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I am a new member. My name is Diana, I am 63, retired, and a fairly new grandmother. I am just in the beginning stage of learning Latin without formal training. I'm not sure how successful I will be or how much time and effort I will put into it. I have checked out books from the library, and purchased a self-study course. I hope I can persist as it is something I have always wanted to do. I am not really interested in learning Greek at this time; but who knows, as I learn Latin I may also develop an interest in Greek.
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Greetings Diana I too am a new member here, and am, I think, in the same boat as you are. I've retired a few years ago, and am just now really getting serious about learning Latin. I've always had 40 interests, but little to no discipline to actually excel in any of them : ) I'm hoping this board and folks like you will help keep my eyes on the goal : ) Hope to see you in some of the groups here and Happy Studying BillMsShibaInu wrote:I am a new member. My name is Diana, I am 63, retired, and a fairly new grandmother. I am just in the beginning stage of learning Latin without formal training. I'm not sure how successful I will be or how much time and effort I will put into it. I have checked out books from the library, and purchased a self-study course. I hope I can persist as it is something I have always wanted to do. I am not really interested in learning Greek at this time; but who knows, as I learn Latin I may also develop an interest in Greek.
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Welcome!MsShibaInu wrote:I am a new member. My name is Diana, I am 63, retired, and a fairly new grandmother. I am just in the beginning stage of learning Latin without formal training. I'm not sure how successful I will be or how much time and effort I will put into it. I have checked out books from the library, and purchased a self-study course. I hope I can persist as it is something I have always wanted to do. I am not really interested in learning Greek at this time; but who knows, as I learn Latin I may also develop an interest in Greek.
Learning Latin is a great hobby. I have been slowly learning Latin on and off for a number of years.
I didn't do Latin at school. It irritated me that I would see Latin words and phrases in books or on buildings and could only at best half understand them. So I began to study Latin alone as an adult.
At present I am studying Oerberg's Lingua Latina Familia Romana which is an excellent course, although all in Latin. Before that I worked through about two thirds of D'Ooges Latin for Beginners which is good for absolute beginners and available online as a PDF or as web pages.
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Hi
I have just discovered this site, and I am really excited. I've wanted to learn Latin for years.
I have just discovered this site, and I am really excited. I've wanted to learn Latin for years.
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Welcome on board, hopefully you'll find what you need here, the site seems to be great!!! I'm relatively new here myself, only a couple of days. And I think I already found a couple places to do my studies. Glad the place is laid out to what at least to me seems intuitive. Happy Studies Billbalmaingirl wrote:Hi
I have just discovered this site, and I am really excited. I've wanted to learn Latin for years.