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[Cursus]

χαίρετε/salvete!

I had a couple years of Ancient Greek in college (not enough, unfortunately) and am now halfway through the two-year Latin sequence as well. I look forward to pestering the community with all kinds of questions.

-Cursus

[Calliope]

Salvete vobis omnibus! Χαίρετε, πάντες!

[mitchd]

hi all I'm Mitch and I live in Australia near Sydney. A while ago I started to read fiction/literature again and so... ended up reading blank verse translations by Fagles of The Illiad and The Odyssey with The Aeneid next in line (though I've got a literature text to read for an online course I'm doing so too many books as usual).

Anyway, I've tried and reached a miserably bad level at some other languages so I thought Latin looks familiar and right now I'm into antiquity so here I am.

carpe diem,
Mitch

[Reuelos]

Hi! I'm Reuel. I'm graduating in greek at São Paulo University - Brazil and I'm really enjoying the course and the greek language. Recently I studied with professo Christophe Rico, and it made me want more greek in my life

I'm thinking about starting the latin course next year, but now my focus is on greek, and at the TPR approach.

Well.. that's me

[Philosophia]

Hey everyone I'm John. I'm really interested in learning Latin and eventually Greek. I'm self teaching because my school doesn't offer Latin or Greek. I plan to major in Classics when I graduate and go off to college and hopefully will be able to read and write fluently in Latin and be proficient in Greek by the time I graduate. If anyone has any advice for self teaching I would be really appreciative toward anyone trying to give me tips.

[Olbia]

Good afternoon.
I am Elizabeth Anne, aged 65, British by birth but French by marriage (since December 1970).
I learned Latin at school, and have kept an interest in it ever since. I started to teach myself ancient Greek after retirement ten years ago, and followed the beginners' course with the CNED (French national centre for distance learning). I also attended the summer school in ancient Greek (level 2) in Louvain la Neuve (Belgium) two years running (in 2011 and 2012).
I have now enrolled for the Diplôme d'Université at the University of Bordeaux by distance learning, for Latin and Greek, from September. If I can successfully complete the two-year course, I hope to enrol for a degree in Classics from September 2015. If I can manage that, I would have a degree in Classics by the time I am 71, and possibly a doctorate in ten years or so...