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Learning Latin (Latein)

Name: Max 2010-05-30 18:04

I need to learn latin and I think it would be nice to learn it with music.

But I can't find anything. Please help.

I am german so it would be best if it would be in german but english is ok too.

All I found was this: http://www.amazon.de/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=latein+rap&tag=googhydr08-21&index=aps&hvad
id=4418238595&ref=pd_sl_42sg5fkgru_e

But in the review section everybody says that it sucks and that there is just background music and the latin words aren't "rapped" or even sung.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-19 3:37

>>40
* African American

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-19 17:03

* Aethopes in lenguam latinam.  /speak/ est, intelligetis?

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-19 19:16

>>41
>>42
* Negro

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 18:28

Sic, sed /speak/ pro leguam sine Anglicium.  "Foreign Language" WTF?

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 21:02

Learning Latin via music is kind of a pain considering very, very, very, very few people speak it fluently or anywhere near-natively.

I find it pretty straightforwards though and find that simply translating from a primer is not that bad.

Of course, I have 6 years of Spanish experience, smatterings of French and a good enough English vocabulary that it clicks for me faster than most. Since you're starting from German as a base, it's going to be a good bit harder.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-20 22:36

>>45
What's a good course for Latin?
English speaker here

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-21 10:51

>>43, >>41, >>40, et.al.
* PC-Nazi magnet

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-21 13:13

>>47
* Nigger

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-21 16:50

Miro pedifollium in Univisionui.  Hispana est, sed similis leguae latinae.  Et uso Wheelockum.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-21 23:04

>>49
I am learning Spanish, and I have a collection of .txt files that make up wheelock

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-22 8:28

>>43,48
* African American

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-22 13:30

>>51
* Negro

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-22 20:28

>>52
* African American

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 6:41

>> Aethopis, stulto.  Latina est bona!

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 14:14

>>53
* Porch Monkey

>>54
* Latina est boner!

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-23 20:52

>>55
* African American

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 0:21

>>56
* Black Person

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 0:40

>>57
Acceptable.

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 13:23

>>58
* Niggerable

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 18:59

>>59
* African Americanable

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 23:17

>>60
* Colored Personable

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-24 23:19

>>61
* African Americanable

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-25 15:29

>>62
* Slaveable

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-25 15:32

>>63
* African Americanable

Name: Anonymous 2010-06-29 13:07

OP, if you go for the Classical Latin, it's pretty straightforward. No need for music as aid. One phoneme, one letter, for most cases.

And, since you're German, it's far easier to me to explain using German as example instead of soume krasi speld languaje.

BASIC ALPHABET: ABCDEFGHILMNOPQRSTVX

A, E, I, O, V - as German Ach, bErn, Ich, kOrn, Und. Can be long or short. In learning books the longs get a bar (macron) in it (lazy people, like me, use umlaut :D).
There IS a difference in long and short, like in mäla (appel) and mala (bad, feminine).

(NOTE: V, in that time, was the letter for /u/. The U letter is Renaissance's AFAIK.)

AE, AV, OE - as German zEIt, umlAUt, frEUd

B D G H L M N P T - as in German.
C - always as K.
F - this is open for discussion, some argue that it's pronounced with the tooth (like Volk), some argue that it's like Spanish Fuego. Do as you wish.
Q - always with V after it. Pronounce both together like K but with lips rounded like U.
R - like French baRon, or American English "boTTle". It's just a tap.
S - always like See, never like Spiel.
X - it's KS.

FROM GREEK LOANWORDS:
PH - like English Pit, with that puff of air (contrast eng. Pit and sPit). NO, IT'S NOT LIKE F IN CLASSICAL LATIN - only in Vulgar Latin onwards.
TH - like English Tip.
CH - like English Kill.
Y - like Über
Z - TS, like German, or DZ.

ABOUT DOUBLED CONSONANTS - in German and English, they tell that the vowel before is short. In Latin, they tell the CONSONANT IS LONG. Hard to explain, try to take more time to pronounce doubled consonants than single.

With that, you already can pronounce a fair decent Latin.

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