<p>sevitagen, I'm doing Latin Lit this year too! :] Catullus and Ovid for us.
And I also read Edith Hamilton's Mythology to prep, and also read Ovid's Metamorphoses in English to get the feel for his stuff. :]</p>
<p>edit - tubachick, I'm kind of self-studying, there are only 3 people in my Latin Lit "class" we're really just sitting in with the Latin III class and doing our own thing :</p>
<p>You have no idea about the trouble I went through to get that class to be offered. Usually we alternate between AP Latin Virgil and AP Latin Lit every year. Next year it was supposed to be Virgil, but since Lit isn't being offered after next year, I had to convince the schoolboard to do an emergency amendment to the curriculum to offer both classes. </p>
<p>But in the end, I won, and I guess that's what counts.</p>
<p>GO LATIN!</p>
<p>^YAY :] I'm glad you got it switched around. Plussss, at my school, I had to get them to do the Latin Lit/Vergil classes too! :D</p>
<p>This is my favorite Latin quote (from Ecce Romani III, lesson on indefinite adjectives, etc):</p>
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<p>SAY IT OUT LOUD! It's fun :)</p>
<p>and bonus points if you can translate (carnufex = rascal)</p>
<p>So, guys.</p>
<p>Just learned about the 4th principle part (/perfect passive participle) of coire.</p>
<p>Lolololol poseur.... wow.</p>
<p>edit - Oh and update on my AP Latin Lit class - we're down to 2 people, including ME. Lololol. Awkward...</p>
<p>Omgggg... hahaha. What's the other person like?</p>
<p>Also, my bf's away message was "4th participle part of coire"... and his friend IMed him, "Defututus es?"</p>
<p>BAHAHAHHAHAH defututus is like my most favorite Latin word! :] Along with, um.. urgh I'm going to have to look it up now.. I'll post it in a bit, if I remember. Lol. It makes me giggle though :] [edit - MINCTURIO!!!!!] I also like ululaverunt and ululans and all the parts of that word.. lololol. Ohh Latin.</p>
<p>Oh well the only other person is this guy that I'm good friends with, BUT that's bad, because all we do is talk and giggle and whatnot the whole time instead of learning.. lolol. And then if one of us is absent, it's just the OTHER one with the teacher and that's just weird.... AND we can NOT slack off in there! If we ever don't have our lines prepared it's not like you can just... duck your head and pretend like you're not there.. because you're 50% of the people there! Baha.</p>
<p>Horrible waste of a bump. On Latin? ...;)</p>
<p>My latin class is killing me this year. Are teacher has bumped up the work load and how strict he is. </p>
<p>I can't keep up lol. GOod thing he's nice.</p>
<p>Since I don't think I asked this earlier, how much more difficult is Latin to learn than other European Romance languages such as French or Spanish?</p>
<p>I'm not actually a fan of the language but I do know a bunch of phrases in it... mostly the fallacies, but also a number of the "cool/famous" utterances as well (mainly the legal/philosophical ones).</p>
<p>inveniam, i know the feeling...my latin class has 6....and 3 routinely do not do their work-to the point that there's only three of us that he asks for translations!</p>
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<p>agreed. our class is down to 11 people (technically not allowed to happen at our school)</p>
<p>Lol, it's like.. having 2 people is exponentially worse than 3.. haha. I didn't think it could be worse.
Uhhhh doomster, like you know enough about Latin to say that you don't like the language... Latin is rad :]</p>
<p>amciw - I dunno but I think Latin is quite easy.. lol. I haven't bothered seriously studying other things like that, but they're UBBBBBBBBBBER easy to pick up now that I have a Latin base.</p>
<p>Our school just got back Latin III this year and we're the first class to have it in about 30 years. It's been pretty good so far. The class is only about 10 kids, which is okay considering we do get a lot done. We're working out of the Oxford Latin III book which has been pretty nice also. We're hoping for Latin IV next year, but unfortunately half of our Latin III class are seniors, so that leaves only 5 of us plus about 3 others. (It would be an alternating III/IV class depending on the year, so juniors and seniors would be together) I'm not holding my breath for it, but it would be nice.</p>
<p>LLLLlllllloool i just went and read toward the beginning of this thread, and that whole bit about "delenda" almost made my die....</p>
<p>My favorite part of Latin (at least one part) is all the etymology and how it relates to spanish and english.</p>
<p>The first phrase I learned was Noli me tangere, lol</p>
<p>My poor Latin teacher is the only one in our school. He is extremely nice, though some of us take advantage of him (which is pretty bad considering there's only 10 of us). He teaches up to Latin V, which means those who do take it over the summer. He also writes really good recommendation letters, which is good considering I will have him for 4 years.</p>
<p>Sadly, Latin is dying at my school. Right now, I'm a 4th year Latin student in class with three 3rd year students, and that's the entirity of my high school's Latin program. I enjoy the tiny class, but it would be nice to have another 4th year so that I could figure out if I'm mistranslating Catullus or if he really is just being nonsensical. </p>
<p>Though Catullus drives me crazy (It's amazing how someone so dead can incite so much frustration), he has provided me with one of my favorite Latin passages. It's not quoteable so much a piquent: "O dulces comitum valete coetus / longe quos simul a domo profectos / diversae varie viae reportant" (46). It translates something like "Goodbye, sweet company of comrades, who, leaving distant home together, return by different routes apart."</p>
<p>I'm studying AP Latin Lit informally since my teacher isn't AP-qualified. I think my teacher wants to go Horace, but what do you all think is the easiest writer to put on the other side of Catullus?</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm doing an informal AP Latin Lit class as well, since my teacher also failed to get qualified to teach AP.. uawlefkw. Lol. We're doing Catullus and Ovid, which I think is at least a fairly good idea. You get to go through Metamorphoses and his Amores, which I think is more interesting than Horace's Odes.</p>