You're not allowed to post in this thread if you can't read either latin and/or greek at a reasonably advanced level

Thanks

Halfway through LLPSI FR
I'm also getting some vocab with Comenius' Vestibulum.

Greek scares the shit out of me though.
I studied it in highschool for 2 months and I got a 1.6 at my first test (in Italy the lowest mark is 4, giving a 3 is symbolic, giving a 1.6 means being TOO fair)

I've heared that the latin classes in shool suck in italy, is that true?

Also remember to use ecclesiastical pronunciation, which has been around for nearly 1000 years, whereas modern approximations are just invented by lousy acedemics. I cringe hard every time I hear the V pronounced as a W.

Is Latin even remotely comprehensible to an Italian without formal study, or is it similar to how old English is to modern English?

>choosing ecclesiastical over classical latin

man of culture here unironically

>modern approximations are just invented by lousy acedemics
They are based on text found describing the pronounciation of it, how is that such a bad source?

you don't know what you're talking about if you think that restored Classical pronunciation is an "approximation." Now, Greek is another matter, but there are many good reasons to try to capture a pre-Koine pronunciation there also, even though our knowledge is murkier. Begone, tradfag

yeah but ecclesiastical latin never had any native speakers so it feels more elite and badass

Ah yes. That's what it always comes down to with you people: LARPing. You don't deserve good books

i even read classic antiquity latin books with an ecclesiastical pronunciation

does that bother you?

just did

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It doesn't bother me, you're just doing yourself a disservice by reading the contemptible, dessicated Vergil of a twelfth century prelate for whom hexameters were an arbitrary rule that his tutor had beaten into him, rather than the living Vergil that the people to whom he was most important, and for whom he wrote, read and heard.

For those of you who have learned or are learning Latin, what was the initial hump for you? What pierced the soul of you while learning Latin?

I fear no language myself: I can bring any Romance language within reading comprehension in a couple of months. I plan on starting on Latin after I finish my French. But what is the hardest part of Latin, specifically? Again, I have no fear of it, and I will learn it swiftly.

It's not hard to learn both, very similar.

the only dead tongue i had in my mouth was your grandma's one when i profaned her tomb

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Oh, this is a blessing to my eyes. A true classicist: I could tell because you used "whom" correctly: Latin rules must have made you so perspicacious of cases that you are now cross-applying a stringent form onto your mother tongue.

cope

I know that's a long cloak worn by ecclesiastical prelates. Why do you bring it up? I don't own a cope, nor have I bought one. Do you need a cope to wrap around you?

Shithead.

why are you getting angry

Because I'm a depraved and debauched man who has nothing for which to live?

understandable

Actually made me giggle.

I'm the guy who said "whom" and y'all both need to calm down

Apologies, whom-user: you are the one for whom I got carried away. You happen to be the one whom I have been seeking for many, many...well, I won't gush over you. I will learn Latin to beat you. And then? Then, we will see whom the people of this thread glorify next.

Based

How much maintenencs does one have to do, in order for ones latin not to get rusty?

What is the experimental literature of the Latin world?

A paragraph, or 20 lines, eaxh day should more than do the trick.