[The Space Cowboy]

Bellum,i-war
1)Bellum 1)Bellimus
2)Bellis 2)Bellitis
3)bellit 3)Bellint


Not to nitpick but I believe you just tacked verb endings onto a noun.
2nd Declension Neuter Noun Endings. With the noun and verb endings, what I'd suggest is find a list of them, and start chanting them outloud

Singular | Plural
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Nominative: -um | -a
Genitive: -i | -orum
Dative: -o | -is
Accusative: -um | -a
Ablative: -o | -is

Quick and Dirty Noun Translation Guide, works for pretty much any nouns
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Nominative: The object, usually refers to the subject of the sentence

Gen: Indicates possession as in casus belli -the cause of the war

Dative: To/for

Accus: If something is in the accusative case, it's usually a direct object

Ablative: By/with. There are tons of different ablatives but usually you can determine them by the context.
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[krescentwolf]

Ok well, seeing as online translators are only marginal help....

I'm looking for the possessive form for the word freedom, the two words ive picked up from translators are Indolentia (freedom from pain) and Libera (simply... freedom) basically... im looking for a translation of 'My Freedom'

Also, isn't latin divided up into masculine and feminine words? I forget how that works.

[exmorte]

Well for gender it is, first declension is feminine, second declension is masculine & some neuter, and third declension is all of them. Err as for freedom, libertas is the word freedom so my freedom would be, either Ego libertas (ego=my libertas=freedom) or it might be that libertas is in a diff case, so if you just want like directly you can try Meum Libertum (heh i was way off earlier but I checked and thats the literal translation). However the phrase also depends on the context of the sentence so that could be wrong in a sentence.

P.S. Miharu_Watanabe err i think thats pig lattin not latin :P .