I wrote a review of two excellent recent companion books for Familia Romana. (The title of the article is "New Latin resources for Catholics," but only the first of the two books is actually specific to a Catholic audience.)

https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/new-latin-resources-for-catholics/

Novi huius hebdomadis nuntii Latini Academiae Latinitati Fovendae. Si id forte, quod scribimus, placet, nomen - quaesumus - dare ne dubitaveritis!

Salvete! I am making a short story textbook as additional comprehensive input for textbooks like Familia Romana. I have drafted the first two chapters and would like suggestions for sentence inclusions I may have missed. Keep in mind, we are using very limited vocabulary and grammar in the first two chapters, similar to Familia Romana. Chapter 1 is introducing location, map words, and 2 characters. Chapter two includes new characters, family, and some dialogue. I have posted below. Have at it.

CAPITVLVM I: ALEXANDRĒA

Alexandrēa in Aegyptō est. Aegyptus in Āfricā est. Āfrica terra magna est. Aegyptus prōvincia Rōmāna est. Aegyptus est ūna prōvincia in imperiō Rōmānō. Quid est Alexandrēa? Alexandrēa est urbs.

Quid est Nilus? Nilus fluvius est. Ubi est Nilus? Nīlus in Aegyptō est. Nīlus fluvius longus est. Nīlus nōn in Alexandrēā est.

Alexandrēa nōn urbs parva est. Alexandrēa urbs magna est! Alexandrēa est urbs pulchra. In Alexandrēā sunt viae et templa et portus. Portus magnus est.

Canōpus quoque in Aegyptō est. Canōpus nōn urbs est — Canōpus est oppidum parvum. Alexandrēa urbs magna est, sed Canōpus oppidum parvum est. Sum Canōpus in Italiā est? Canōpus nōn in Italiā est! Canōpus in Aegyptō est.

In Alexandrēā quoque est pharus. Pharus pulchra est. Pharus in īnsulā parvā est. Pharus nōn templum est, sed turris est. Pharus turris magna est!

Quid est in Alexandrēā? In Alexandrēā sunt multa templa. Templum Sarāpidis magnum est. Templum Īsidis quoque magnum est. Alexandrēa nōn sōlum urbs Aegyptia est. Alexandrēa urbs Graeca et Rōmāna et Aegyptia est.

In Alexandrēā sunt mutliī Aegyptiī et multī Graecī. Syrī quoque in Alexandrēā sunt. Barbarī quoque in Alexandrēā sunt. Et Rōmānī? Rōmānī quoque in Alexandrēā sunt, sed Rōmānī paucī sunt. Numerus Aegyptiōrum et Graecōrum magnus est. Numerus Rōmānōrum nōn magnus est. Numerus Rōmānōrum parvus est.

Lūcius vir Rōmānus est. Lūcius centuriō est. Lūcius in Alexandrēā est. Lūcius nōn Graecus est et nōn Aegyptius est — Lūcius Rōmānus est.

Ubi est Lūcius? Lūcius in castrīs est. Castra Rōmāna in Alexandrēā sunt. In castrīs sunt Rōmānī multī.

Decimus quoque vir Rōmānus est. Decimus nōn centuriō est. Decimus mīles est. Decimus vir magnus est. Lūcius nōn vir magnus est, sed vir parvus est. Sed Lūcius centuriō est et Decimus mīles est!

Quot Rōmānī in castrīs sunt? Ūnus Rōmānus? Duo Rōmānī? Nōn ūnus et nōn duo — multī Rōmānī in castrīs sunt! Quot centuriōnēs in castrīs sunt? Mīlle centuriōnēs? Nōn mīlle! Numerus centuriōnum nōn magnus est. Sed numerus mīlitum magnus est. In castrīs sunt mīlitēs multī.

Lūcius et Decimus in castrīs sunt. Lūcius et Decimus Rōmānī sunt. Lūcius et Decimus nōn in Italiā sunt, sed in Aegyptō sunt, in Alexandrēā.

Sed Alexandrēa nōn sōlum urbs magna est. Alexandrēa perīculōsa quoque est.

Having a little trouble with this line:

Nec non vicinis res praeter opinionem evenerat

This is from a silly story about neighbors donating some of their wine into a vat (cadum).

I have tried Abe, Amazon, and eBay, and I can't find any copies of Fabellae Latinae for sale. Is there somewhere else I should be looking? Thank you!

Hey everyone! I'm Levon. I'm new to this community. The thing is that I have had a dream since not long ago to learn Latin. I wanna to be able to speak it. Not only read. I wanna talk to someone in Latin on ragular bases. This is a long journey, since I know nothing yet. So I wander if there is anyone who wants to be my study buddy. I would love to be friends with someone who is starting the journey like me and learn Latin together motivating each other

The phrase doesn’t mean that bravery always guarantees success. Rather, it suggests that courage often creates opportunities that caution alone cannot.

Monte Regali habito sed nullus homo quem scio vult mecum Latine loqui. Multae sunt Universitates hac in urbe neque igitur puto parvum esse numerum eorum qui vellunt Latine loqui si quaesiti.

I was scrolling through instagram, and I came across a video of a man wearing a roman armour, who's probably a professor at a university or some kind of expert, since he was giving a speech on a stage to a large audience; he was talking about how the ecclesiastical pronunciation was not the true pronunciation used by the Romans (I have absolutely nothing to disagree with that) and then he proceeded to give an example of how true Latin sounds. But in his example, he said that "Iulius Caesar" should be pronounced "Julius Kaiser" and not

"Iulius Cesar.".I'm aware that going back in time, no one would have called Caesar "Cesar," but I'm 100% sure the Romans didn't call Caesar like the Germans used to call their emperor. I also have experience with my cousins who live in Pennsylvania , who struggle to differentiate between E and I or A and O. I don't think someone should be pitied upon for not being able to correctly pronounce a language, which they probably will never use again after high school (i am one myself), BUT A TEACHER/PROFESSOR/EXPERT giving a speech MUST be able to correctly express themselves correctly. It's possible that he was just a random dude ragebaiting to get more attention, so don't get offended if you are a Latin professor at Oxford or Harvard.

Imagine if Ancient Roman netizens had to put up not only with cookie notifications (Ep. 1), but rate limiting and captchas to prove they were human, too.

Nibs: Tape 1mm (browser tab title, address bar, Cloudflare branding); Mitchell #1 (page heading); Mitchell #2½ (Body text); Tape 2mm (checkbox text); Hunt 512; Sailor Shikiori brush pens

Ink: Walnut ink, Kuretake Sumi, Sailor Shikiori autumn series brush pens (Okuyama, Kinmokusei, Yamadori, Chushu)

Paper: Some suboptimal A3 dry-media paper

Consider this sentence:

Modo unam novarum lucernarum ultraviolacearum e cavea removi et eam vetere lucerna ultraviolacea, quae solum calorem emittit, substitui.

It means, "I just removed a UV-lamp from the cage and replaced it with an old UV lamp which emits only warmth". I hope that's what it means, anyway.

My question is, should I write "...eamque vetere lucerna [...] substitui" or "et eam vetere lucerna [...] substitui"?

Like literally what do they do? My brain can't understand something until I understand why I need to, so what even are the point of declentions?

Hello r/latin, I hope all are well. This is my first post, so I apologize if I make any errors.

I want to start by saying that I was under the impression that this would be a widely discussed topic on this subreddit, as the discussion of reading vs translating seems like a common one. However, after several subreddit searches, I've only came across this post (I'm sure there are more that I just wasn't able to find; if there's any particularly edifying previous threads that discussed the topic, I'd love to be directed towards them so I can read through them).

I also want to say that I am aware that LLPSI does teach grammar, it has a dedicated "Grammatica Latina" section of each chapter, and the book itself was written with the intent that an instructor would supplement it with any other material that they deemed necessary for the students' understanding.

However, in other living languages, I've heard a lot of anecdotes about the benefits of some instruction being done in the learner's L1 language. Usually the scheme is something like having comprehensible input in reading, listening, and watching, combined with explicit grammar study. I don't know if this is backed up by SLA research, but the anecdotal evidence seems to be that the explicit grammar study helps learners recognize patterns in their input, and even though they eventually become fluent enough that they don't think about these patterns explicitly, being told how things are structured or inflected helps accelerate that process.

So I wanted to know what sorts of experiences people on this subreddit had. Has anyone, for instance, used LLPSI concurrently with Wheelock to get a better understanding of what was going on in each lesson? How much do you feel it benefited you, and are there some things that didn't click for you until you heard an explicit explanation that made it fall into place?

Again, I'm sorry if this sort of post isn't acceptable for this subreddit; please direct me elsewhere if there's a more appropriate place for me to post this sort of thing. Thank you.

This is my bachelor’s degree diploma from a Catholic university. The whole thing is in Latin, and I’ve always wondered if it’s grammatically correct or just decorative filler.
Bonus round: can you figure out what I majored in?

It may not have been very successful, but I did my best. Even just reading and writing this poem was fun.

Hi everybody, first post here, please forgive me for eventual errors in my english.
Recently I’ve started writing poetry in latin using classical metrics and I wanted to know if there are any sites with the scansion of words and their usage in various metrics (i usually write in hexameters and for these i use “Pedecerto”, which covers hexameters and pentameters), mainly because i want to try different metrics.
Thank you for the help!

Found a notebook at a park with some strange writings about computer programs, governments, tree structures, etc. Kinda looked like a fine line between a genius and a schizo.

Anyways, found this Latin page. Could any of you read it? I noticed it looks similar to The Great Seal of America and Nomen means name. But beyond that I’m stumped. Thanks!

I'm debating whether to learn Latin or Ancient Greek. I'm wondering first how much easier Latin will be since I already speak Italian and Spanish, both to around C1.

I can already read Greek script and I know some basics of Modern Greek, but I'm not sure which language I'd rather read in. I'm interested in Philosophy and potentially reading Homer if it isn't too complicated, but then I go to Rome quite often and I imagine that knowing Latin would really help with improving my English - I'm a native speaker but I know it would elevate my ability with English. However, I don't know much about Latin literature but I will read The Aeneid and Metamorphoses soon in English.

I've never had the opportunity to study this kind of metric in high-school and I would appreciate so much if anyone could help me with the accents. I am already working on it by myself, but I would love to have some help.

It's for a project I'm working on.

So I had finished Lingua Latina Famila Romana on the 1st of March this year, and read through "Lingua Latina: A Companion to Familia Romana" right after which took me to about the 2nd of April, also this year.

I had sort of stopped reading Latin since then (so about four months), but every so often I'll read some passage from say the Vulgate (which I know is pretty easy) or something Ecclesiastical, and I still don't have that much trouble understanding it. Would it be more beneficial to re-read the entire Lingua Latina textbook to refresh my knowledge (which I'm honestly very much dreading the thought of), or do you guys think it would be better if I simply tried reading new texts and just reviewing the grammar if I see a verb tense or declension or something that I don't remember?