Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Lingua Latina...

These articles about the nouns and verbs of the totally awesome (and undead) language of Latin are a couple years old, but they detail some pretty good points to help students, so I'll post them:

The Latin Noun
This is a brief tutorial about the Latin Noun which seeks to accommodate those fortunate visitors who would like to experience the beauty of this immortal language. At first sight the "inflection" of Latin nouns may seem a bit "awesome" but I bet you that English nouns are more difficult. What about English plurals! With a little patience when you read and re-read this tutorial you will find that the Latin Noun is easy to understand and encourages you to learn and read more Latin. It will become enjoyable. Lastly, to read and understand Latin, you must think straight - this is an important "maxim" in our life.
Formation of the Perfect Stems: Why are they so unusual?
When Latin students first encounter the perfect tense, the number of principal parts for verbs suddenly doubles. To add to this complication, these new parts appear to be formed at random... or are they? This tutorial is designed to explain why Latin developed these irregular verbal parts and hopefully to attune the reader to how verbs, and even words in general, are formed.
These aren't comprehensive, but they outline some good information!

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