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Jokes You Only Get If You’ve Studied Latin Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Mar 31, 2015
In honor of tomorrow being April Fool’s Day, (Last year I wrote a very popular post on April Fools if you are interested), I wanted to impart some jokes and humor for those Latin lovers, Latin users, and Latinists! #1. Underestimating Latin’s Difficulty Many people think when you say you study Latin that it is…
Learning Latin Basics: Lesson II Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Dec 10, 2014
Salvete Omnes, We have much to cover today! We are going to review the 1st and 2nd Conjugations and Declensions along with some sentence work. VERBS 1st Conjugation “Amo= I love” 1st s.= amo “ I love, I do love, I am loving” 2nd s.= amas “You love” 3rd s.= amat “He loves, She…
Guide to Impersonal Latin Verbs Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Oct 23, 2014
The following is for your reference use for impersonal verbs. Impersonal verbs usually do not have a subject or nominative instead there is an implied (he, she, it). However they can take nominative in certain sentence structure. Most of these impersonal verbs will take either an accusative, dative, genitive, or rarely an ablative. followed by the…
Awesome Resources for Learning Latin Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Jun 5, 2014
People often question the relevancy of Latin due to the fact that it is thought to be a dead language ( I have an entire argument against that here). While this is technically true, Latin offers to people a chance to enhance their current language (if that language is a Romance Language [i.e. French, Italian…
Gerunds vs. Gerundives Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Feb 20, 2014
Have you long struggled with knowing the exact forms and uses of the Latin Gerund or Gerundive? Well, this post was created in order to aid you in all your questions about forms, translations, and grammatical uses. HELPFUL PRINTOUTS If you are studying Latin, I would recommend the following site for your references (the image…
You Want to Learn Latin: Keep Calm and Read On! Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Feb 5, 2014
So you want to learn Latin? Or, are you already learning Latin? So, let’s look at a sentence: Sed debebatur, ut opinor, fatis tantae origo urbis maximique secundum deorum opes imperii principium. (Livy 1.4) So is your initial reaction is to panic, run for hills, and give up? Well, Don’t! Five Tips that will save you…
The Unofficial Ancient Roman Monster Survival Guide Posted by Brittany Britanniae on Oct 22, 2013
Welcome to the Unofficial Ancient Roman Monster Guide! While, everyone knows about centaurs, harpies, cyclopes, mermaids, sirens, the chimera, hydra, giants, and et cetera; this guide’s goal is expose the truth of the monsters that hide under our very noses! The following monsters are very dangerous and should NOT be approached under any circumstance. Most…