How much do you study?

Just wondering how much you study Latin on a daily/weekly basis.

i’m a slacker… i don’t get into the books every day. however, i am hoping to change that as of this week, since i’m adjusting work schedules and stuff… we’ll see how it goes. life is crazy.

with that said, in my first year of greek i did 1-2 hours per day, and i think those kinds of numbers are much more effective, especially in the beginning stages of a language.

I hardly ever study when I’m not in school… like right now. When I do have my Latin class I end up doing about 1-2 hours a day just for it, until I run out and get sad and mopey for the rest of the week :cry:

run out of homework? i’m sure there must be extra stuff you could do if you REALLY want to. :stuck_out_tongue:

in college i managed to get a pulp mill job for the summer, which means that i basically sat around for long shifts. i would take my greek and study… it kept me awake all night. in a 12 hour shift i could learn a lot!

now i’m not a student and my work leaves me drained, so i don’t do a lot…

I just do odd bits in quiet spells at work. And sometimes on the way to and from. Does looking through TEXTKIT posts count? ;D

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I just do odd bits in quiet spells at work. And sometimes on the way to and from. Does looking through TEXTKIT posts count? ;D
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How freaky! That would be my answer as well. I sneak it in during work (shh! don’t tell my boss :wink: ) and also on my way to/from work. I also try to do some in the evening but I’m usually too tired, as you can see from some of my late night posts. And I also find myself spending so much time reading through stuff here on Textkit that it takes away from actual study time! What should I do?? Need more time…

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Ah, what luxury it must be to have the summer off. But given your love of Latin, why not do a Hermione Granger and get a jump start on next year’s Latin course?

Less than half an hour at the moment (but at other times more than four hours a day) & that’s reading Harrius Potter. Then again, I’m more a hellenist. I’ll try to start the same poll on the Greek side of the forum.

Vale.

Ptolemaios

About 2.5 hours a day including my hour of University. I’d really love to do more, but I don’t seem to get much time in the evenings since other languages and music seem to get in the way. :sunglasses:

Greek on the train to and from work and a bit of Harrius Potter in the evening. Weekends: mostly Plato’s Symposium in a deckchair by the pool.

I study about 2.5 hours, but on the weekend, I get into this “zone” or mindset where I become obsessed and reach about 5-6 hours.

1/2 our to 1 hour per day (sometimes 10-20 mins per day) usually at about 2am. I am a child; a slacker; I procrastinate semper.

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About 2.5 hours a day including my hour of University. I’d really love to do more, but I don’t seem to get much time in the evenings since other languages and music seem to get in the way. :sunglasses:
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Yes, music takes up a lot of my time so I have to be very strict with the available hours. I often study reading in bed at night or while I have breakfast as partner is NOT a morning person! When the music activity goes up (ie when I play in shows etc and need lots of rehearsal) then it all gets very tiring. At the moment I am trying to do arrangements for about 20 tunes so domestic stuff goes completely (ironing? what’s that?). At least it beats watching soaps on TV!

I picked 1-1.5 hours. It varies a lot, but I always spend at least half an hour.

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I hardly ever study when I’m not in school… like right now. When I do have my Latin class I end up doing about 1-2 hours a day just for it, until I run out and get sad and mopey for the rest of the week :cry:
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Sounds very familiar… When I was going to school full time, I had to put off doing my Old English homework to last so that I’d have a prayer of getting anything else done… Now I am sort of in “prep” and “I don’t want to lose this” mode, so am plowing through a book in Latin, which has helped so much that I was actually able to curl up with a second book in Latin, and read a few lines of it without the help of a dictionary! Kewl! Bedtime reading in Latin!

Kilmeny

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You do old English? Anglo Saxon stuff? :astonished:

I was almost going to learn Old English, I decided to put it off though.

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You do old English? Anglo Saxon stuff? :astonished:
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I haven’t for years… Like, since 1988… But I find that studying Latin provides very much the same enjoyment, so I can get totally lost in the language, thus ignoring other things that I probably should be doing… Like dishes, laundry, sleeping… Which means that the amount of study time I spend on the Latin varies wildly, but tends to increase when I’d rather not acknowledge a “real world” out there…

Kilmeny

That is quite awesome! With all those (excuse the lack of knowledge) queer letters such as the o thing with a spike curling off it! Is that ‘th’? And that strange p thing ???

þ and ð aren’t hard to remember! They just mean “th.”