Whenever we hear something confusing, we tend to call it “Latin and Greek”! This shows that we have already accepted Latin to be a difficult language and if we really want to know how to learn Latin, we have to make very sincere efforts. But there is a certain aura of distinction attached to Latin l ...
That’s the word 13-year-old Rahil Patel spelled in his third and last round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the Super Bowl of competitive spelling held in Washington, D.C. “I take Latin, so I’m familiar with the roots: villa means home,” Rahil said. The precocious eighth-grader calls Richlands ...
For the best defines Latin flavor I had always claimed garlic carried the weight of Latin cooking, and that might be true for our marinades (adobos). But there is hardly a Latin cooking sauce (sofrito) that does not call for bulb onions, leeks, chives, scallions or shallots. The sizzle of onions hit ...
There are so many websites out there, and yet not too many of them focus specifically on Latin and teaching Latin. I think that Latin teachers are often expected to be as dusty as some of the texts we teach, living somewhere in the 1st century instead of the 21st. In reality there are some great on- ...
스피노자의 에티카 원본을 읽어 보고 싶은 마음에 쓸만한 라틴어 사전을 찾다가 아주 맘에 드는 것을 구할 수 있었다. http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/words.exe에서 테스트해보고 맘에 들면 데스크탑 프로그램을 다운받아 설치하면 될 것이다. 물론 무료다. words 프로그램은 여타 온라인 라틴어 사전들과 달리 활용형을 잘 처리해 준다. 즉슨, 라틴어 문법을 전혀 모르는 사람도 라틴어 문장들을 뜯어 읽을 수 있다는 뜻이 되겠다. 또, words 프로그램의 소스도 공개해 놓았다고 한다. Ada로 짜여졌다 ...
I hate latin!! Really!! I remember myself back to the University trying to learn by heart “Gaudeamus Igitur, Yuvenes dum Sumus” and so on….hate it ! I still hate the teacher that was making us – future translators and teachers of English and German to learn and to [...]
1682 CALEPINUS Dictionarium septem linguarum RARE FOLIO Calepino, Ambrogio Dictionarium septem linguarum . etc. Venetiis, Ioannis Baptistae Brigna, 1682. FOLIO. 12.2 x 8.5 inches. 4 leav., 946 pp., 1 blank leaf, 68 pp., 160 pp. Large wdct title vignettes, wdct ornaments and initials Contemporary vel ...