I have been learning Latin for almost one year by myself. My vocabulary is intermediate (unfortunately not good enough to fully understand Cicero, Vergil or Seneca) and I think I have mastered most of the grammar.
Are there any advice, texts or resources (preferably available online) you can give me to help me to go on studying Latin and get a better vocabulary?
Also, read Ritchie’s Fabulae Faciles (the Gutenberg edition has nice notes), Lhomond’s Epitome and De Viris. That will give enough for Caesar and Cicero’s speeches.
Gratias tibia ago exercitio responsoque tuo, bedwere.
Estne nunc certus? certe cotidie meliorem in lingua latina fieri conor.
Exercitii responsum (ignoro si hoc vocabular certus est):
Ego conor melorem in lingua latina fieri.
Tu conaris meliorem in lingua latina fieri.
Is/ea/id conatur meliorem in lingua latina fieri.
Nos conamur meliores in lingua latina fieri.
Vos conamini meliores in lingua latina fieri.
Ii/eae/ea conantur meliores in lingua latina fieri.
Fortasse quidcumque erratus est, me corrige si potes.
There’s no reason for it to be accusative.
melior sum
melior fio
melior fieri possum/volo/conor
but
te meliorem fieri volo/dico.
With e.g. scio you’d use acc.&inf., me meliorem fieri scio I know I’m improving, but not with conor, which does not introduce indirect speech.
Confusing, I know. And it’s not a good construction. Safer to use e.g. tento.