<p>Latin delenda est.</p>
<p>crap, I can't remember my vocab anymore. What is delenda? </p>
<p>Uhg.</p>
<p>I'm going to die this year in Latin, which takes a lot of talent at my school. I wish they'd put the term honors on it so kids who have no intrest in a "challenging" class won't sign up. </p>
<p>Does that make me sound shallow?</p>
<p>^ No, tubachick, it doesn't sound shallow. I know what you mean. Last year when I took marine science, there were two other people who had higher than a 2.5 gpa. It was full of people who wanted to get out of taking chemistry and thought it would be a simple class (it started out as a class of 30, ended as a class of 12).</p>
<p>That wounds like waht would happen at my school, but I have yet to take any science electives, so I can't say for sure.</p>
<p>That is what happened the first two weeks of Latin, (although some of the kids that should have dropped didn't. One didn't know what a noun was.) and the first two weeks of debate. This year should be twice as worse with debate because of the class enrollment set up. (In other words, the school councelors aren't lying to the freshman this year about not being able to join debate until you're a sophomore because they don't want to set up the schedules.)</p>
<p>Ah I've taken latin for 5 years, going on 6 next year and we're doing vergil for senior year! </p>
<p>I absolutely love the logic of it...and all of its grammar craziness. I think I learned Puella and Puer as the first few things.
My favorite latin phrases are Sona si Linquam Latinam (my shirt! from winning schoolwide latin contest) and on a more serious note, Non ducor duco, because it's my personal philosophy</p>
<p>Delenda= Deleted? Just a guess. I don't really know. </p>
<p>I took 3 years of Latin and never even bother to study. So my Latin vocab after 3 years is the same amount as a 1st year, probably.</p>
<p>Ok, I don't really belong in this thread. I am not really a Latin lover.</p>
<p>How did you manage 6? Did you take it in junior high/middle school?</p>
<p>Ehh, that stinks. Good luck dealing with them :P</p>
<p>I've already taken five sciences, I'm doing my sixth online, and then I'm taking Forensics and AP Bio this year (I'm a rising junior).</p>
<p>delenda = pleased</p>
<p>middle school only had latin; but then i had to start from Latin I because my school only has one latin teacher/no latin 5. </p>
<p>i agree...it's really depressing to be in a class of people trying to get out of spanish and regularly getting 30's and 5-6 people getting 90s+ ...both sides of the class want to get out! the lower kids hate us for wrecking the curve; we hate doing everything SO SLOW...next year is just honors tho</p>
<p>I took one in middle school, then I took two my freshman year (Agriscience and Bio Honors), my sophomore year I took marine bio and chemistry honors, and now I'm taking Physics honors. (Thankfully my school hasn't yet dropped many of the science classes :D)</p>
<p>That's why I love taking Latin online, I can work as fast as I want to. (I've spent over 12 hours in one day working on my latin course :P)</p>
<p>I wish my school offered Latin :'(</p>
<p>^ OOoooh. </p>
<p>Latin was horrible the first couple of weeks this past year.</p>
<p>Yes, I know what a noun is.
Yes, I know what a verb is.
Yes, I know what a preposition is.</p>
<p>I was finishing my homework in class as the teacher talked. (He has a rule that you can do the work as he teachers, as long as you know the material, if you don't know the material, do it anyways as he talks and you end up needing help, you don't get it from him.) everyone in class was puzzled by how quick I was. It was really annoying.</p>
<p>I absolutely love the language. So logical.</p>
<p>yes.. i know about those endless noun/verb questions...except it gets a little sad when 2-3 people ask the day before your Latin III final what a verb is <em>actually</em></p>
<p>^ Wow. </p>
<p>Most of the students at my school drop out by year II. I think my teacher says he keeps about a fourth of the original students. Third year he keeps about an eighth of the original and then IV year there's only one or two students that just join the third years.</p>
<p>Haha, I don't have to deal with that. At the beginning of each of my Latin classes, they have worksheets like that and lessons for what nouns/verbs/pronouns/etc are, but you can skip the lessons and just do the five minute assignments that go with them if you already know it.</p>
<p>Only thing I don't like is FLVS doesn't offer any Latin AP's or Latin IV. They stop at Latin III. It's still more Latin than I would've learned at my school though.</p>
<p>My school does't offer AP Latin(s). I think I'll self study both. My teacher isn't qualified enough to teach it. I'm so mad at him too. :(</p>
<p>I give him crap all the time...</p>
<p>yeah my school is a bit ridiculous and doesn't let anyone drop. trust me, my class would be down to about 7 right now, and would have been since about the fourth week of Latin I.</p>
<p>I'm also going to lobby my school to get a Latin IV AP...because we do the vergil syllabus anyway...it's REALLY stupid. </p>
<p>and if you're wondering, my teacher is actually great, but people just don't study at all...</p>
<p>How hard do you think it'll be to self-study for APs after 3 years of Latin?</p>