phil and I are officially halfway through wheelock, about to start chapter 21! I believe that is one semester’s worth.
I am celebrating with m&ms.
Woohoo! Congratulations to both of you. Are you both working through Wheelock together? Or did you both arrive at Chapter 21 independently?
I will celebrate with you both by cracking into a pint of Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake ice cream. I’ll use any excuse to open a pint… 
chocolate cheesecake icecream! now I know what to ask for christmas from my mom. meanwhile, I’ll be right over so save me some! lol
we have been working at the same pace and working through some of the rough spots together via email… so it is very good. he keeps me motivated and diligent where I would otherwise slack
and vice versa!
I think it’s great how you help each other and help keep each other on track.
yes, it’s very helpful to have someone in the same place as me. usually if one of us can’t figure out a sentence, the other can. i highly recommend everyone getting a study partner if possible
Congrats to both of you! On your behalf I have cracked open my rolo icecream leaving me with 12 boxes of kraft dinnner and applejuice left.
It’s so fun to have everyone celebrating along with us
That’s probably more than most people do in a semester (although my friend did 28, but his teacher is a psycho). In your honor, I am downloading Smyth’s Greek Grammar ;D
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Yes, it certainly sounds like a good idea. I know we also have people working through Benjamin L. D’Ooge’s Latin for Beginners and others working through Moreland and Fleischer’s Latin: An Intensive Course.
Holler if you’re working through or beginning Moreland and Fleischer’s Latin: An Intensive Course. I’ve just started Unit 3. I know some of you (Bingley comes to mind) are more advanced in this M&F book; perhaps you guys should also find study partners closer to your level.
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That definitely sounds like a college student’s kitchen. The only thing missing is a dozen packets of instant ramen! ;D
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… and I’ve just finished baking an Apple & Pear Tarte Tatin! Gotta make sure I do my “fruit” group…
Congratulations, Klewlis and Phil! In your honor, I shall eat a package of instant Ramen noodles.
Is any one else studying in the 11th lesson of Latin for Beginners? I am working through that chapter today. (I should be doing 12 tomorrow, 13 the day after, etc., if nothing comes up, so anywhere around the 11th lesson would work.)
I don’t know which lesson I be studying!
I can not read Roman Numerals! Such is my great lack of knowledge and abundance of ignorance!
doesn’t dooge teach you roman numerals??
D’Ooge shows you how to spell out the cardinal and ordinal numbers. But he doesn’t show you what the abbrevitations(?) are : I, II, III, X, XV, XX, L, LXXX, etc.
Probably he figured that you already knew them from your daily life. I learned mine from my math book; I hate the thing, but it’s a good book.
I is one; II is two, and III is three. V is five, and IV (one less than five) is four. VI (one more than five) is six, VII is seven, and VIII is eight. X is ten; IX (one less than ten) is nine. XI is eleven. L is fifty; XL is ten less than fifty, or forty, and LX is ten more than fifty, or sixty. So, XXXIV is thirty-four; LXXII is seventy-two, and so on. LXXX is eighty, C is one hundred, and XC is ninety. It’s quite complicated at times, but you’ll want to learn, I’m sure, since you love Latin so much.
Where are you up to in letters?
Episcopus, take a look at this webpage. Theres a nice Roman Numeral Table on it which should help you figure out what lesson number you’re on…
http://www.yourdictionary.com/crossword/romanums.html<br />
Actually, 4 is IIII, thank you very much! IV was popularized much later on, by the church I believe. Remember that these are tally marks based supposedly on the fingers, and we certainly do have 4 fingers to hold up. It is only when we get past 10 that was have to deal with subtracting tallies (i.e. XC). I have heard that part of the reason they avoided IV was also because those characters were reserved for Jupiter (IVS+PITER = IVPPITER), though I cannot attest to the credibility on that.