I am really glad to have found this site. I've recently become inspired to finally get to grips with Latin and have set out to learn independently. It's great to share these things with like minded people.
I was lucky enough to be taught Latin between the ages of 10/11 and 16, but was unfortunately too ignorant to avail myself of the oppportunity at the time. I flunked my formal exam at 16 after deciding that it would do me no good in the real world (I then end up working with the law, so how wrong was I?
) However having joined a friend's online Gladiator game, visited the town of Calleva (which is just down the road from where I live) where the walls are still intact and the amphitheatre recently excavated and working just round the corner from the British Museum with its extensive collection of Roman antiquities, I decided that now was the right time to pick it up again and make a go of it this time. I hope that it will keep the brain ticking over.Bizzarely, the text that I am learning from was the forerunner of the one I used all those years ago...
Have any of you come across the British crime writer Lindsay Davis and her informer Marcus Didius Falco? If not you have a treat in store. I can highly recommend the books which combine humour with a real flavour of living in the late 1st Century AD.
I really enjoy her blend of humour and historical fiction. I started reading her to give me a means by which to a) learn about Rome and b) read something other than all my course texts.