There are several Latin channels that claim to be for beginners but are not. I'm so happy to have found your channel. Gratias tibi ago, et serpentor morientur!
Too right. I won't name names, but there is a certain Scandinavian guy who titled one of the playlists on his YT channel 'Beginner Latin' and it was him just slowly reading excerpts from Cicero, Seneca, and some 17th century neo-Latin writers. Any true beginner seeing that would be overwhelmed and probably just give up Latin.
Thank you for your great work of contextualizing latin for modern use, especially for children. By the way by listening to these videos, as a native romance language (modern Latin) speaker (Spanish) I now kind of gather why classical Latin became obsolete, it really feels so rigid (at least in its reconstructed form) and lacking the musicality of modern forms such as Spanish, Italian, Portuguese or French or it could also be the case that in order for Latin to be much more palatable to modern use a form of pronounciation and grammar much closer to romance would be more useful,.
The lack of musicality is totally down to my own voice and not to the language here! I didn't speak any Romance language at the time of making this video, but I've recently (since December 2021) started learning Italian because I want to absorb more of the natural cadence of a Romance language and be able to speak Latin with some of that musicality. The other reason the Latin comes across as sounding stiff is because language teachers - myself included - are worried learners might struggle to understand what we're saying, so we subconsciously or consciously try to make the sounds pretty distinct. There are different feelings about whether this 'overly careful enunciation' is good or bad for comprehension in the long run, but it's not a black-and-white issue either way, and sometimes it's just hard not to over-pronounce things, particularly when you're working with young students.
Thank you! I've mostly picked up the accent from listening to a lot of Latin audio from better speakers than myself. A lot of them are also Italian speakers, so they add Italian intonation to Latin. I've just started learning Italian myself so I'll be able to do the same!
@@FoundinAntiquity, who would've guessed? In the last few days I started incorporating Italian listening into my daily life. I'm still at a very beginner level, but since I'm a native speaker of Portuguese I have an easy time understanding most of it. I'd love to know what resources you are using to learn this particularly charming language. As for myself, I like vlogs, especially the ones by Podcast Italiano, Lucrezia and channels of the like (there's nothing more effective for learning foreign languages than savouring enjoyable content, as I'm doing with your channel for Latin). There's also a lovely book for fans of Ørberg's LLPSI called L'Italiano Secondo Il Metodo Natura (which you can get for free on Archive, there's also recordings of most chapters by a native speaker here on youtube). Anyway, best of luck on your Italian learning path!
Grātiās! As a beginner, this video was very helpful. I've been walking around the house saying 'in sessōrium ingredior, ē culīnā ēgredior...'. I'll be showing this to my brothers. 'Deponent verbs' is a bit of a scary grammar-ism. Much better understood as 'verbs that look like this...'
Yes, absolutely. 'Deponent' sounds very scary, whereas in reality, they become pretty intuitive when you get used to their forms. The trouble is remembering which verbs are deponent and which verbs can form a true passive, but as long as you get used to how words are used and their meanings, it's not too hard.
Salvē ! Grātias tibī ago , pulchre pelliculae , Eo discere Lingua Latina volunt I'm sorry , if I ve maked some kind of a macarronic dialect , I'm so grateful to you , and wanna learn about Latin and Languages in general
I don't quite understand. If the past participle + a form of the verb esse creates the passive perfect tense, then how does the sentence: serpetor in agrum ingressus est." make sense?? The creeper was gone into the field????
Deponent verbs 'look' passive in their forms, but the verbal idea that they express is 'active' in English (but in the history of the form, deponents are kind of neither active nor passive in Latin, but a middle voice where the actor is also the recipient of the action). So 'ingressus est' means 'he entered' which you could think of as 'he moved himself into somewhere.'
I've seen a lot of videos of people speaking the "ph" as an "f". Should I do this or not? You appear to switch between doing that and not. So I figure you will probably know :D Thanks in advance.
The ph digraph comes from transcriptions of Greek words that contained the Greek letter φ. The aspirated p' sound is standard in Attic Greek, but by the time of the Roman Empire, Greeks were pronouncing it more like an f. There also would have been plenty of time in between where both sounds were produced by different people in different places or with different social status. I think the conservative p' sound is probably the most likely one for Cicero's times among learned Romans, but f becomes more and more likely pretty soon after, and especially among common speech. Because of this variation, it kinda makes sense for Latinists to accept both sounds.
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Love the effort you put into contextualizing the dialogue in minecraft!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the minecraft narrative context!
There are several Latin channels that claim to be for beginners but are not. I'm so happy to have found your channel. Gratias tibi ago, et serpentor morientur!
Thank you! I'm glad this stuff has been accessible and useful for you!
Too right. I won't name names, but there is a certain Scandinavian guy who titled one of the playlists on his YT channel 'Beginner Latin' and it was him just slowly reading excerpts from Cicero, Seneca, and some 17th century neo-Latin writers. Any true beginner seeing that would be overwhelmed and probably just give up Latin.
My 8 year old brothers have been enjoying your videos a lot! They request more fighting!
Thank you for your great work of contextualizing latin for modern use, especially for children. By the way by listening to these videos, as a native romance language (modern Latin) speaker (Spanish) I now kind of gather why classical Latin became obsolete, it really feels so rigid (at least in its reconstructed form) and lacking the musicality of modern forms such as Spanish, Italian, Portuguese or French or it could also be the case that in order for Latin to be much more palatable to modern use a form of pronounciation and grammar much closer to romance would be more useful,.
The lack of musicality is totally down to my own voice and not to the language here! I didn't speak any Romance language at the time of making this video, but I've recently (since December 2021) started learning Italian because I want to absorb more of the natural cadence of a Romance language and be able to speak Latin with some of that musicality.
The other reason the Latin comes across as sounding stiff is because language teachers - myself included - are worried learners might struggle to understand what we're saying, so we subconsciously or consciously try to make the sounds pretty distinct. There are different feelings about whether this 'overly careful enunciation' is good or bad for comprehension in the long run, but it's not a black-and-white issue either way, and sometimes it's just hard not to over-pronounce things, particularly when you're working with young students.
I love your intonation, sounds so authentic; wonder where you've taken it from.
Thank you! I've mostly picked up the accent from listening to a lot of Latin audio from better speakers than myself. A lot of them are also Italian speakers, so they add Italian intonation to Latin. I've just started learning Italian myself so I'll be able to do the same!
@@FoundinAntiquity, who would've guessed? In the last few days I started incorporating Italian listening into my daily life. I'm still at a very beginner level, but since I'm a native speaker of Portuguese I have an easy time understanding most of it.
I'd love to know what resources you are using to learn this particularly charming language. As for myself, I like vlogs, especially the ones by Podcast Italiano, Lucrezia and channels of the like (there's nothing more effective for learning foreign languages than savouring enjoyable content, as I'm doing with your channel for Latin).
There's also a lovely book for fans of Ørberg's LLPSI called L'Italiano Secondo Il Metodo Natura (which you can get for free on Archive, there's also recordings of most chapters by a native speaker here on youtube).
Anyway, best of luck on your Italian learning path!
Grātiās! As a beginner, this video was very helpful. I've been walking around the house saying 'in sessōrium ingredior, ē culīnā ēgredior...'. I'll be showing this to my brothers. 'Deponent verbs' is a bit of a scary grammar-ism. Much better understood as 'verbs that look like this...'
Yes, absolutely. 'Deponent' sounds very scary, whereas in reality, they become pretty intuitive when you get used to their forms. The trouble is remembering which verbs are deponent and which verbs can form a true passive, but as long as you get used to how words are used and their meanings, it's not too hard.
Salvē ! Grātias tibī ago , pulchre pelliculae , Eo discere Lingua Latina volunt
I'm sorry , if I ve maked some kind of a macarronic dialect , I'm so grateful to you , and wanna learn about Latin and Languages in general
Et nīl est! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and that it has been helpful on your languages journey!
Thanks Carla!👍
I don't quite understand. If the past participle + a form of the verb esse creates the passive perfect tense, then how does the sentence: serpetor in agrum ingressus est." make sense?? The creeper was gone into the field????
Deponent verbs 'look' passive in their forms, but the verbal idea that they express is 'active' in English (but in the history of the form, deponents are kind of neither active nor passive in Latin, but a middle voice where the actor is also the recipient of the action). So 'ingressus est' means 'he entered' which you could think of as 'he moved himself into somewhere.'
Wouldn't territa sum translate to "I was scared" as in someone performed the action of scaring me??
"I have been made terrified" = "I am currently terrified"
This is really great, useful teaching style
What’s the difference between “vaccae Christopherum secutae sunt” and “sequebantur”? Gratias.
Danke!
Gratias tibi ago!
I've seen a lot of videos of people speaking the "ph" as an "f". Should I do this or not? You appear to switch between doing that and not. So I figure you will probably know :D Thanks in advance.
The ph digraph comes from transcriptions of Greek words that contained the Greek letter φ. The aspirated p' sound is standard in Attic Greek, but by the time of the Roman Empire, Greeks were pronouncing it more like an f. There also would have been plenty of time in between where both sounds were produced by different people in different places or with different social status. I think the conservative p' sound is probably the most likely one for Cicero's times among learned Romans, but f becomes more and more likely pretty soon after, and especially among common speech. Because of this variation, it kinda makes sense for Latinists to accept both sounds.
@@FoundinAntiquity Thank you so much. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond on an older video ☺️
Gracias!
Optima schola :)
grātiās tibi agō!