Latin via Ovid

[languageleon]

Hello all, first post here, probably not the most productive.

I own the entire Wheelock's series (though I haven't really practiced, simply because each chapter takes about 4 hours for me to do completely in terms of taking notes, listening to audio, doing the workbook, redoing the workbook, reading the passages, etc etc etc). I do like the way it's set up but I am looking for something a lot faster paced and more based on mythology.

I hear this is a good series to work with. Does anyone have reviews of this series, whether they be good or bad?

Thanks.

[Kyneto Valesio]

Hi and welcome

I don't particularly care for latin via ovid although my review based on going through only the first 1/3 or so of the book. It was about at that point in the text that the editors stopped indicated "vowel quantity" in the readings. Oh, they would give you the quantities the first time a word was learned, but after that you are just supposed to know it so even a fast skim through of the book becomes problematic if you are intent on pronouncing well. Well any way, this feature of that book ticked me off and I never finished getting through it.

There are many persons here who will strongly recommend the Lingua Latina, and Roma Eterna by Hans Orberg. I am one of them. I am currently reviewing sections of both books. The Orberg approach uses only latin, symbols and small pictures for the explanations. The two books represent a complete course in latin.

Another series I like is the Oxford Latin Course which presents the basics over the course of three books. What's cool about the Oxford Latin course is that you learn a whole lot about the poet Horace and his friends and the general social situation during the Augustian period. The thing reads almost like a novel. Very entertaining cartoons as well illustrating grammar.

If you are pressed for time, check out the Latinum Podcast. Just google it. Most of your study time will be like when you are going somewhere and you will just be listening to one of the podcast/lesssons. Learn in your car.

Whatever methods you select, latin, unless you are far more brilliant than me, will take a real commitment of time. But if you love it, then it is not a drag but more like an enjoyable hobby. As for methods in general methods, the best me judicante are the living language methods.

The recorded materials that go with the Ovid via Latin course are far too expensive - over $200 so I never bought them. However, if you have the bucks and since you dig mythology, it might be worth a try ; but not without the accompanying audio materials
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[adrianus]

Ante scriptum.
These advertisements were deleted by the moderator. Without the brand & links, they aren't objectionable, I suggest. I reproduce them without the links, to make the subsequent posts understandable. Is that OK?
Hae laudationes à moderatore deletae sunt. Sine notâ nexibusque non recusandae sunt, decerto. Sine nexibus eas resemino, ut epistulae sequentes intellegantur. Licetne?

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by fghi608 on Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:55 pm
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Dear niggs3721, please send me the top 15 from your most expensive handbags range and charge them to Textkit's Latin forum. Christmas is only eight months away, so please hurry, I beg you.
Amabò te, niggs3721 care, quindecim summas è collectione pretiosissimarum perularum mihi mittas et expensum in rationem Textkit latini fori referas. Nunc est solùm nonus mensis ante diem Christi natalem, ideò festines, te imploro.

Salve fghi608
Vital that I should know before buying! Does your wedding clothing match nigg3721's **** handbags?
Ante emendum, magni momenti mihi est ut hoc sciam! Congruitne perulis è **** de niggs3721 tuus vestitus nuptialis?

[ingrid70]

Ah, care Adriane, vin' emere quindecim vestes maritales cum perulis convenientes? Quid tibi in animo est ?

Ingrid

[adrianus]

Salve ingrid70

Ità est, quindecim vestes nuptiales cum perulis eiusdem coloris quem habent vestes.

I plan for fifteen of us to wear those clothes and, in that disguise, go up to fghi608 and niggs3721 with handbags full of stones. Secrecy is important for success, so please say nothing, speak to no one.

Ut quindecim è nobis eas vestes portemus delineo, et, sic personati, ad fghi608 et niggs3721 appropinquemus, perulis lapidum plenis. Ut vincat, consilium secretum esse necesse est, ità taceas, nemini loquaris.

[ingrid70]

Hmm, fortasse nobis opus est altera manu subuculis "Ralph Lauren" vestita?

Ingrid

[adrianus]

Good thinking, ingrid70! It will be the responsibility of everyone to embroider their name on their "Ralph Lauren" shirts as an aid to identification, should the worst happen. The first team, then, might think to wear nice shirts, too. The operational costs could be getting out of hand.

Sententiam perbonam, ingrid70! Nomen suum in subuculis "Ralph Lauren" vi acu pingere ut signum agnitionis sui in pessimam fortunam oportebit omnes utrius manûs sodales. Ità et prima manus subuculam delicatam portare videat. Impensas operationis nimias fieri potest.

[adrianus]

Post scriptum. I originally thought I could make a joke here (in English) about underpants. I was wrong. Subucula, in addition to meaning a shirt or camisia, as typical today, is more any type of undershirt or vest or smock or nightshirt than a pair of underpants, or curta femoralia (pl), or curta feminalia (pl), or bracae decurtatae, or subligar, or subligacula (pl). However much I strain, subucula isn't subligacula. Please forgive.
Facetia quam priùs feci deliquit. Erravi. Quantumcunque laborem minus nihilo est, subucula enim subligacula non dicere vult. Me excuses.

Ceterum censeo floccinaucinihilipilificationem esse delendam!

[thesaurus]

This just goes to prove that humor has no place in the discussion of Latin, which as a serious and dry subject deserves reference only to outer garments in a manner thus befitting of its canonical austerity.

Quae cum ita sint, ludus ipse patet nullâ viâ decere linguam latinam, disciplinam tam severam pulvereamque, quâ solùm vestes exterae (eius gravitati decorae) referendae sunt.

[adrianus]

Ah! That old parting wish, "May your underwear always be dry but not dusty"!
Io! Istam valedictionem vetam, "Sint semper sicca nunquàm pulverea subligacula tibi"!

[ingrid70]

In that case, we should bash them on the head wearing togas. I haven't seen an advert for togas yet though.

Eo casu togatos pugillari nos decet. Praeconium togarum autem nondum vidi.

[adrianus]

It seems, then, we'll need to mug some ancient romans for their togas. Isn't that always the way,—escalating costs and escalating violence! Afterwards, we'll most likely have to have counselling.

Necesse erit, id mihi videtur, nos romanos antiquos aliquos in viâ adorire ad togas decerpendas. Nonnè sic semper est—et impensae et saevitiae increscunt! Posteà, sinè dubitò, consiliatorem psychologiae petere debebimus.