Hello from Rome

Greetings,

My name is Massimiliano, I’m italian, and I live in Rome. I studied Latin and Greek for 5 years at school, but then I left them for a different line of work (i’m a software developer). Now I would like to go back to those marvellous langages in my spare time. I found Textkit by googling the web for tutorials, books and help.
I’m following no regular course, so I suppose I have to qualify myself as an “independent learner”…
I apologize since now about my mistakes in english.

Nice to meet you all !!

Max

hi :slight_smile: you’re lucky, your city has great classics bookstores, the top floor of herder has a great huge collection, and there’s lots of good 2nd-hand editions in the bookstore under the corso. good luck with it :slight_smile:

Welcome to Textkit!

If you haven’t already discovered them, these are a couple sites you’ll probably find useful:

http://www.perseus.org/
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/Woodhouse/


Which Greek authors are you most interested in reading?


~Nicholas

PS. Your English is very good.

Welcome, Massimiliano :smiley:

Your English is fine. You speak better than plenty of natives!

Great links..thank you.

Which Greek authors are you most interested in reading?

Alas :frowning: …in my dreams i would like to become so smart to read the works of Homer, Plato, Thucydides, Aristotle :laughing: …but I’ consider myself very lucky if I’ll ever get to read Aesopus :wink:

Max

Thank you very much :wink:

Max

Those are my dreams as well… In fact, it is a secret desire to be able to recite the first book of the iliad from memory. :slight_smile: Read the “which dialect should I learn” sticky post somewhere around the forums, and get a pharr book.

I’d start with Homeric first, the source material is very desireable to learn and the practice sentences are something like “The son of Atreus, king of men, insulted Chryses the priest which angered Apollo who then kindled a plague up through the Achaean army, and the people kept perishing.” I mean, come on, that is awesome. :slight_smile:

17 weeks ago, I didn’t know homeric greek, now, I can translate the first ten lines of the liliad and have high confidence I did it correctly. It was only 4 months of time to get this far spending about an hour or two a day on the topic. The pleasure of understanding the language far out weighs the tiny time investment, at least for me.

Yes, and it would be just the thing to chant (in Greek) at the neighbours when they keep you awake at 3 am with a noisy party. :laughing:

Ciao Massimiliano,
Welcome to the forum. I think that this forum iand the available resources are very good.
I like a lot the composition textbooks, hard to find nowadays.

A presto
Misopogon

Benvenuto, Massimiliano!

Anch’io sono in Italia, però io sono un americano, e studio latino e greco qui all’Università di Firenze questo semestre. Per ripassare bene il latino e anche arrivare ad un punto esperto sulla lingua, ti consiglio questo libro:

http://www.lingua-latina.dk/

È incredible; a causa di questo scrivo meglio in latino che italiano. :stuck_out_tongue: Anche ho comprato un libro simile che si chiama “Athenaze” che insegna per mezzo del “metodo diretto,” soltanto in greco (eccetto qualche spiegazioni in italiano), ma non l’ho ricevuto ancora; se mi piace ti dico.

Ho viaggiato a Roma soltanto dieci giorni fa, e ho passato tutto il giorno in foro. Che meraviglia! Per voi, specialmente i romani, il foro e le cose romane antiche sono una parte (spesso fondamentale) della città; ma per un americano, nato un mare dalle radici, è tremendo vedere queste cose! tali meraviglie, quelli edifici vecchissimi, questi posti che anche narrano le sue storie che sono le vere fondamenta della cultura occidentale, internazionale, fino al mio paese, e oltre. Insomma, sono molto appassionato di Roma e Italia. :slight_smile:

Saluti, Thomas! Tutto bene da te?

Your Italian is really excellent!!!

Thank you for your advices. Googling the web, I found mny comments about “Athenaze” and “Lingua latina per se illustrata”. I think I’ll buy those books to use them with the ones suggested by textkit

If you too are using these books we could arrange to work on the same subjects via the forum…

Max

Certo, amico! oppure, avvoglia! come questi pazzi fiorentini dicono. :stuck_out_tongue: (E sei troppo gentile; grazie lo stesso per il complimento.) E sì, io ho finito il primo libro di Lingua Latina (sto per finire il secondo), ma ho cominciato proprio oggi l’Athenaze; mi farebbe molto piacere aiutare, però, se ne hai delle domande che riguardano Lingua Latina.

Poiché tempo questi giorni impegnatissimi è sempre una lussuria, non trovo spesso occasione per frequentare (come dire? ‘di frequentare?’) Textkit; quindi mi puoi spedire una email se ce l’hai una domanda che vuoi chiedere specificamente (o generalmente) a me: lar2@lehigh.edu.

Ciao! buon lavoro!

LV·EQ

Welcome to Textkit!

Your English is fine… it’s certainly better than my Italian. :wink: