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Introducing me ...
Salvete omnes,
I have been lurking on this list for quite some time although I haven't yet posted to it. I have been meaning to learn Latin for quite some time, but my laziness and busy work-schedule at college conspired to delay me thus far. Now, I hope to start in earnest and use the winter break to attain at least rudimetary proficiency in this noble language so that I can start reading something in order to keep my interest in the subject.
About me: I am a Physics major at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I am passionate about my Physics and Maths, in fact reading some works in the original latin, including Newton's Principia were probably my primary motivations to learn the language.
I have one question as to the best method to go about learning. I have got Benjamin D'Ooge's book from textkit's e-books collection and am following it. I have subscribed to the vocabulary tool and learnt quite a few words so that now I can more or less make some sense out of simple mottos and sayings. One problem is that I can recall the meaning of a latin word once I see it, but the converse I find much more difficult. Any tips on how to improve upon this?
I see that many of you are actually latin scholars at school/college, I suppose I would be slower in learning on account of that, so I hope you will bear with me.
I think I've already tested your patience enough with such a long post so I should probably end now.
Thanks a lot for your amazing resources, and I hope I can make use of these to learn Latin.
Bye
Shanth
I have been lurking on this list for quite some time although I haven't yet posted to it. I have been meaning to learn Latin for quite some time, but my laziness and busy work-schedule at college conspired to delay me thus far. Now, I hope to start in earnest and use the winter break to attain at least rudimetary proficiency in this noble language so that I can start reading something in order to keep my interest in the subject.
About me: I am a Physics major at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I am passionate about my Physics and Maths, in fact reading some works in the original latin, including Newton's Principia were probably my primary motivations to learn the language.
I have one question as to the best method to go about learning. I have got Benjamin D'Ooge's book from textkit's e-books collection and am following it. I have subscribed to the vocabulary tool and learnt quite a few words so that now I can more or less make some sense out of simple mottos and sayings. One problem is that I can recall the meaning of a latin word once I see it, but the converse I find much more difficult. Any tips on how to improve upon this?
I see that many of you are actually latin scholars at school/college, I suppose I would be slower in learning on account of that, so I hope you will bear with me.
I think I've already tested your patience enough with such a long post so I should probably end now.
Thanks a lot for your amazing resources, and I hope I can make use of these to learn Latin.
Bye
Shanth
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Thanks to you all for the welcome. Now comes the tough part, following through and actually study consistently through some stuff before I can get to the interesting stuff.
Cool! Nice to know that. Also, by the way how many from Asia/South-East-Asia? I suppose there would be a lot of Europeans on this forum. Is latin compulsory in school anywhere?Eureka wrote:There’re several physicists here. We also have a few Latinists too.
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It's pretty wierd to know so many physics guys are out here.mingshey wrote: ... in Asia. I am another physics major who likes to post this on the door.
BTW, I missed one item of your you may be a physics major if ... list :
Who/What is "MacGyver". So yay, I'm not such a geek after all, I did miss one item of your list, not to mention that I haven't yet put up the hard copy because my printer quota is over for this month.if you frequently whistle the theme song to "MacGyver."
Oh, that's a character called ``Junior'' from an online comic strip called One Over Zero. It's pretty interesting in a wierd sort of way.mingshey wrote:Nice avatar! An eyeball with fangs?
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There's this line there:installer_swan wrote: It's pretty wierd to know so many physics guys are out here.
BTW, I missed one item of your you may be a physics major if ... list :Who/What is "MacGyver". So yay, I'm not such a geek after all, I did miss one item of your list, not to mention that I haven't yet put up the hard copy because my printer quota is over for this month.if you frequently whistle the theme song to "MacGyver."
So you can call yourself a geek, if that can be an acronym for a phygeeks major.if you understood more than five of these indicators.
Forget about MacGuyver. He's another physics geek, or a loser who got himself hooked up in an espionage agency. But if you are still interested, you could find out quite a few amount of info about him just by typing 'macguyver' in google.
Just for your info, the theme song's here: http://timstvshowcase.com/macgyver.html -> http://www.kfcplainfield.com/sound/macgyver.mp3
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