Her site.
Posted on 09/25/2004 12:02:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
I used to teach this subject. I use a method that's a little different than the standard, a method aimed at results, not tradition, and no need to learn grammar at the outset, when you've got enough new things to learn. If you learned by the traditional method you may find this radically different; but trust me.
(Excerpt) Read more at cherryh.com ...
pingus-i-o-um-o...or is it pingum-i-o-um-o?...or---no...
;'D
I've always wanted to learn more Latin -- I'm limited to the few phrases I learned in Catholic school -- and this will be a great help. Thanks for the article.
Thanks for the ping. :-)
(and the author recommendation)
Her site.
Dang! I never knew C. J. stood for "Carolyn Janice"!
It's a tradition among female science fiction writers to adopt such ambiguious pen names as "C.L Moore," "Andre Norton", and of course, "James Tiptree". Leigh Brackett's real name, however, was Leigh Brackett.
The course seems fun, but I get tiny squares for some of the letters. Not all, but some.
Huh... maybe a font problem? It's lookin' fine here. If Cherryh is using some kind of font that your home system doesn't have, it'll substitute a different font, and the substitute may not have any character assigned for that ASCII code.
Anyway, here's the direct links (Cherryh changes filename styles):
http://www.cherryh.com/www/latin1.htm
http://www.cherryh.com/www/latin2.htm
http://www.cherryh.com/www/latin3.htm
http://www.cherryh.com/www/latin4.htm
http://www.cherryh.com/www/latin%205.htm
http://www.cherryh.com/www/latin%206.htm
http://www.cherryh.com/www/latin%207.htm
http://www.cherryh.com/www/latin%208.htm
http://www.cherryh.com/www/latin9.htm
http://www.cherryh.com/www/Latin_10.htm
1. An Brutus Caesarem occidit? Is Brutus killing Caesar?
2. An Caesarem Brutus occidit? Is Brutus killing Caesar?
Why isn't the second one, Is Caesar killing Brutus?
Chicks. ;')
It has to do with the suffixes... She's showing that word order isn't always as important as it is in English. Or should I say, order always word as is important English not it is as in.
I'm not surprised. I took Latin in HS for 2 years. The first year was instructive. The second year, after the teacher from the first year died, we had a batty old lady who -- no joke -- was barely north of a nervous breakdown. I don't know if she had had a stroke or just wasn't very bright (not good for a teacher). Anyway, I learned less Latin that second year than in the first 3 days of the previous year. Needless to say, I pretty much took the year off but still made a good grade.
In college, I needed 4 semesters, and a local college offered all 14 hours of a language during a summer "intensive" program. The only two classes offered were Latin and Portuguese. I would have taken Spanish if offered, but decided against Port. and still had to take the class. Turns out the Prof was a little laid back. Smart, and knew the material well, but the class was supposed to run 8-12. He arrived at about 8:10 at the earliest. By about the third week, I started getting there at 8:30 to his greeting of, "good morning __, how's it going", and it wasn't scarcastic. We'd take a break about 9:20 that lasted at least 45 minutes, then knock it off between 11:00 and 11:15 just about every day. It was a 5 day a week class, but he went out of town most Fridays. We met maybe the first 3 weeks full time, and that's it.
The class wasn't easy, but it wasn't hard and there wasn't much of it. I know very little Latin now, but I can't say that's anyone's fault but my own. All in all, college language training sucks. I've since taken a Spanish class and they are all worthless. Instead of learning to speak the language first and then getting into grammer (kinda like we all learned our native language), they try to do it all at once. Pimsleur style tapes with 5 days a week class sessions doing nothing but speaking the language would teach students faster than any other method I'm aware of.
Makes sense, but I'm dense. Even read a few of her books. Her method of teaching Latin is easier.
I still don't get that one. It looks like it should be: Is Caesar killing Brutus? It's actor/actee/action with a question in front of the name Caesarem.
Ah! OK, I got it now. Thanks!
Thanks for the link!
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