Latin

[Akita Suggagaki]

That's right, the dead language.
I took two years of it in high school so for me it is a nostalgic thing. And I can fantasize about being a medieval monk chanting psalms. But I have no desire for TLM for some reason. I think when it comes to Mass, the language part gets in the way and can be mistaken for sacred mystery or something when in actuality the exoticness or mystery of it is simply not being as familiar with the language as with the vernacular.

So I continue to plug away at it and enjoy quotes from the stoics as well as Roman statesmen. But it is easy to bogged down in all the grammar.

Spanish is more fun and koine Greek more useful. Sanskrit look coolest. But I am lucky to gain proficiency in jus tone language other than my own.

I like Facebook learning Latin group. They usually have an airing of church v.s. classic Latin.

 

[chevyontheriver]

That's right, the dead language.
I took two years of it in high school so for me it is a nostalgic thing. And I can fantasize about being a medieval monk chanting psalms. But I have no desire for TLM for some reason. I think when it comes to Mass, the language part gets in the way and can be mistaken for sacred mystery or something when in actuality the exoticness or mystery of it is simply not being as familiar with the language as with the vernacular.

So I continue to plug away at it and enjoy quotes from the stoics as well as Roman statesmen. But it is easy to bogged down in all the grammar.

Spanish is more fun and koine Greek more useful. Sanskrit look coolest. But I am lucky to gain proficiency in jus tone language other than my own.

I like Facebook learning Latin group. They usually have an airing of church v.s. classic Latin.

One of the benefits of Latin is that it makes Greek easier. So many words are crazy similar. I was reading yesterday something Bruce Metzger, the famous Bible scholar, wrote about the various Indo-European languages and how many words are cognates with some very predictable changes. Latin will use a 'd' often where Greek uses a 'th'. Thus Greek 'theos becomes Latin 'deus'. So many other predictable changes, when figured out make Greek easy if you already know Latin. They were almost dialects with different alphabets.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

One of the benefits of Latin is that it makes Greek easier.

Spanish also. It seems SO Much easier than Latin.

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Thesaurus Precum Latinarum

Latin Prayer Book - Latin Prayers | Prayers in Latin | Praying Latin

Latin Prayers. A prayer book full of sacred Latin prayers containing the most powerful and popular prayers. Prayers in Latin with English translations.

www.prayinglatin.com

MyCatholicSource.com: Prayers in Latin (Prayers, Novenas & Hymns)

Prayers in Latin: Basic Latin Prayers & Other Prayers in Latin

www.mycatholicsource.com

Latin Vulgate Old Testament Bible - Genesis 1

Genesis Chapter 1. Biblia Sacra Vulgata. Latin Vulgate Bible with Douay-Rheims English Translation. Translated by St. Jerome Hieronymus

vulgate.org

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

Patrologia Latina - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Links to Latin Fathers