Hi all (esp:lucus eques)
i got traupman as you recommended a few months ago.unfortunately i am having problems with grammer right from the first chapter.should i try to learn the phrases by rote or should i post my problems here?l&s isn’t available at the moment.id like to start talking but i’ll have to upgrade to broadband and sort out some other technical problems before skype becomes possible.are the traupman cd’s any use?at this stage (2 1/4 years)id like to put my theory knowledge into practise.
little flower
Salve,
Have you not completed a course like Lingua Latina?
hi lucus
i am at the beginning stage of orberg (i.e.dowling) it seems to me that the more progress i have made in grammer and vocabulary the easier orberg will be.its a chicken and egg scenario.one needs traupman for orberg and vice versa.when we were young we learned to speak before reading and writing.maybe its the same now?perhaps if i spend 4 hours a week for 6 months you can then set up skype for basic conversation.?
little flower
Definitely, Flower. I think LL will be of most aid to you. Traupman is a logical next step after finishing the first volume of LL.
hi lucus
page 1 of traupman.why is ‘how is (your family) doing at home’ ut valetur domi tuae?why is it passive?thanks.
little flower
It’s essentially idiomatic, and there’s no subject in there, just DOMI TUAE, “at home.”
Salvete, Floscula Luceque,
“Ut valetur” seems to be pretty uncommon, according to Lewis & Short (and Oxford Latin Dictionary). My edition of Traupman (2004) replaces it with “Marius: Ut valet familia tua? Julia: Omnes domi bene se habent.”
Dictionarium L&S dicit “Ut valetur” non vulgaris esse. Editio Traupmanis mea (2004) “Marius: Ut valet familia tua? Julia: Omnes domi bene se habent.” pro eo supplet.
My edition of Traupman (2004)
I had an older edition. Well, I still have the book but I have apparently lost the tapes that went with the book. Recently at Borders I looked through the new edition (2004). At the back, the CDs to accompany the book were advertised separately. As I recall, the tapes with the earlier edition only went through the first 10 lessons. However that may be, can anyone inform me about the CDs that accompany the new edition? Are all the lessons recorded? And, I wonder if by any chance the recordings on the CDs are MP3s?
I believe there is an even newer edition 2006 or 2007, with an additional chapter on religious topics? The 2004 edition, which I also own, is labelled the 4th edition while Amazon is currently selling the fifth.