Tertia Septimana

This week students received their textbooks. They've had dictation twice and have already begun translating. Students can earn extra credit by submitting Living Latin, e.g. a picture of a book entitled Carpool Diem, followed by the phrase carpe diem, a translation of the same, and an example of the phrase used, or tweaked and used, in English. Extra credit may also be earned by posting specific comments or observations about what we've been doing in class to this blog. All readers of Eugapae Latina! should be reminded that we welcome guest speakers to our Latin class. Finally, you may hear some percussive accompaniment to the video clip -- we are contemplating performing an instrumental work featuring students with their Latin pens during International Week or perhaps at the Holiday Sing Along!

Secunda Septimana

Salvete! This week we used the rules for identifying derivatives when "translating" Carroll's JABBERWOCKY. We also learned about Gregorian Chant and its five tone mode and then applied logic and prior knowledge, particularly of modern Romance languages to translate a Pigorian Chant.

Prima Septimana

Did you know that there are no lower case letters in classical Latin? Or, that you've been mispronouncing J. Caesar's name your whole life -- you should be saying Kaiser (like the roll or Wilhelm!) But don't do it with manducabulla in your mouth!On a more serious note, the Latin that we're learning dates from approximately 500 b.c.e. Latin is an inflected language. Word endings tell you what parts of speech they are and their function in a sentence. 60% of English is derived from Latin. We learned to recognize derivatives using three clues. Orthography -- similar spelling. Homophony -- similar sounding. And, the most important one, shared meaning.REMEMBER... Carp Diem! Carpool Diem! Latina vivit!

Salvete discipuli! When in Rome, "Wear your sandals." Spectate, audite nunc dicite, agite, legite et scribete.