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iuvenisgaudens
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Post by iuvenisgaudens »

Hello everyone,

I am here mostly to improve my Latin. My educational background is in linguistics, as well as having taken a couple of years of Latin before university. While this has been helpful, it's the sort of background that can tempt you to read a lot of grammar books (to learn rules that you can apply everywhere) instead of actually getting into real Latin texts and picking up the vocabulary.

As a refresher I have been reading D'Ooge, and for authentic texts I am mostly looking at the historical writing of Caesar, Curtius and Nepos.

Also interested in working on Greek, but that will probably be a much slower process. It seems to be a much more complicated language to learn, especially the inflection patterns.

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