Can anyone here actually read Latin?

Can anyone here actually read Latin?

I can read it at an intermediate level. Working on getting my vocabulary up.

im fairly sure a lot of eurofags can

No one here can even read English.

I am currently teaching myself. Its a very very slow process but ever do I push forward

Yes. 5 years of secondary school Latin

What method are you using

im going to learn it once im done with Greek in 2 years.

Yes. And Greek, and German and Spanish. But I’m still a worthless faggot.

I have an old latin grammar book
So what I do is:
> read through the book
> pick a great work such as Aeneid
> Read both English and Latin versions alongside one another until I get the hang of it.
> lots of just miscallanious youtube videos on how to speak latin
> repeat

ita

>neque "sic" neque "possum"
cinaede

Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

"Te" melius scripsisti, pathice anonyme. Reveni meliore Latinitate.

He () did call you a faggot, though.

I took six years of Latin and am still too much of a brainlet to process all of it in my mind. I did even worse with Greek. While I have a love for both, I feel dejected by the fact that I will never achieve the fluency of people I know who are smarter than me.

On a side note, I love Latin poetry and literature.

>tfw even gutter whores were fluent in Latin a couple thousand years ago

>I took six years of Latin and am still too much of a brainlet to process all of it in my mind. I did even worse with Greek. While I have a love for both, I feel dejected by the fact that I will never achieve the fluency of people I know who are smarter than me.
I feel you so fucking hard right now famalam.

Why should I truly learn Latin?

IDK but i now own a copy of the vulgate so i have to learn it.

Pic related and to read beautiful Latin poetry

>took Latin at secondary school
>all I remember is "Caecilius est in horto"

Did you not find it interesting, why didn't you keep up with it?

having years of classroom learning helps, but its not enough on its own. you really have to grind language skills outside of class to git gud

This. Practice and memorization are the two best ways to improve one's Latin.

Big, if true.

I'm thinking of learning Latin after I get fluent in french (probably in the next couple of months), mainly so I can get access to the Church's works and all of the culture of ancient times. But I'm also thinking of learning japanese because I'm a big admirer of mangas and japanese culture in general.

Which one should I learn, Veeky Forums?

latin
japanese is a meme unless youre actually interested in their real literary works and poetry

>japanese is a meme unless youre actually interested in their real literary works and poetry
But I am, I really like Shusaku Endo, Junichiro Tanizaki, Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata and Natsume Soseki and I also have a lot of interest in japanese cinema like Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Masaki Kobayashi and Yasujiro Ozu.

But the difference is that all the greatest japanese works have great translations in english, meanwhile there are countless works in latin that remain untranslated.

What a load of bullshit. No other academic subject or other activity at all, seriously? That author would lose his mind one month into a first year math major course.

>learning latin is somehow better for problem solving and critical thinking than logic/math

lol ok

I can to a medium level, took 4 semesters of latin. Just don't ask me to read Cicero, that's expert shit. The vulgata is quite readable though.

>math
>critical thinking
lol

>>>>basing all your assumptions of math on formulaic shit you had to do in middle school/high school
higher level math requires a fuckload of creative/critical thinking especially when you're doing proofs you fucking nignog

The author of that passage was, I assume, talking about training for young students, who would obviously not be doing hyperautist mathematics

The passage said "training and development of..."
By the time someone's doing high level math they are already trained and developed.

Remember, back in the day the only subjects taught before university were Latin and Greek. It was during this time that tons of breakthroughs were made in science and math.

o, ok

I think the current pedagogic situation is ridiculous. The use of the classical pronunciation in schools has effectively killed Latin education.

I speak two Romance languages fluently and took the obligatory Latin in school, so I can parse it with some effort.

What's wrong with classical pronunciation? It doesn't sound as cool to say wayny weedy weeky?

I learn it because I need something to stop my brain turning to mush working a 9-5 desk job. Reading fiction isn't enough.

learn latin, japanese is gay

I'm taking AP Latin right now, I'd say I'm fairly good at it. We're on Book IV of the Aeneid.

It alienates the student form the language, tying in with the current archeological approach which studies only ancient texts and makes no connection with the post-classical world; it is unnecessarily difficult -- people read Latin perfectly fine for centuries in their own natural pronunciation, while also being able to understand and compose poetry in the ancient meters. Basically it is a pedantic instrument. The clearest way you can tell is that textbooks will insist that students even learn the hidden quantity of vowels, which have no bearing on poetic meter. It is something that should be left for those entering into specialist education.

Also wayny weedy weeky does sound awful.

Iulius Kaiser sounds awesome though

Kee-ker-o

My sweet little chickpea.

wah-gee-nuh

He wanks as high as any in Wome, you know.