Vexx wrote:Hi,
I'm going to be going through a few different sources to learn Latin, but since my focus is to read Latin, what is your opinion on memorising a most occurring frequency list?
By this i mean http://users.erols.com/whitaker/freqrec.htm which has the top ~1500 used Latin words that make up about 82% of all Literature they used to make this list.
It seems possible for me to learn around 15 a day and finish the entire list in just over 3 months.
If i did this, along side my other sources like 'So you really want to learn Latin' and 'Lingua Latina', will i be able to read most Latin text very well?
Is this possible to do? Will i reach a high level of reading quite quickly?
What are your thoughts!
Thanks
Vexx
lauragibbs wrote:Every student learns differently, so the trick is to find something you enjoy using - if you are enjoying it, you will spend time on it, and the more time you can spend, the faster you will progress. Spending a little time every day is preferable to just a couple of times a week. So whatever combination of book(s) and materials that you can use that will keep you motivated to work on Latin every day will be best for you. There is no just one method that is objectively the best - which is why it is so sad for teachers in the Latin classroom: you have the luxury of choosing whatever works for you!
Vexx wrote:lauragibbs wrote:Every student learns differently, so the trick is to find something you enjoy using - if you are enjoying it, you will spend time on it, and the more time you can spend, the faster you will progress. Spending a little time every day is preferable to just a couple of times a week. So whatever combination of book(s) and materials that you can use that will keep you motivated to work on Latin every day will be best for you. There is no just one method that is objectively the best - which is why it is so sad for teachers in the Latin classroom: you have the luxury of choosing whatever works for you!
Awesome, thanks for the replies!
Goal: I want to try and finish LL pars I and II (at least half of II), 2/3 of the So You Think You Can Learn Latin course (first two books) and memorise close to the ~1500 words in three months!
Hopefully I can achieve this, it's basically 2 pages of the course/day, probably will finish it quicker though, and doing 5-6 pages of LL per day getting half way through the second book. I will be memorising 20-50 words per day too, so it will maybe make things go a bit quicker over time!
I'm starting this in ages :\ But sounds like it will work, i'm glad i came across the word memorising idea then.
Learning Italian alongside, will this may things easier?
Vexx wrote:^ Thanks.
Another question:
Is it more effective to learn all 1500 words over time through a word list and a program like Anki, or is it better to use this time to go through Latin literature and look up, write down and memorise every word that is unknown? So you end up knowing how to read one work of literature perfectly, before moving on to the next. This definitely seems like a more interesting way to learn, but perhaps less efficient?
I would of course do this after finishing a grammar course & going through LL.
Vexx wrote:^ furry- what sort of sentences are they? are they all completely different from each other or are they sharing is similarities "The ball is red", "The ball is blue" "The cat is blue" ?
I can imagine it's far more difficult to memorise sentences
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