Language of the Catholic Church and Western Civilization
I found Gwynne's Latin a delightful read. I have a Victorian-era mindset and tastes, and I will always be a huge fan of the Grammar-Translation pedagogy (called 'Drill-and-Kill' by non-fans) that I started my Via Latína with. This book is a direct and concise explanation of the most important rules of Latin, with stern and... Continue Reading →
DE MAGISTRO QUI LEGIT IN AERE ET IN AQUA I just found this passage the other day in Charles H. Beeson’s A Primer of Medieval Latin, p.47-48 (in the Public Domain, c. 1925). Beeson excerpted it from the sermons of James of Vitry, cardinal bishop of Tusculum (died 1240). (It is just the kind of... Continue Reading →
As promised on the post for the original project: I have now collected the last year's-worth of TLM Gospels that I had been coloring by case throughout the year, and have now arranged them, starting naturally with the Sundays of Advent, in chronological order--and turned them into a PDF! Note: This first version of this... Continue Reading →
Every Christian needs to have this one memorized! Color-coded version to help with your translation here.
There is so much going on grammatically here--to say nothing of the Salvation History, narrative drama, or theology of course!
Great vintage book provides Ecclesiastical Latin excerpts and illuminating footnotes, and I am adding case colors to further aid comprehension. This will be great!
If you've had about two years of Latin, either with a Classical focus or of course especially with an Ecclesiastical Latin focus, you will enjoy working your way through these actual, genuine Medieval texts in Latin linked below. Hugh of Fouilloy's 'Aviarum/De Avibus' The Medieval Book of Birds: Hugh of Fouilloy's 'Aviarum' Edition, Translation, and... Continue Reading →
For the brave souls in Intermediate and Advanced Latin, may I present a checklist of things to keep in mind when rendering your thoughts into Latin...
All those busy Latin nouns out there, doing their jobs, using their endings, are often hard to keep track of all at once. To help show the various jobs nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are doing in each phrase, clause, and sentence, I assign a color to each case to visually reinforce what the specific case endings are telling us.
It's really a huge project, learning Latin. It, uh...takes awhile. At long last, here is Part 2 of the post about common causes of feeling unmotivated in the middle of your Latin studies.
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