Latin-online-art - 6/1/99 "Learning Latin On-Line" by Gunnora Hallakarva. Resources on the World-Wide-Web useful in learning Latin. NOTE: See also the files: Latin-msg, literacy-msg, languages-msg, universities-msg. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This article was submitted to me by the author for inclusion in this set of files, called StefanÕs Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://lg_photo.home.texas.net/florilegium/index.html Copyright to the contents of this file remains with the author. While the author will likely give permission for this work to be reprinted in SCA type publications, please check with the author first or check for any permissions granted at the end of this file. Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: Stefan li Rous stefan@texas.net RSVE60@risc.sps.mot.com ************************************************************************ Learning Latin On-Line by Gunnora Hallakarva There are a number of resources on the World Wide Web that can help one in learning Latin. I'd tend to state that the serious student should still endeavor to purchase a high-school or college-level Latin textbook, as well as a basic Latin dictionary. These, plus the on-line resources, should allow one to learn the language. Latin, unlike most languages that are learned today, is no longer a spoken language. The forms and structures have been encoded, transmitted and taught for hundreds of years, and the whole process has been refined to the point that Latin is one of the easiest langauges to learn, especially for any person who speaks a modern variant on the Romance Languages (Romanian, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and even English, which has a lot of words via medieval French). One of the benefits to English-speakers is that even a single year of Latin classes will build vocabulary. Studies have shown repeatedly that students who have taken a single year of Latin score much higher on the linguistic section of any standardized tests, such as the PSAT, SAT, or ACT. GENERAL BACKGROUND FOR LATIN: Problems with Using Dictionaries and Latin Vocabulary http://www.middlebury.edu/~harris/LatinBackground/VocabandDictionaries.html Essays Providing a Background for Learning Latin http://www.middlebury.edu/~harris/SubIndex/latinbackg.html On-Line Course-- Introduction to the Ancient World: Rome http://www.utexas.edu/courses/rome/ [Understand the world that produced the language] Why Learn Latin? http://latin.about.com/library/bldunphy.htm?pid=2785&cob=home ON-LINE CLASSES: Links to Correspondence Courses for Latin http://latin.miningco.com/msub5.htm?pid=2785&cob=home LATIN-BASED EMAIL LISTS Turning a very modern technology to the purposes of learning a very old language... Latinchat1 - email list conducted all in basic Latin http://campus.fortunecity.com/athena/300/latinchat-l.html LatinE - email list conducted all in advanced Latin http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~conradus/docs/nyt.html Vergil E-Mail List http://www.virgil.org/mantovano/ The Mining Co's Latin Chattin' - Links to Still More Latin Lists http://latin.miningco.com/msub16.htm?pid=2785&cob=home LANGUAGE PRACTICE: See the email lists above as well. Latin Verb Conjugation "Flashcard" Program (Downloadable) http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/7182/latin.html Baylor University Study Aid for Learning Beginning Latin http://diogenes.baylor.edu/WWWproviders/thorburn/latinqnahypertext.html LATIN TEXTS: Tufts' University Perseus Project -- Latin Texts and English Translations http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/latin_TOC.html [Includes works by Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Hirtius, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Plautus, Servius and Vergil] Latin Lessons and Excercises in Downloadable PDF Format http://www.ea.pvt.k12.pa.us/HTM/Programs/Departments/CLASSICS/FirstSteps/Les sons.htm Wheelock's Latin Grammar by Frederic M. Wheelock (One of the most-used college-level Latin texts, it will tie in closely with a number of on-line Latin lesson plans and excercises) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0064671798/thevikinganswerl/ Workbook for Wheelock's Latin Grammar with Answer Key by Paul D. Comeau http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0064671712/thevikinganswerl/ Teach Yourself Latin by Gavin Betts (Self-Study Book with the Answers in the Back) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0844238112/thevikinganswerl/ Latin: an Intensive Course (A Self-Study Text) by Robert Fleischer http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0520031830/thevikinganswerl/ Latina Pro Populo by Alexander and Nicholas Humez (Learn Latin with Humor) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0316381497/thevikinganswerl/ Latin for Americans, Book I by B.L. Ullman (This is the book I used in high school) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0026409127/thevikinganswerl/ Medieval Latin Sources, Articles and Texts http://latin.miningco.com/msub21.htm?pid=2785&cob=home Bennet's New Latin Grammar by Charles E. Bennett http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0062720171/thevikinganswerl/ Cambridge Latin Course Unit 1 by Ed Phinney http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0521343798/thevikinganswerl/ Cambridge Latin Course Unit 2 by Ed Phinney http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=052134381X/thevikinganswerl/ Ecce Romani Set, Books 1-2 for Younger Latin Students by David M. Tafe http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0801304393/thevikinganswerl/ Ecce Romani Set, Books 3-4 for Younger Latin Students by Gilbert Lawall http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0801304407/thevikinganswerl/ Jenney's First Year Latin by Charles Jenney (A classic for 40 years) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=020508723X/thevikinganswerl/ Jenney's Third Year Latin by Charles Jenney (A classic for 40 years) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0205079563/thevikinganswerl/ Graphic Latin Grammar Reference Cards (Order Set of Four) http://www.bolchazy.com/cat/graphic.html Learn Latin (Order the Book) http://www.commonreader.com/0/0453.html [A teach-yourself Latin text.] LATIN TRANSLATIONS: Tufts' University Perseus Project -- Latin Texts and English Translations http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Texts/latin_TOC.html [Includes works by Caesar, Catullus, Cicero, Hirtius, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Plautus, Servius and Vergil] University of Oregon's Text of Vergil's Aeneid http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joelja/aeneid.html LATIN DICTIONARIES AND PARSERS: Tufts' University Perseus Project -- English to Latin Word-Search Tool http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/enggreek?lang=Latin&type=exact&corpus=R oman&author=*Roman Digital Latin Lexicon - 15,000 Words from Cassell's Latin Dictionary http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~barrette/lexicon.html The Hard Little Words: Prepositions, Adverbs, Conjunctions (With Some Definitions of Medieval Usage) http://www.georgetown.edu/irvinemj/classics203/resources/latin.lex Latin Dictionary Search Tool http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.pl [Input the Latin word to get back an English equivalent. Based on about 17000 and their various endings. Especially useful as it will find words no matter what their ending, unlike a standard dictionary where you have to know the nominative form for nouns and the 1st person sigular form for verbs.] Notre Dame Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid Search Tool http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm [Latin to English, separate entry fields for word stem and ending] A Latin Dictionary for the Works of Saxo Grammaticus http://www.rostra.dk/latin/saxo.html [Saxo wrote "Gesta Danorum" an early history of the Danes including quite a bit of Viking myth and legend. The Latin here will all be medieval Latin, not classical Roman Latin.] Latin Grammar and Vocabulary Help for use with Wheelock's Latin Text http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/gr-helps.html The Humanists Latin Dictionary by William Harris, PhD http://www.centaursystems.com/x_hld.html [A downloadable Latin translation program demo. Can be quite useful to the Latin student.] LATIN GRAMMAR: Grammar Aid - What Do All Those Grammatical Terms Mean, Anyway? http://georgetown.edu/irvinemj/classics203/resources/latgramm.aid [If you don't know nominative from numerical, preposition from predicate, this is a guide showing English examples of these constructions to make learning Latin grammar easier.] Latin Grammar (Ohio Stat University) http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~econrad/lang/latin.html Allen and Greenough Latin Grammar (Tufts University) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=ag+gram.+toc The Intelligent Person's Guide to Latin Grammar http://www.middlebury.edu/~harris/Classics/LatinGrammarI.html Situs Grammaticus - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Latin Endings But Were Afraid to Ask http://latin.miningco.com/library/blending.htm?pid=2785&cob=home Latin Grammar FAQ http://latin.miningco.com/library/blending.htm?pid=2785&cob=home Notre Dame Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid Search Tool http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm [Latin to English, separate entry fields for word stem and ending] Latin Grammar and Vocabulary Help for use with Wheelock's Latin Text http://www.slu.edu/colleges/AS/languages/gr-helps.html Baylor University Study Aid for Learning Beginning Latin http://diogenes.baylor.edu/WWWproviders/thorburn/latinqnahypertext.html Ludus Antiquae Romae http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9183/ Mnemonic Devices for the Latin Classroom http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Anthology/Pav/Classics/Mnemonics.html [Ways to remember all those difficult grammar rules!] OTHER LINKS: Links to Vergil and Aeneid Topics http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~dcramer/Latin312K2.html Mining Co's Latin Links http://latin.miningco.com/ Kalendarium Romanum http://www.clubs.psu.edu/aegsa/rome/romec.html [Determining dates by the Roman calendar] Latin Electronic Thesaurus Project http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/devito/e-TLL/index.html Roots of English Etymological Dictionary http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/showcase/roots.html [Learn Latin roots for common English words.] Assorted Mottoes In Latin http://www.geocities.com/~stilicho/mottoes2.html More Links to Latin Phrases, Quotes, Proverbs, and Mottoes http://latin.miningco.com/msub24.htm?pid=2785&cob=home This should serve as an excellent starting point for those wishing to learn Latin themselves. Gunnora Hallakarva Baroness to the Court of Ansteorra ------ Copyright 1999 by Gunnora Hallakarva, 10408-A Little Pebble Drive, Austin, TX 78758. . Permission granted for republication in SCA-related publications, provided author is credited and receives a copy. Edited by Mark S. Harris Latin-online-art 6